Principal Architect, Solutions

$164,700 - $222,800/Yr

T-Mobile - Frisco, TX

Full-time - Senior

Frisco, TX

Telecommunications

About the position

At T-Mobile, we invest in YOU! Our Total Rewards Package ensures that employees get the same big love we give our customers. All team members receive a competitive base salary and compensation package - this is Total Rewards. Employees enjoy multiple wealth-building opportunities through our annual stock grant, employee stock purchase plan, 401(k), and access to free, year-round money coaches. That's how we're UNSTOPPABLE for our employees! We are looking for a Principal Architect who can lead the design and implementation of large cross-platform solutions to enable and optimize our digital marketing strategies. The Principal Architect leverages their deep understanding of digital marketing to develop innovative solutions and strategies to align overall solution architecture to the digital marketing strategy. They will contribute to digital marketing strategies by using best practices and integrating data and services from multiple internal and external sources to ensure that marketing campaigns and solutions are optimized and fine-tuned to provide data driven insights.

Responsibilities

• Owns solution design for multiple cross domain initiatives and works across domains to ensure cohesive solution.
• Reviews and identifies the gaps in the architecture and solution designs, assesses and defines remediation efforts or mitigation options.
• Drives to practical solutions considering all teams, initiatives and long-term outlook.
• Makes and implements complex decisions aimed at improving the quality, effectiveness or ability to achieve revenue, profitability and strategic goals for the organization.
• Lead the overall technical design and end-to-end solution design for assigned initiatives.
• Ensures quality, consistency and alignment of designs to TMUS standards and digital strategy.
• Leads large cross domain initiatives that are supported by E2E Design, E2E Arch applies digital standards to project Solution Architecture, drives Technical Strategy and architectural tradeoff discussions.
• Leads the technical design process for applicable cross domain initiatives.
• Accomplishes organization goals by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; explores opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.
• Balances constraints in IT, business, delivery to deliver optimal architecture for an initiative.
• Leads design orchestration on large-sized initiatives or work streams.
• Provides input into the definition of Digital Architecture standards as they are created.
• Owns technical solution on cross domain initiatives. Develops innovative solutions and technology strategy.
• Support the definition and adoption of common software development processes.
• Prepares and maintains design deliverables that include architecture diagrams, data models, and API / micro-service architecture.
• Enforces design process standards on assigned initiatives.
• Writes advanced documentation, architecture, capabilities, limitations, and advantages for technologies.
• Produces advanced documentation and literature for multiple disciplines.
• Clearly describes architecture, design strategies, standards, technical specifications, business benefits, opportunities and threats.
• Routinely creates and presents executive and external materials, including white papers.
• Actively contributes to industry publications and professional forums.
• Interacts with Senior management to shape and align solutions against desired minimum viable product scope.
• Applies a broad understanding of the products, systems and technologies across the business portfolio and deep technical ability on integration of these components to deliver a cohesive E2E solution architecture for a given initiative.
• Translates business requirements into technical requirements that the system analysts and other technical team members drive into the project design and delivery.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree In lieu of Bachelor's degree, equivalent industry experience may be considered.
• 7-10 years Related work experience.
• 7-10 years Progressive experience in software engineering/enterprise architecture/technology leadership across multiple products, systems and/or platforms coupled with strong business acumen and executive presence.
• 7-10 years Experience working in solutions design and enterprise architecture delivering IT solutions.
• 7-10 years Experience in Enterprise applications, PLM, middle-tier services, database, storage, distributed computing, virtualization and/or application technology.

Nice-to-haves

• 7-10 years Experience designing and/or implementing solutions for any of the following: Web Content Management, Personalization, Customer Data Platforms, Rich internet applications, Web & Social Analytics, Marketing Automation, Online Ad targeting.
• Experience in designing solutions involving Adobe Solutions such as: Adobe Analytics, Target, Adobe Journey Optimizer, Adobe Experience Platform, Campaign, etc.
• Knowledge of current digital marketing trends and best practices on topics such as personalization, cross channel marketing, data driven optimization of experience, real-time data integrations.
• Certification in Adobe Experience Platform or related technologies.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary and compensation package.
• Annual stock grant.
• Employee stock purchase plan.
• 401(k).
• Access to free, year-round money coaches.
• Medical, dental and vision insurance.
• Flexible spending account.
• Paid time off and up to 12 paid holidays.
• Paid parental and family leave.
• Family building benefits.
• Back-up care.
• Enhanced family support.
• Childcare subsidy.
• Tuition assistance.
• Short- and long-term disability.
• Voluntary AD&D coverage.
• Voluntary accident coverage.
• Voluntary life insurance.
• Voluntary disability insurance.
• Voluntary long-term care insurance.
• Mobile service & home internet discounts.
• Pet insurance.
• Access to commuter and transit programs.