Solution Architect - Teammate (REMOTE)

At DICK’S Sporting Goods, we believe in how positively sports can change lives. On our team, everyone plays a critical role in creating confidence and excitement by personally equipping all athletes to achieve their dreams.  We are committed to creating an inclusive and diverse workforce, reflecting the communities we serve.

If you are ready to make a difference as part of the world’s greatest sports team, apply to join our team today!

OVERVIEW:

Our relentless focus on inspiring, supporting, and equipping athletes and outdoor enthusiasts has made us a $13B company today. We are now on a journey to evolve from the best sports retailer to the best sports company in the world, investing in technology to empower our teammates and enhance their ability to serve our athletes. Join us to transform our technology, data, and analytics to build next-gen tools and platforms for our teammates.

The Solution Architect – Teammate is responsible for leading technology design and solutioning for our Teammate-focused initiatives across People & Purpose, Facilities Construction & Real Estate, Athlete Financial Services, and Intelligent Automation domains. This role drives the design and transformation of systems to deliver modern, cloud-native solutions that enhance teammate experiences, streamline operations, and support enterprise goals.

As the Solution Architect – Teammate, you will drive end-to-end technology designs for critical business opportunities at DICK’S Sporting Goods, acting as a catalyst for innovative teammate experiences through forward-looking technologies and platforms. You’ll collaborate across functions to align business goals with technical solutions, ensuring enterprise consistency and value delivery.

Job Purpose:

This role works closely with business and product management to translate strategic goals into technology capabilities. The Solution Architect collaborates with domain architects, platform engineers, and product teams to guide technical designs, leveraging reference architecture patterns, maturing cross-domain shared services, and ensuring alignment with foundational technologies, security, and reliability standards.

Direct experience with Service-Oriented and Event-Driven Architectures, Azure Cloud Technologies, Enterprise Data Platforms, HR and Payroll Systems (e.g., Workday, PeopleSoft), Payment and Tax Platforms (e.g., Adyen, Synchrony), and Intelligent Automation tools (e.g., RPA, AI-driven workflows) is desired. This role will be hands-on, collaborating with engineering and platform teams to design, build, and deliver solution spikes and proof-of concepts to validate designs and advance DSG’s enterprise technology capabilities.

The Solution Architect also delivers artifacts to assess business and systems impacts, maintains current and transitional systems diagrams, and ensures non-functional requirements (security, compliance, reliability, performance) are met. They work with stakeholders to turn design options, risks, and feasibility assessments into actionable technology roadmaps.

Responsibilities:

Technical Leadership

• Stays current on emerging technical trends, patterns, and solutions in HR, payroll, facilities, financial services, and intelligent automation domains.

• Acts as the resident expert on technology trends, influencing business and technical teams to adopt innovative solutions.

• Leads end-to-end technical architecture for initiatives, driving collaboration, communication, and hands-on development of proof-of-concepts and reference architectures.

• Recommends and leads solution architecture work, ensuring alignment with long-term business objectives, platform roadmaps, and reference architecture patterns.

Solution Leadership

• Produces and maintains technology systems views and roadmaps for teammate-focused domains, ensuring accuracy and actionability for engineering, business, and foundational tech teams.

• Maintains consistent solution architecture designs, including current and transitional states, risks, feasibility, and directional roadmaps.

• Drives execution of large-scale initiatives through documentation, roadmaps, communications, and alignment with business, product, and technical plans.

Solution Design & Delivery

• Organizes and leads technical design discussions with engineering teams to develop robust solutions.

• Assists in translating domain and application roadmaps into actionable steps for engineering leaders.

• Keeps technical leadership informed on reviews, risks, and domain direction.

• Guides engineers in solution architecture practices, including technology evaluations, proof-of-concepts, compliance, cross-team collaboration, and alignment with platform architecture and roadmaps.

• Shares best practices, technology patterns, and lessons learned, updating system architecture roadmaps and reference architectures based on evolving technologies and vendor solutions.

Desired Tech Stack Experience:

• Experience with cloud SaaS and PaaS offerings, cloud data/storage platforms, and containerized systems (e.g., Kubernetes, Azure AKS).

• Proficiency in Azure Cloud services, HR and payroll platforms (Workday, PeopleSoft), payment systems (Adyen, Synchrony), and tax compliance tools.

• Strong understanding of Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) and Event-Driven Architectures, including REST APIs, OpenAPI, Kafka, PubSub, Message Queues (RabbitMQ), and Databricks/Spark.

• Familiarity with Intelligent Automation tools, such as Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and AI-driven workflow platforms.

• Experience refactoring monolithic applications into modern architectures.

Job Requirements:

• Experience designing solutions for HR (e.g., talent management, payroll), facilities (e.g., store systems, real estate), or financial services (e.g., payments, tax compliance).

• Proven delivery of business, solution, data, and infrastructure architectures, including reference architectures, implementations, and proof-of-concepts.

• Experience producing polished artifacts for stakeholder communication and syndication.

• Strong collaboration with Product Management and Business Stakeholders for capability scoping and roadmap planning.

Bonus:

• 7–10+ years as a technical architect in major technology implementations, ideally in HR, facilities, financial services, or automation projects is strongly preferred.

• Hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) engineering and solutions.

• Experience leading internal and third-party vendor teams through discovery, design, and delivery of enterprise solutions.

• Expertise in full-stack development, compute and data storage platforms, streaming/event/queue integrations, and service-oriented/container architectures.

• Familiarity with HR platforms (Workday, PeopleSoft), payment and tax systems (Adyen, Synchrony), or intelligent automation (RPA, AI workflows).

• Experience with retail-focused domains, such as HR, payroll, facilities, or financial services.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Education: Master's Degree or equivalent level preferred in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience with additional job experience.

• General Experience: Substantial general work experience together with comprehensive job related experience in own area of expertise to fully competent level. (Over 6 years to 10 years)

• Managerial Experience: Experience of general supervision of more junior colleagues (7 to 12 months)

At DICK’S, we thrive on innovation and authenticity. That said, to protect the integrity and security of our hiring process, we ask that candidates do not use AI tools (like ChatGPT or others) during interviews or assessments.

To ensure a smooth and secure experience, please note the following:

• Cameras must be on during all virtual interviews.

• AI tools are not permitted to be used by the candidate during any part of the interview process.

• Offers are contingent upon a satisfactory background check which may include ID verification.

If you have any questions or need accommodations, we’re here to help. Thanks for helping us keep the process fair and secure for everyone!

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