Enterprise Architect

Company Overview

Shamrock Trading Corporation is the parent company for a family of brands in transportation services, finance and technology. Headquartered in Overland Park, KS, Shamrock has regularly been named “Best Places to Work” by the Kansas City Business Journal. We also have offices in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Ft. Lauderdale, Laredo, Midland, Nashville and Phoenix.

With an average annual revenue growth of 25% over several decades, Shamrock’s success is attributed to three key factors: hiring the best people, cultivating long-term relationships with our customers and continually evolving in the marketplace.

Responsibilities

Shamrock Trading Corporation is looking for an Enterprise Architect to support Shamrock’s extremely fast growth. The ideal candidate will have a strong working knowledge of a broad range of disciplines, including project lifecycle management, networking, salesforce, custom application development, business processes, and cyber security. This person will be interfacing with leadership within the IT organization, the strategy department, senior management, and various other departments within the enterprise to ensure solutions are business-focused, scalable, secure, and efficiently vetted.

• Serve as the primary focal point for work intake for all technical projects related to the companies and partners under the Shamrock umbrella
• Able to define, establish parameters, and guidelines as to best architectural practices
• Providing guidance and clarity to existing Shamrock architectural engineers within various disciplines, including Salesforce, data, software, windows, linux, and networking, and security
• Working closely with leadership in the IT/strategy departments, senior leadership, and leadership throughout the various Shamrock brands to align corporate initiatives with technical capabilities
• Able to analyze current processes and systems both off-the-shelf and proprietary to consider scale, support, high availability, cost, security to ensure maximum return on investment for Shamrock
• Providing a cohesive technology vision that considers all of Product, Data, CRM and 3rd Party Applications.
• Stay on top of the latest trends and technologies that could help the business
• Serve as a link between technology vision and actual implementation
• Good knowledge of all software and technology trends
• Identify business needs in context with external factors like competitors and internal factors like current IT landscape
• Creating business architecture models to reflect the organization's strategies and goals and creating and implementing business visions and goals
• Interfacing with executive leadership and be able to define and communicate business goals to get stakeholders on board
• Mentor, train and guide fellow architects

Qualifications

• Good leadership with a proven track record and motivational skills
• Able to analyze the best approach to assess the viability of build versus buy for new work intake
• Experienced in proper due diligence in vetting potential new commercial technical products
• 5 to 10 years of IT experience
• BA/BS degree in a technical field or evidence of exceptional ability
• Preferably a masters degree
• Proven work experience as an Enterprise Architect or similar role
• Marketing (“selling” the results of architectural approaches through presentations).
• Must possess a passion for technology
• Must be innovative, self-motivated and willing to work outside of primary focus area
• Must possess initiative to resolve issues before they become critical
• Must possess strong people skills and the ability to work as a team member, collaborating and partnering with others to address issues
• Ability to communicate clearly in English, verbally and in writing, keeping the right people informed of relevant issues as well as understand and execute oral and written instructions
• Able to adapt to changes in a dynamic work environment
• Must have a propensity for knowledge gathering and sharing

Preferred Qualifications

Basic familiarity with:

• Solid understanding of freight/logistics technologies
• Experience as a technical architect
• Enterprise data management
• SQL, PostgreSQL
• Business strategy
• cloud computing and design – preferably AWS and Azure
• System architecture
• Networking
• Agile development best practices
• ETL processes
• Familiarity with warehousing tools like Snowflake, Databricks, Redshift a plus

Benefits Package

At Shamrock we hire bright, ambitious people and give them the tools they need to be successful. By investing in training and development, we hope to become a long-term career for employees, where there are always opportunities for advancement. Shamrock also offers a premier set of benefits for employees and their families:

• Medical: Fully paid healthcare, dental and vision premiums for employees and eligible dependents
• Work-Life Balance: Competitive PTO and paid leave policies
• Financial: Generous company 401(k) contributions and employee stock ownership after one year
• Wellness: Onsite gym, jogging trail and discounted membership to nearby fitness center

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