Solutions Architect, Cloud Job at SanMar

SanMar Issaquah, WA 98029

At SanMar, the work you do makes a difference.

What's the Short Version?
The Solution Architect, Cloud is responsible for designing and helping implement scalable, highly available, secure infrastructure solutions. They are highly knowledgeable of cloud technologies including migration tools and cost models. This role is a technical leader within architecture and works alongside development, infrastructure, and operations teams to plan architecture models leveraging public, private or hybrid cloud services optimizing for functionality, maintainability, and cost. The Solution Architect, Cloud constantly looks to improve the solutions and processes within SanMar ensuring consistency, continuity, and scalability. They ideate, design, document and assist with the implementation of technologies that meet the current and future needs of our business.

What Will You Be Doing?
  • Be the resident expert on cloud & infrastructure implementations and options for SanMar IT.
  • Develop and maintain the architectural roadmaps for cloud-based and hybrid infrastructure for SanMar IT.
  • Help lead SanMar’s move to cloud-based and hybrid infrastructures.
  • Coordinate with technical leaders and project managers to prioritize work, establish designs, and estimate timelines and cost for cloud & infrastructure projects.
  • Articulate and mediate architecture tradeoffs related to business need, performance, scalability, manageability, testability, security, maintainability, usability, functionality, cost, and time.
  • Translate business requirements and strategy into architecture designs usable by delivery teams.
  • Perform architecture, design, and implementation reviews.
  • Assist in finding solutions that overcome challenges and roadblocks in production and during project delivery.
  • Understand SanMar’s strategic goals and assist in the evaluation and selection process for new technology ensuring it aligns with SanMar’s Architecture strategies.
  • Lead Proof of Concepts as needed to evaluate technologies, validate designs, and increase team learning.
  • Develop, communicate, and provide mentoring on architecture, strategies, guidelines, standards, governance, methodologies, design patterns, and best practices.

What Are We Looking For?
  • Bachelor's Degree in information technology, computer science, software engineering, or equivalent experience Preferred.
  • 7-9 years of relevant experience.
  • Experience with large and complex infrastructure implementations on the cloud.
  • Experience architecting solutions for simplicity, efficiency, and effectiveness in support of large-scale business systems.
  • Deep understanding of Azure and AWS (other cloud providers a plus) including API capabilities, data integrations/pipelines.
  • Experience with all phases of the software development lifecycle.
  • Broad understanding of private, public and hybrid cloud architecture, networking, cloud operations and cost models and cloud migration best practices and tools.
  • Demonstrated long-term, strategic thinking with the ability to recognize and help others understand what must be done now and what can be improved later.
  • Demonstrated skills in gathering, clarifying, translating, explaining, and prioritizing system needs.
  • Demonstrated experience facilitating operations and infrastructure personnel processing through technical designs and implementations.
  • Demonstrated experience in building and optimizing mission-critical cloud & infrastructure solutions that support a large enterprise including performance, scalability, maintainability, business continuity and disaster recovery concerns.
  • Strong communication skills, written and verbal, allowing you to build rapport with roles at all levels of responsibility and articulate solutions to technical and non-technical people.

What's Our Offer?
Salary Range: You`ll earn between $135,000 - $190,000 annually, depending on experience.

Bonus: You`ll be eligible for an annual discretionary bonus up to 15% of base salary.

Paid Time Off: You`ll accrue paid time off on a bi-weekly basis based on hours worked up to 112 hours per year to start. Employees also receive 7 paid holidays and 1 paid family day off.

Additional Benefits:
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits
  • 401k plan and matches $1 for $1 up to 4% of earnings, matched & vested at every pay cycle
  • Life insurance
  • Short/long-term disability coverage
  • Paid maternity/paternity leave
  • Pet insurance

What Should You Expect?
Hybrid: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to use hands to finger, handle or feel. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. Work environment is moderately quiet. Ability to work on computer for multiple hours with frequent interruptions.

Who is SanMar?
SanMar is more than just a t-shirt company.

We see t-shirts as a blank canvas that can be used to unite a team, tell a story or show your love for your favorite local haunt. We create meaningful connections that elevate lives through the apparel we provide.

As the industry leader in promotional apparel, we live by a refreshingly simple philosophy: Be Nice and Tell the Truth. This is how we’ve done business since Marty Lott founded the company in 1971. Today we work with awesome apparel manufacturers from around the world, we’ve grown to more than 5,000 employees and we still work with those same simple principles in mind.

You can see our values take shape in A Canvas for Good, our platform for positive action and citizenship. We are dedicated to being good stewards of the world we share, to lifting up the communities where we work and to respecting our employees. Our IDEA Council guides company-wide diversity efforts, and our annual Sustainability Report shows our progress toward our goals of doing business responsibly.

Why Work at SanMar?
Our people are at the heart of everything we do. They bring their talent, passion and dedication to work with them every day. Their hard work inspires us and gives us purpose. We love working here together.

Whether you work in our headquarters, from your home or in one of our distribution centers across North America, we believe that investing in you is just the right thing to do. Our comprehensive benefits package is designed to support your health and well-being, life balance, career growth and (eventually) retirement.

SanMar works with brands you already know, like Nike, The North Face and Brooks Brothers, as well as providing industry-leading private label apparel and accessories. Our people come to work excited to do their part, providing clothing that helps people feel that they’re a part of something special.

Here’s your chance to be a part of this story. If you’re ready to work in a place where your participation matters and your growth is a priority, we’re ready for you.

SanMar is an Equal Opportunity Employer
Whoever you are, wherever you’re from, whoever you love or follow in faith, whatever your disability or superpower status, whichever ethnicity or gender you identify with, you are welcome at SanMar.

SanMar participates in E-Verify. #LI-REMOTE



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