Solutions Architect - Marketing

GAF Materials Corporation - Wichita, KS

Full-time - Mid Level

Wichita, KS

Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing

About the position

As a Marketing Website Solution Architect at GAF, you will play a pivotal role in architecting, designing, and developing comprehensive website solutions that align with our marketing needs and contribute to the overall success of a given marketing portfolio. This position requires collaboration with key stakeholders, including project managers, business analysts, and product managers, to create solutions that adhere to architecture principles, leverage common solutions and services, and deliver tangible business value. You will be responsible for transforming business requirements into scalable and manageable solutions, crafting comprehensive solution architectures, and ensuring that the solutions meet business requirements while optimizing performance and ensuring scalability. In this role, you will evaluate and select marketing technology solutions, assess various technology options, create proof of concepts (POC), and select the most appropriate solutions for specific business needs. You will oversee the implementation of designed solutions, ensuring adherence to enterprise architectural principles and quality standards. Providing technical expertise and guidance will be a key part of your responsibilities, as you will share your knowledge with development teams, foster collaboration, and ensure project success. Additionally, you will monitor and optimize website performance, continuously identifying areas for improvement and optimizing resource utilization. Innovation and continuous improvement are at the heart of this role. You will advocate for new technologies and strategies to enhance website solutions and meet evolving business needs. Your ability to communicate complex concepts to non-technical stakeholders will be essential, as will your understanding of cloud computing and data integration in a hybrid cloud environment. With a focus on professional growth and development, you will have the opportunity to contribute to a dynamic team that is committed to protecting what matters most.

Responsibilities

• Transform business requirements into scalable and manageable solutions and design specifications.
• Craft comprehensive solution architectures that meet business requirements, optimize performance and ensure scalability.
• Evaluate and select marketing technology solutions, assess various technology options, create POC and select the most appropriate solutions for specific business needs.
• Oversee Solution Implementation of designed solutions, ensuring adherence to enterprise architectural principles and quality standards.
• Provide technical expertise and guidance, share technical expertise and guidance with development teams, foster collaboration, and ensure project success.
• Monitor and optimize website performance, continuously monitor the performance of implemented solutions, identifying areas for improvement and optimizing resource utilization.
• Champion Innovation and continuous improvement, advocate for innovation and continuous improvement, propose new technologies and strategies to enhance websites solutions and meet evolving business needs.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or other related field.
• 7+ years of experience in Websites or e-commerce architecture with hands-on experience.
• 10+ years of industry experience providing technical solutions development for enterprise software or hosted high-tech services using frontend & backend technology stack, SEO and Azure cloud services offering.
• Strong hands-on experience with Sitecore CMS, Magento E-commerce, .NET core, .Net frameworks, SQL server, MongoDB, C#, Azure cloud services, Kubernetes, Dockers, CDN, Microservices & Event-Driven Architecture.
• Expert knowledge of ASP.NET Core, MVC, Web API, JavaScript, JQuery, Python, Google Analytics, Azure artificial intelligence platforms and Mobile application development (Xamerin, ReactNative and iOS Native).
• Knowledge of Social Media, GCP cloud offerings, Test-driven development DevOps, and CI/CD.
• Exceptional communication skills, capable of conveying complex concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Understanding of cloud computing and data integration in a hybrid cloud environment. Advanced marketing data integration experience with industry-standard integration products.

Nice-to-haves

• Professional web development certifications or similar are advantageous.
• Excellent verbal and written communication and problem-solving skills.
• Good ability to define multiple solution options to business problems.
• Excellent ability to work on multiple projects concurrently.
• Strong ability to understand the long-term ('big picture') and short-term perspectives of situations.

Benefits

• A wide range of health insurance options including medical, dental, and vision for you and your family.
• Family-Building benefits supporting various journeys to fertility and parenthood.
• Robust 401K plan with employer match contribution.
• Wellness program, free financial coaching, referral program, and product rebates for employees' primary residence.
• Internal training programs and courses, as well as a generous tuition reimbursement program.
• Diversity and inclusion initiatives through Employee Resource Groups.