Cloud-Native Solution Architect for Digital Commerce

my7elevenhr; Irving (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

7-Eleven is seeking a Solution Architect to design and deliver secure, scalable technology for 7NOW and related digital commerce experiences. You will translate business needs into architectures across applications, APIs, data, and cloud services, guiding teams across product, engineering, security, QA, and DevOps.

You will apply security, observability, and cost-management best practices, help with capacity planning, and ensure alignment with enterprise standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field required; master’s degree preferred.
• 5+ years in software engineering, application design, or solution architecture.
• Experience supporting customer-facing or cloud-based applications.

Responsibilities

• Support end-to-end solution design for digital commerce capabilities, including customer experiences, backend services, APIs, integrations, data flows, and cloud services.
• Translate defined business, product, and nonfunctional requirements into technical designs, implementation guidance, and acceptance criteria.
• Participate in architecture and design reviews; document system boundaries, interfaces, dependencies, risks, and technical decisions.
• Provide design clarification, reference patterns, and implementation support to engineering teams, escalating complex decisions when needed.
• Apply established security, resiliency, observability, and cost-management practices to cloud-native solutions.
• Collaborate with architecture, security, DevOps, QA, data, product, operations, and vendors to align designs with enterprise standards and delivery priorities.
• Identify technical risks, debt, scalability constraints, and integration gaps, and recommend practical mitigations with guidance from senior architects.
• Contribute to reusable patterns and guardrails that improve interoperability, maintainability, reliability, and customer experience.
• Assist with technology evaluations, proofs of concept, capacity planning, release readiness, incident reviews, and platform improvements.
• Communicate solution options, tradeoffs, dependencies, and impacts clearly to technical and business stakeholders.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

RESTful APIs

Microservices

AWS Cloud

NoSQL

Security Best Practices

CI/CD / DevSecOps

Cross-team Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS / IT / Engineering

Master's degree preferred

Tools

AWS ECS/Fargate

AWS Lambda

API Gateway

SQS

SNS

EventBridge

CloudWatch

Job description

7-Eleven is seeking a Solution Architect to design and deliver secure, scalable technology for 7NOW and related digital commerce experiences. You will translate business needs into architectures across applications, APIs, data, and cloud services, guiding teams across product, engineering, security, QA, and DevOps.

You will apply security, observability, and cost-management best practices, help with capacity planning, and ensure alignment with enterprise standards.