Nike Looking for Principal Solution Architect, Information Architecture – GAP at Bengaluru, Karnataka Full Time

Become a Part of the NIKE, Inc. Team

NIKE, Inc. does more than outfit the world’s best athletes. It is a place to explore potential, obliterate boundaries and push out the edges of what can be. The company looks for people who can grow, think, dream and create. Its culture thrives by embracing diversity and rewarding imagination. The brand seeks achievers, leaders and visionaries. At NIKE, Inc. it’s about each person bringing skills and passion to a challenging and constantly evolving game.

NIKE is a technology company. From our flagship website and five-star mobile apps to developing products, managing big data and providing leading edge engineering and systems support, our teams at NIKE Global Technology exist to revolutionize the future at the confluence of tech and sport. We invest and develop advances in technology and employ the most creative people in the world, and then give them the support to constantly innovate, iterate and serve consumers more directly and personally. Our teams are innovative, diverse, multidisciplinary and collaborative, taking technology into the future and bringing the world with it.

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR

We’re looking for a Principal Solution Architect (Information Architecture). This role is part of Global Architecture & PaaS, Global Architecture team will partner and engage with business and technology leaders across all the business functions within the enterprise in planning, creating, maintaining, and executing a capability roadmap aligned to the overall company and solution strategies to ensure that the people, process, data insights/information, and technology needs are accurately captured and planned for short, medium, and long-term execution.

The candidate needs to have a strong experience and understanding of both Relational and Non-Relational databases, hands on experience on data ware housing platforms, ETL tools, attention to details, exposure to cloud platforms, strong verbal, and written communication skills, and be self-motivated and operates with a high sense of urgency and a high level of integrity. Preferable experience in Retail and ecommerce domain.

WHAT WILL YOU WORK ON

If this is you, you’ll be working with the Global Architecture team and perform the following tasks:

• Determine the right technology RDBMS, NoSQL, Flat Files, Object Storage for a given use case and design database solutions to store and retrieve company information in most optimized way.
• Standardize the process of data collection, storage, transformation, distribution, and usage.
• Ensures adherence to government regulations and guidelines for technological systems and safeguarding of data.
• A Data Architect considers all data sources concerning business operations and outlines a design to integrate, centralize, and maintain the data.
• Partner with Application, Data and Analytics Engineering leadership to establish a database architecture plan across multiple solution areas.
• Conceptualizing data models and align and review logical data models, API definitions and analytical data products for consistency and completeness.
• Architect and design solutions for data quality, reliability, and data governance.
• Embrace and influence technology platform thinking and drive architecture principles of data security, scale, uptime, and reliability
• Contribute to and implement the data management for enterprise information.
• Demonstrate a strong bias for architecture principles balanced with tactical timelines, cost, and risks
• Contribute to architecture guiding principles, development standards, training and hiring

WHO WILL YOU WORK WITH

This role is part of the Global Architecture team within Global Architecture & PaaS.

WHAT YOU BRING

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Business Information Management
• 10+ Years’ Experience in Technology innovation with new and disruptive technologies
• 6+ years providing design leadership to technical, business & cross-functional teams
• 8+ years in hands-on experience in data analysis, modeling, data engineering, or analytics
• Strong understanding of RDBMS and NoSQL databases.
• Demonstrated experience of using modelling tools
• Hands-on experience in at least one RDBMS, one NoSQL database and data warehousing platforms and ETL tools.
• Good understanding of Data Lakes and Bigdata Technologies
• Strong experience in building end-to-end data view with focus on integration
• A solid understanding of Data Architecture Patterns
• Experience implementing data warehousing solutions for non-technical data stewards and business owners
• Familiarity with enterprise cloud/virtual architectures like AWS, Microsoft Azure or GCP
• Demonstrated track record of leading within complex organizations requiring strong influence management skills – ability to work cooperatively at all levels in matrix environment
• Exceptional collaboration, listening, written and verbal communication skills with ability to facilitate technology strategy, requirements, and architecture conversations with all stakeholders (management, business users, and technology resources)
• Domain experience in ecommerce or retail is a must

NIKE, Inc. is a growth company that looks for team members to grow with it. Nike offers a generous total rewards package, casual work environment, a diverse and inclusive culture, and an electric atmosphere for professional development. No matter the location, or the role, every Nike employee shares one galvanizing mission: To bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete* in the world.

NIKE, Inc. is committed to employing a diverse workforce. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or disability.