Sr. Solutions Architect, Cloud Infrastructure

Foot Locker

Seattle (WA)

On-site

USD 120,000 - 170,000

Full time

14 days+

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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

Overview

Are you passionate about sneakers and eager to make your mark in the dynamic intersection of technology and sneaker culture? Foot Locker, Inc. is seeking an experienced and self‑motivated Senior Solutions Architect to foster the evolution of our robust cloud infrastructure.

As a Sneaker‑Inspired Senior Solutions Architect, you'll be the creative force driving innovative solutions at the crossroads of technology and sneaker culture.

We are seeking an individual with a proven track record in designing, integrating, and deploying enterprise solutions for retail companies who’s been successful enabling application and development teams to deliver a healthy, agile, and resilient ecommerce environment.

Responsibilities

Analyze, design, advocate for, advise on, test, install, document, implement, optimize, support, and educate peers on complex infrastructure solutions in public cloud environments such as Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and private cloud.
Possess and maintain a deep understanding of IaaS and PaaS services offered on cloud platforms, including strong familiarity with escalating tiers of compute abstraction such as virtualization, containerization, and serverless technologies.
Design and operate environments supporting ease of use, self‑service, automation, and reliability of services for product teams, leveraging methods that include flexibility in order to prevent inescapable product adherence.
Differentiation among compute, storage, networking, hyperconverged/hyperscaled framework, and data structure/placement options to intelligently drive product recommendations.
Recognize opportunities for cost savings, build a model for pre‑deployment cost identification, and architect a solution for cloud infrastructure stewardship.
Work with Security teams to ensure compliance with PCI, SOX, GDPR policies, as well as identification and tracking of vulnerabilities through to remediation across cloud infrastructure.
Advocate for a DevOps‑enabled automated CI/CD solution that delivers tools and processes for rapid application development efforts and ongoing production operations.
Build and articulate a cloud environment vision through conceptual and detailed models to communicate strategic direction.
Collaborate with development, operations, and infrastructure teams to develop sound automation solutions.
Construct and partake in product evaluation exercises and proof‑of‑concept implementations that rely on well‑architected success criteria designed uniquely for business solutions.
Demonstrate good judgment, service mindset, and ability to identify problems in advance as well as present and propose solutions.
Prepare and maintain documentation detailing configuration of deployed solutions at both the wide‑view and the granular level.
Develop migration strategies and execution plans for transitioning workloads and applications from on‑premises environments to the public cloud, ensuring minimal disruption and maximum efficiency.
Identify challenge points in existing implementations and develop strategies to improve services.
Provide technical leadership and mentorship across infrastructure and engineering domains.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s Degree in information technology, information services, or engineering field.
10 or more years of experience in information technology services and support.
5 or more years of experience in a design‑centric information technology role.
5 or more years of strong experience directly related to cloud computing in a large enterprise.
Strong experience with infrastructure‑as‑code, configuration‑as‑code, and tiered, 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.

Benefits

The annual base salary range is $120,000 – $170,000 per year. This range represents the anticipated low and high end of the salary for this position. This role is also eligible to receive short‑term incentives that align with individual and company performance. Salary will be determined by the education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, internal equity, and alignment with market data. Salary is one component of the Foot Locker, Inc. total compensation package, which includes the items below.