Overview:
This role is vital to the successful communication, definition, and implementation of Blackhawk Network's architecture roadmap. You will leverage your enterprise architecture experience to drive and define Blackhawk's web and mobile application architecture. You will play a key role in transforming our technology landscape to be the next generation platform supporting Blackhawk Network’s business goals. Your innovative and creative mind in addition to your enterprise information systems management expertise, attention to detail, ability to solve problems and willingness to adapt to new challenges in a fast-paced environment are core traits for success in this role.
Responsibilities:
- Define, design and implement cutting-edge software and modify existing software to add features. Specify product internal/external interfaces. Contribute innovative ideas for components and system architecture
- Work with Business Analysts to review business requirements, minimize ambiguity and incomplete requirements, identify opportunities for engaging business review throughout the solution development and provide technical leadership and advice as needed
- Initiate informal reviews of ideas and technical objectives within and across business units
- Responsible for establishing architecture guidelines, best practices and identifying technology stacks for various applications
- Responsible for the adoption and implementation of Blackhawk's software development methodology by adopting best practices from current methodologies like SCRUM, Kanban and Test Driven Development