Architect - Application Systems (Multiple Positions)

8901 - Corp Office West Crk - 12800 Tuckahoe Creek Parkway, Richmond, Virginia, 23238

CarMax, the way your career should be!

Summary of Duties:

• Participate in the Digital Commerce roadmap for CarMax designing target state architecture and transitional architectures as needed.
• Hands on systems design with multiple teams, focused on full-stack digital experiences and microservice/API creation supporting omnichannel.
• Leverage and employ DevOps principles to help teams increase observability, scalability, speed to market, and quality delivery.
• Work with teams to nurture a culture of experimentation to ensure teams are learning quickly.
• Work with Enterprise Architects, Business Leadership, Product Leadership, and other Technology Leaders to create an overarching design of services needed to provide customers and associates with a true unified commerce experience.
• Drive consensus of architecture and design by working closely with all teams to deliver a cohesive digital commerce ecosystem, as well as effectively presenting growth and maturity opportunities to stakeholders across all levels of the organization.
• Identify opportunities for stability and resiliency, and ensure teams have an effective disaster recovery playbook (both manual and automated).
• Drive design consensus within and across teams while maintaining awareness across technology.
• Find opportunities for teams to learn and implement new technologies and patterns, and develop/deliver technical training and business understanding for developers and peers.
• Investigate new technologies and techniques, and research ongoing industry trends through a partnership with the Enterprise Architecture team.
• Maintain and grow a deep knowledge and functional expertise of the supported technology ecosystem and touchpoints, and impacts of changing industry best practices for enterprise development and deployment.
• Maintain and grow a deep knowledge of the retail, wholesale, marketplace and automotive industries, specifically from the point of view of how technology is being applied to power the customer experience from acquisition through retention.
• Develop design diagrams and prototypes to communicate your architecture vision.
• Maintain strong relationships with key product partners to ensure product plans are aligned with company objectives/plans.
• Conduct architectural system design evaluations in support of your teams.
• Partner closely with Lead Engineers to drive the digital commerce ecosystem forward. Make thoughtful decisions on the fly, constantly clearing roadblocks to getting to your target architecture.
• Ensure target business areas have the appropriate level of awareness, knowledge, buy-in into our design and architecture roadmap.
• Lead architecture discovery and drive innovation to identify forward-looking solutions, simple solutions to complex problems.
• Creates and enhances guidelines, policies, practices, and procedures to drive improvements to the technical design and development processes; partner with other solution architects to identify opportunity areas and determine best practices.
• Evaluate 3rd party vendor products within the context of architectural design and delivery in your solution boundaries.

Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Systems (any), or a related field of study AND Eight (8) years of experience in the job offered or related occupation in which the required experience was gained. Must also have demonstrated experience with the following: Application development; Architect & solution enterprise Customer or Partner facing Digital Commerce programs across multiple organization; ERP, supply chain, security, risk, fraud, payment, marketing, merchandising, and order management solutions supporting the Digital Commerce capabilities; Balancing explicit sales channel needs while driving positive impacts around commerce user experiences and services; Key aspects of Digital Catalogs, Carts, Checkouts, Sales Orders, Inventory, Purchase Orders, Order fulfillment, and Order Orchestration; Cloud hosted technologies and infrastructure, (AWS or Azure); DevOps capabilities (automated testing, continuous integration, and continuous delivery); Full-stack application design, including APIs, microservices, and front-end development (such as React, Angular, HTML/CSS, and other web design components); Helping to set up strangler patterns both in future and legacy services/solutions; Discovering ways in which to use a blurred Digital Commerce ecosystem as a strategic differentiator; Delivering solutions across multiple customer touchpoints; Digital Commerce channel agnostic implementations (B&M, Call Center, and Web & Mobile Applications); Working in an agile environment; and Working with technology teams to create and execute on an application architecture.

Work Location:

12800 Tuckahoe Creek Parkway, Richmond, VA 23238

100% remote/telecommuting position, if within 100 miles of Richmond, VA

About CarMax

CarMax disrupted the auto industry by delivering the honest, transparent and high-integrity experience customers want and deserve. This innovative thinking around the way cars are bought and sold has helped us become the nation's largest retailer of used cars, with over 200 locations nationwide.

Our amazing team of more than 25,000 associates work together to deliver iconic customer experiences. Along the way, we help every associate grow their career and achieve their best, at work and in their community. We are recognized for our commitment to training and diversity and are one of the FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For®.

CarMax is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Upon an applicant's request, CarMax will consider reasonable accommodation to complete the CarMax Job Application.