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Principal Engineer Architect for Integration Engineering and Security

Advantage Solutions Inc

  • Chicago, IL
  • 21 days ago

    Highlights

    Business domain expertise, such as retail, consumer packaged goods, field workforce management, services company service delivery, and revenue management. This includes: Have experience in technology and processes such as sales/customer relationship management, category management, retail execution, and field workforce management.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationChicago, IL
    IndustryBusiness Services - Other
    Company Size10,000 employees or more
    Year Founded1987
    Websitehttp://www.advantagesolutions.net/

    Description

    Architect for Integration, Engineering & Security

    Responsibilities

    • Enterprise integration architecture: Own the architectural direction for the enterprise applications across application portfolios and their business units. This includes:

    • Architecture for both custom-built applications and technology platforms

    • Support software selection decisions

    • Define architecture patterns

    • Ensure architecture achieves information security requirements

    • Work alongside engineering teams and product teams as an active, embedded partner in delivery

    • Enterprise plan platform and AI architecture: Design the end-to-end data flows between commercial and corporate systems and the data and analytics / AI platform. This includes:

    • Define flows of business operational data for analytics and management reporting and surfacing analytics data into company applications

    • Ensure business systems are designed to support emerging AI use cases

    • Define integration patterns for data that keep client and company data secure

    • Architect the integration of external industry data sources into business applications

    • Integration of security practices and architecture into application delivery: Plan and shape integrations between systems that are secure by design. This includes:

    • Collaborate as peer with cybersecurity engineering teams

    • Jointly design patterns and delivery approaches for maximizing information security

    • Ensure coherent data and integration plans

    • Shape plans for phases of application change between parallel implementation programs

    • Architecture practice participation: Operate as an active member of the enterprise architecture practice. This includes:

    • Collaborate with peer architects across commercial systems, enterprise systems, data/AI, and infrastructure/security

    • Build, advocate, and participate in shared governance, architecture standards, and ways of working

    • Contribute to keeping the practice coherent and relevant as the organization"s technology agenda grows in complexity

    • Business domain expertise: Bring working knowledge of retail and consumer packaged goods business processes. This includes:

    • Have experience in technology and processes such as sales/customer relationship management, category management, retail execution, and field workforce management

    • Build credibility as a technology advisor to business stakeholders based on industry operational reality

    • Advise on building shared capability, reusability, and user experience within company applications

    Qualifications

    • Education Requirements: Bachelor"s degree
    • Experience Requirements: 10-12 years experience in relevant field
    • Travel requirement: No travel requirements

    Required Knowledge and Skills

    • Integration architecture between custom / technology platform applications and enterprise resource planning systems
    • Data design: Data flows, data model design, master data management principles, and AI technology affinity
    • Software selection, pattern definition, and product team partnership
    • Enterprise and / or deep solution architecture for custom and technology platform applications
    • Business domain expertise, such as retail, consumer packaged goods, field workforce management, services company service delivery, and revenue management

    Job Will Remain Open Until Filled

    About Company

    Advantage Solutions is a leading provider of outsourced sales and marketing solutions to consumer goods companies and retailers. Our data- and technology-driven services — which include headquarter sales, retail merchandising, in-store and online sampling, digital commerce, omnichannel marketing, retail media and others — help brands and retailers of all sizes get products into the hands of consumers, wherever they shop. As a trusted partner and problem solver, we help our clients sell more while spending less. Headquartered in Irvine, California, we have o!ces throughout North America and strategic investments in select markets throughout Africa, Asia, Australia and Europe through which we serve the global needs of multinational, regional and local manufacturers.

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