Senior Cloud Solutions Architect — Retail Infra & Innovation

Foot Locker; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee Discount

Paid Time Off

Medical, Dental, Vision Coverage

401(k) and Roth 401(k)

Stock Purchase Plan

Life Insurance

Flexible Spending Account

Opportunities for Advancement

Tuition Reimbursement

Strong Company Culture

Employee Resource Groups

Job summary

Foot Locker, Inc. is seeking a Senior Solutions Architect to lead cloud infrastructure design and enterprise integrations for a retail environment. You will drive IaaS/PaaS strategies, automation, and DevOps practices to enable self-service, scalable solutions for product teams.

Strong communication, leadership, and cloud certification are valued. The role emphasizes migration planning, cost stewardship, and collaboration across security, development, and operations to deliver resilient

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in information technology, information services, or engineering field.
• 10+ years of experience in information technology services and support.
• 5+ years of experience in a design-centric information technology role.
• 5+ years of strong experience directly related to cloud computing in a large enterprise.
• Strong experience with infrastructure-as-code, configuration-as-code, and automated deployment technologies.
• Strong experience with enterprise code repositories, pipelining tools, and CI/CD enablement products.
• Strong preference for professional certification on cloud technology.
• Ability to influence others using reasoning, persuasion, and negotiation; excellent interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrated ability to rapidly learn new technologies.
• Well-developed verbal and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Analyze, design, advocate for, advise on, test, install, document, implement, optimize, support, and educate peers on complex infrastructure solutions in public cloud environments.
• Possess and maintain a deep understanding of IaaS and PaaS services on cloud platforms, including virtualization, containers, and serverless tech.
• Design and operate environments enabling self-service, automation, and reliability for product teams.
• Differentiate among compute, storage, networking, and data options to drive product recommendations.
• Identify opportunities for cost savings, and architect cloud infrastructure stewardship.
• Work with Security teams to ensure PCI, SOX, GDPR compliance and remediation tracking.
• Advocate for a DevOps-enabled automated CI/CD solution for rapid development and production operations.
• Build and communicate a cloud environment vision through models and roadmaps.
• Collaborate with development, operations, and infrastructure teams to develop automation.
• Develop migration strategies for moving workloads from on-premises to public cloud.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship across infra and engineering.

Skills

Influence & negotiation

Interpersonal skills

Verbal & written comms

Learning agility

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in information technology, information services, or engineering

Tools

IaC tools

CI/CD tools

Code repositories

Job description

Foot Locker, Inc. is seeking a Senior Solutions Architect to lead cloud infrastructure design and enterprise integrations for a retail environment. You will drive IaaS/PaaS strategies, automation, and DevOps practices to enable self-service, scalable solutions for product teams.

Strong communication, leadership, and cloud certification are valued. The role emphasizes migration planning, cost stewardship, and collaboration across security, development, and operations to deliver resilient