Solution Architect – Personalization

Location: Charlotte, NC (Preferred) | Tempe, AZ | Hybrid (3 days onsite)

Duration: Direct Hire / Full-Time

Industry: Retail / Convenience Store / Digital Customer Experience

Position Summary

We are seeking an experienced Solution Architect – Personalization to join a leading multinational convenience retail organization. This role will lead the architecture, design, and evolution of enterprise personalization and customer engagement solutions that support millions of customer interactions across digital and in-store channels.

The ideal candidate has experience designing enterprise-scale customer experience platforms, Customer Data Platforms (CDPs), personalization engines, journey orchestration solutions, and digital marketing technologies. You will partner with business leaders, product managers, and engineering teams to define architecture strategy, create technology roadmaps, and deliver scalable solutions that enhance customer engagement and business outcomes.

Overview The Solution Architect, Personalization proactively and holistically leads and supports architecture activities that guide the development and management of a portfolio of solutions under the Enterprise Architecture scope. Solutions include, but are not limited to, customer data platforms, personalization engines, recommendation engines, loyalty engines, discount engines, promotional tools, communication platforms, content management systems, digital asset management systems, mobile apps, master data platforms, in-store digital screens, ERP, HRMS, and POS.

The architect provides the necessary leadership, analysis, and design for development solutions to ensure that solutions meet business needs and align with architectural governance and standards.

What you do Here are just a few ways that you’ll help make journeys better as you demonstrate competencies across four key dimensions.

1. Interpret Business Needs

• Translates customer journeys and business requirements into technical requirements into business capability maps, value-stream maps, architectural blueprint and technology enablers to achieve business objectives and documents all solution architecture design and analysis work.
• Works closely with the business owners, customer experience technology, technical product owners, and product managers to ensure a robust architectural runway that can support future business requirements throughout the product lifecycle.
• Understands business drivers and business capabilities (future and current state) and determines corresponding enterprise solution designs and change requirements to drive the organization’s targeted business outcomes. 2. Technical Leadership
• Guide development and engineering teams throughout the implementation process, providing technical expertise and vision.

3. Assess Technology

• Monitors the current-state solution portfolio to identify deficiencies through aging of the technologies used by the application, or misalignment with business requirements.
• Supports product managers in end-of-life product decisions to maintain, refresh or retire services, or systems, including applications, technologies, processes, and information.
• Understands emerging technology trends and disruptions and their practical application to enable new and evolving business and operating models.
• Analyzes the technology industry, competitors, and market trends, and determines their potential implications for a given solution.
• Analyzes the business-IT environment to detect critical deficiencies, legacy, and technical debt, and recommends solutions for improvement.
• Facilitates the evaluation and selection of software product standards and services, as well as the design of standard and custom software configurations.
• Consults with application and infrastructure development projects and products to fit systems or infrastructure to architecture and identify when it is necessary to modify designs to accommodate the solution architecture.

4. Apply Technology

• Leads evaluation, design, maintenance, and evolution of the solution architecture across a group of specific business applications or technologies based on enterprise business strategy, business capabilities, value-streams, business requirements and enterprise standards.
• Manages and develops the architecture for a broader scope of projects or products, driving application architects and other technical resources that manage and design architecture for a single project or product or initiative.
• Develops/improves the strategic roadmap for the evolution of the enterprise solution portfolio from current to future state, as defined by the solutions architecture that is aligned with business objectives.
• Acts as a consultant on a broad range of technologies, platforms, and vendor offerings to drive targeted business outcomes.
• Create architectural designs to guide and contextualize solution development across products, services, projects, and systems, including applications, technologies, processes, and information.
• Works closely with business and technology leaders as well as project and product managers to ensure the execution of plans corresponds with what is being promised throughout the project or product lifecycle.
• Provides consulting support to application architects within agile teams to ensure the project or product is aligned with the overall enterprise architecture.

5. Provide Enterprise Guidance

• Provides deliverables like standard definitions, reference models and architecture designs to support architectural governance to assess the impact of new and ongoing technology investment on business and IT estate.
• Supports a community of practice (CoP), guiding and helping agile teams and product owners to align with the overall enterprise architecture, governance and assurance.
• Designs and directs the governance activities associated with ensuring solution architecture assurance and compliance.
• Defines the principles, guidelines, standards, and solution patterns to ensure solution decisions are aligned with the enterprise’s future-state architecture vision.

What you need We want you to join our team! Here’s what we’re looking for.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, system analysis or a related study, or equivalent experience
• Minimum of five years of experience in at least two IT solution development disciplines, including solution, application, technical or infrastructure architecture, network management, application development, middleware, database management or cloud development
• Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies, platforms, and processing environments
• Good understanding of strategic and emerging technology trends, and the practical application of existing and emerging technologies to new and evolving business and operating models
• Good understanding of product management, agile principles and development methodologies and capability of supporting agile teams by providing advice and guidance on opportunities, impact, and risks, taking account of technical and architectural debt
• Experience implementing an enterprise customer data platform and journey orchestration tool (Ideally Adobe Experience Platform and Adobe Journey Optimizer)
• Experience developing architecture blueprints, strategies, and roadmaps.
• Experience delivering presentations to senior-level executives and technical audiences.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work with developers in an outsourced environment.
• Ability to negotiate and resolve conflicts.
• Experience working in a relevant industry is helpful but not required.

What’s in it for you Our job openings in stores and offices allow you to grow quickly within a global company, while benefiting from a dynamic work environment that puts people first. Wherever you are on your journey, we have a place for you. Here are some of the attractive benefits we offer:

• Competitive Salary plus annual bonus payment.
• Complete benefits packages (medical, dental, 401k, employee stock plan, etc.).
• People Perks which allows for great discounts on food and fuel.
• Work for a leading, innovative, and growing company in convenience stores operations.
• Fortune 500 company and a 2-time Gallup Exceptional Workplace Award Winner.
• Tuition reimbursement of $5,000 per year.
• Learning opportunities to develop new skills and to evolve professionally in a fast-growing company.
• Major offices in Charlotte, NC, Laval, Quebec, Canada and Tempe, AZ.

Scrum Master

Location: Charlotte, NC (Hybrid)
Employment Type: Contract

Position Overview

We are seeking an experienced Scrum Master to lead Agile delivery teams in driving predictable, high-quality software delivery while fostering a culture of continuous improvement. This leadership role is responsible for facilitating Agile ceremonies, coaching cross-functional teams, removing impediments, and ensuring alignment with enterprise Agile standards and best practices.

The ideal candidate is a servant leader with exceptional facilitation, coaching, and communication skills who can effectively partner with Product Owners, Engineering leaders, and stakeholders to maximize team performance and business value.

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Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 5+ years of experience serving as a Scrum Master supporting Agile software development teams.
• Deep knowledge of Scrum, Agile principles, Lean practices, and iterative software delivery.
• Demonstrated experience coaching Agile teams toward higher maturity and improved delivery outcomes.
• Strong facilitation, conflict resolution, servant leadership, and organizational skills.
• Experience managing cross-functional dependencies across multiple teams.
• Expertise using Jira for Agile project management, dashboard creation, reporting, and workflow automation.
• Experience analyzing Agile metrics to improve delivery performance and team effectiveness.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills with Product, Engineering, and executive leadership.
• Ability to identify risks, remove impediments, and drive teams toward predictable delivery.

Preferred Qualifications

• Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Professional Scrum Master (PSM), SAFe Scrum Master (SSM), or equivalent Agile certification.
• Experience working in large enterprise Agile environments.
• Familiarity with Agile scaling frameworks such as SAFe, LeSS, or Scrum@Scale.
• Experience supporting DevOps, CI/CD, and cloud-based software delivery.
• Knowledge of software development lifecycle (SDLC), release management, and quality assurance processes.
• Experience using Agile analytics tools such as Jira Align, Azure DevOps, Rally, or similar platforms.

 

Job Title: Software Engineer – Hiring FAST!
Industry: Finance
Location: Charlotte, NC
Pay Rate: W2 Rates Only – NO C2C
Setting: Hybrid Required (Remote is NOT an Option)
Duration: 12+ months
Job ID: 247293

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field.
• 4+ years of experience in ETL development and data integration.
• Strong hands-on experience with Ab Initio or PySpark, Python, and Oracle Database.
• Experience supporting and maintaining enterprise-scale data processing applications.
• Experience with production support, incident management, and root cause analysis.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience with cloud-based data platforms and modern data engineering practices.
• Knowledge of DevOps, CI/CD, version control, and automated testing methodologies.
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Microsoft Copilot, or similar) to improve development productivity, accelerate migrations, and enhance code quality.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.
• Proven experience migrating ETL jobs from legacy platforms to modern data processing frameworks.
• Strong SQL skills.

Responsibilities:

• Maintain, support, and enhance existing ETL applications and data integration workflows.
• Provide production support, troubleshoot issues, and ensure timely resolution of incidents.
• Analyze, design, develop, test, and deploy ETL solutions using Ab Initio, PySpark, and Python.
• Lead and execute the migration of ETL jobs and data pipelines from Ab Initio to PySpark.
• Work closely with business and technology stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver solutions.
• Leverage AI-assisted development tools to support code generation, refactoring, testing, documentation, and migration activities.

Job Title: Technology Business Systems Consultant 3 

Duration: 12 months

Location: Charlotte, NC 

Hybrid: 3 days onsite / 2 days remote

Required Qualifications:

• 4+ years of experience coordinating technology, cybersecurity, risk, or application delivery activities, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of work experience, training, military experience, or education
• Experience managing assessment intake, readiness, scheduling, status tracking, stakeholder communication, and issue resolution across multiple concurrent activities
• Experience working with application teams, technology partners, or security teams to collect required documentation, confirm access and test account readiness, and resolve onboarding blockers
• Experience tracking milestones, risks, scope changes, remediation activities, target dates, and closure requirements using workflow or service management tools

Desired Qualifications:

• Background in Application Security, Risk Management, AppSec Operations, or Security Service Delivery.
• Strong coordination, and organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple concurrent assessments, retests, and stakeholder requests while ensuring delivery commitments are met.
• Ability to facilitate communication between testers, application teams, Application Security Champions, technology partners, and other stakeholders
• Ability to coordinate collection of architecture diagrams, supporting documentation, business context, test accounts, environment access, and other assessment readiness inputs
• Experience monitoring assessment progress, coordinating responses to tester questions, documenting status updates, and escalating blockers or overdue items when needed
• Experience supporting findings review, disposition tracking, remediation coordination, retest scheduling, and closure confirmation activities
• Familiarity with application security assessment lifecycle concepts, including intake, scoping, readiness, testing, findings review, remediation, retesting, and governance reporting
• Experience using tools such as ServiceNow, Jira, Confluence, SharePoint, Excel, PowerPoint, or similar workflow, reporting, and collaboration platforms
• Ability to create clear, concise stakeholder communications, meeting notes, status summaries, and governance or operational metrics reporting materials
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to track assessment coverage, onboarding metrics, remediation trends, and program effectiveness
• Foundational understanding of application security risk, vulnerability management, remediation workflows, and compliance reporting is a plus

AWS Solution Architect III

Location: Remote,  Charlotte, NC
Type: Contract (12 Months)
Pay Rate: $85-95/hr W2 ONLY, NO C2C
Work Arrangement: Hybrid preferred, open to fully remote for exceptional candidates

Position Overview:

We are seeking experienced and innovative Digital Solution Architects III to support cloud migration and modernization efforts within the Digital IT organization. You will play a strategic role in designing scalable, flexible, and secure solutions across cloud, AI/ML, mobile, and digital platforms, enabling the digital transformation at scale.

Key Responsibilities:

• Drive the design and implementation of cloud-based applications and workload migrations (primarily AWS).

• Partner with Cybersecurity, Enterprise Architecture, Infrastructure, and Agile product teams to ensure secure, performant, and scalable architectures.

• Design across the digital tech stack including Web, Mobile, AI, API, SaaS, and COTS products.

• Lead the architecture of complex Big Data/AI/ML analytics solutions and migrations to AWS.

• Produce C4 models, architecture diagrams, and service specifications in alignment with enterprise standards.

• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to ensure cloud best practices and DevSecOps integration using tools like Terraform and CI/CD pipelines.

• Mentor and influence engineering and architecture peers across multiple teams and workstreams.

• Promote agile, scalable delivery frameworks while supporting product and business outcomes.

Required Qualifications:

• 5–7+ years of experience in digital solution architecture and cloud-based systems.

• Hands-on expertise in AWS services (S3, Lambda, EC2, EKS, Kinesis, Athena, EMR).

• Proven experience in AI/ML architecture, cloud-native data modeling, and big data pipelines.

• Solid background in Terraform, CI/CD workflows, and infrastructure as code.

• Experience in real-time data platforms such as Kafka, and systems like Aveva PI is a plus.

• Strong understanding of modern web and mobile application development.

• Proven track record of delivering scalable, enterprise-grade digital products.

• Ability to lead through influence across technical and non-technical teams.

• Familiarity with SDLC methodologies including Agile, Scrum, Kanban, and Waterfall.

• Experience externalizing APIs for third-party consumption.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge of utility forecasting, grid planning, or DERMs (Distributed Energy Resource Management Systems).

• Familiarity with AI/ML platforms like Amazon Bedrock, Claude, or similar.

• Experience with Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform.

• Prior work with SaaS platforms and COTS solutions in a large enterprise setting.

Education:

• Associate’s degree with 5+ years of experience, or

• 7+ years of direct architecture and leadership experience in IT, or

• Bachelor’s/Master’s/PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related technical field.

Business Analyst – Regulatory & Compliance
Charlotte, NC

 

Key Responsibilities:

Analyze regulatory requirements and assess impacts across business, technology, legal, and operations teams

Partner with stakeholders to gather, document, and refine detailed business and functional requirements

Support regulatory-driven initiatives, ensuring alignment with compliance expectations and delivery timelines

Work against defined SLAs and timelines to deliver high-quality analysis and documentation

Interpret and translate complex regulatory requirements into actionable business insights

Support regulatory reporting and data analysis efforts

Engage with cross-functional teams within CIB and frontline business units

Identify risks, gaps, and dependencies related to regulatory changes

Required Qualifications:

5+ years of relevant Business Analyst experience

Strong background in regulatory and compliance initiatives (US or Global)

Experience supporting regulatory reporting and data analysis

Knowledge of financial markets and banking operations

Proven ability to assess regulatory impact across business functions

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Demonstrated ability to work independently and manage stakeholder relationships

Strong analytical and critical thinking skills

 

STRATEGIC STAFFING SOLUTIONS (S3) HAS AN OPENING!

Senior Full Stack Engineer (Python, React, SQL Server)
Location: Charlotte, NC (Hybrid 3 days onsite/2 days remote)
12+ Months W2 contract role

Top Skills:

• SQL Server
• Python
• React
• Kanban
• Requirements Gathering and Analysis

Position Summary
This role combines expertise in Microsoft SQL Server, Python-based services and APIs, and React-based user interfaces to deliver scalable, secure, and reliable technology solutions.
This individual will also be the bridge between business stakeholders and engineering teams, identifying opportunities, defining requirements

• Elicit, document, and validate business and functional requirements.
• Translate business needs into user stories, acceptance criteria, process flows, and solution requirements.
• Design, develop, test, and maintain full-stack applications using Python and React.
• Build scalable and secure REST APIs, microservices, and backend services.
• Design and optimize Microsoft SQL Server databases, schemas, stored procedures, views, and queries.

*Beware of scams. S3 never asks for money during its onboarding process

Lead Project Manager
Charlotte NC 
Minneapolis, MN 

Required Qualifications
• 7+ years of project, program, or delivery management experience.
• 5+ years of Agile delivery experience in product-oriented environments.
• Demonstrated experience serving as an Agile Coach, Scrum Master, Agile Delivery Lead, or Agile Transformation Lead.
• Experience leading multiple concurrent initiatives across business and technology organizations.
• Strong stakeholder management and executive communication skills.
• Proven ability to influence without direct authority.
• Experience facilitating large-scale planning and cross-functional collaboration.
• Experience using Agile delivery tools such as Jira
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
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