Solutions Architect - Marketing

GAF Materials Corporation - Chicago, IL

Full-time - Mid Level

Chicago, IL

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 and design specifications, formulating detailed work breakdown structures and related task-level information for incorporation into project schedules. In this role, you will craft comprehensive solution architectures that meet business requirements, optimize performance, and ensure scalability. 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. Overseeing the solution implementation of designed solutions will be a key responsibility, ensuring adherence to enterprise architectural principles and quality standards. You will provide technical expertise and guidance, sharing your knowledge with development teams, fostering collaboration, and ensuring project success. Monitoring and optimizing website performance will be crucial, as you continuously assess the performance of implemented solutions, identifying areas for improvement and optimizing resource utilization. You will champion innovation and continuous improvement, advocating for new technologies and strategies to enhance website solutions and meet evolving business needs. This role is essential in ensuring that GAF remains at the forefront of marketing technology and website solutions, ultimately contributing to the company's mission of 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 that include medical, dental, and vision for you and your family.
• Family-Building benefits that support the many different journeys to fertility and parenthood.
• Robust 401K plan that includes an employer match contribution with your pre-tax and/or Roth contributions.
• Wellness program, free financial coaching, a referral program, and product rebates when purchased for an employee's primary residence.
• Internal training programs and courses, as well as a generous tuition reimbursement program.