Solution Architect (Amazon Web Services)

Primary Location: Bucharest, Romania (hybrid work arrangement)

Additional Location: Warsaw, Poland (hybrid work arrangement)

Start something great today. Go Goodyear.
 

 
Innovation. Trendsetting technologies. The highest quality. Goodyear stands for the best possible connection between cars and roads. What drives us? A passion for tires! This passion is what allows our employees to set standards that are shaping an entire industry each and every day. All our employees benefit from the opportunity to distinguish themselves through multidisciplinary, international experiences. Get started right away – join the team (the position can also be located at one of our locations in Poland) 
 

The Opportunity:

This is a unique opportunity to join our EMEA eCommerce community as an AWS Solution Architect, collaborating closely with a highly effective Digital Marketing team on the creation of cutting-edge technical solutions that drive our business, team, and personal success. 

As a member of our EMEA IT Customer Facing Team, you will play a pivotal role as a subject matter expert, using your deep technical, consultative, and influencing skills to engage with internal & external business counterparts. Your insights and innovative solutions will directly impact our business's current and future IT technology initiatives. 

As a Goodyear AWS Solution Architect, you will lead developers in creating cloud solutions, including API and microservice developments. You will contribute to the medium—and long-term architecture in collaboration with the Technical Architecture team to support the IT Business Strategy.
 
Your Tasks & Responsibilities:

• Have complete ownership of the business and technology delivery including:
  • Demand analysis and assessment of business processes and the system landscape
  • Drafting, designing, planning, optimization of our E-Commerce system and the respective integration 
  • Design new or incrementally improve existing applications 
  • Leading, in a hands-on mentality, a team of developers in the technical implementation of eCommerce processes using microservice and API
  • Identification of dependencies between system, infrastructure, and projects towards competing demands
  • Strategic selection of new technologies according to the business architecture
• Actively provide transfer of knowledge on current/future technologies, as well as conducting cost/benefit analysis of tools through evaluation of future IT solutions to determine best-balanced and integrated solutions
• Review the state-of-the-art awareness of information technology strategies by attending technical sessions, extensive research, and developing a network of industry contacts
• Conduct demand and feasibility analysis and implement proof-of-concepts 
• Be able to technically guide extended teams during the development and deployment of the solutions

Your Profile:

• University degree or similar qualifications with relevant work experience (preferably in IT, Ecommerce, Digital Marketing e.g.)
• Experience in developing Amazon Web Services microservice architectures preferably based on AWS Lambda’s and API Gateway
• Professional experience in aforementioned tasks is preferred as well as experience in documentation and development of acceptance criteria and demand analysis
• Profound skills in modeling of distributed software architecture (methods, design pattern, visualization, and documentation
• Deeper knowledge of agile software development and project life cycles
• Experience with one of the following technologies would be a plus: Headless eCommerce, SAP commerce (SAP Hybris commerce), Adobe Experience Manager 
• Basic know-how of technical strategies, legal demands, and common practices
• Well-rounded professional. Working in a structured and organized way.
• Collaborative & customer oriented. Good communication skills and experience in facilitating meetings, working groups, or groups of people with varying opinions 
• Adaptable with an innovative mindset. You are flexible, enjoy challenges and bring new ideas forward
• Proactive. Showcasing excellent customer service engagement & enthusiasm 
• Passionate & self-driven. Highly interested in topics in the following areas: web, cloud, big data 
• English is a must; other European language is an asset

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Goodyear is one of the world's largest tire companies. It employs about 71,000 people and manufactures its products in 55 facilities in 22 countries around the world. Its two Innovation Centers in Akron, Ohio, and Colmar-Berg, Luxembourg, strive to develop state-of-the-art products and services that set the technology and performance standard for the industry. For more information about Goodyear and its products, go to www.goodyear.com/corporate.Goodyear is an equal employment opportunity employer.