Ecommerce Solution Architect

Job Summary

Job Description

Medline Industries continues to grow, and grow, and grow. In fact, we’ve enjoyed DOUBLE DIGIT growth in 56 of the past 57 years! And we are AGAIN named as a Chicago Tribune Top Employer! Doesn’t that sound like the kind of place you’d want to join?

Medline has an immediate need for an eCommerce Solution Architect to join and lead a multi-year, multi-national modernization program and ecommerce development team. This program and team are dedicated to transforming Medline’s ecommerce technical capabilities and building a modern cloud-based platform to drive innovation and scale for the future.

As an Architect, you will collaborate with business and IT leaders to align technology initiatives with business strategies. You will influence changes to business models, processes, organizations, and investments by providing a cloud and API-first technology perspective and an analytical approach to decision-making. You will ensure the delivery of high-quality technology solutions across a portfolio of eCommerce products, systems, and services.

Key Responsibilities

Architecture and Design:

• Design scalable, secure, and composable eCommerce architectures using Azure cloud technologies, ensuring alignment with business requirements and technical standards.

System Integration:

• Oversee the integration of eCommerce platforms with other systems, utilizing Azure Integration Services (AIS) and Azure API Management (APIM) to manage data flow, migration, and synchronization, ensuring a seamless user experience.

Security Management:

• Design robust security measures, including encryption, two-factor access controls, and OAuth2, to protect customer data and prevent fraud, ensuring compliance with Medline’s security standards.

Collaboration and Communication:

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including developers, designers, project managers, and business stakeholders, to deliver eCommerce solutions.
• Provide technical leadership, communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders, and maintain detailed technical documentation.

Vendor Management:

• Evaluate and lead the selection of third-party vendors and technologies that align with the eCommerce strategy.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, systems engineering, or a related field.

Work Experience

• Experience developing system designs, strategies, evaluations, and roadmaps.
• Experience delivering presentations to senior-level executives and technical audiences.
• Experience with composable software architectures that leverage an API-first approach and microservices.
• Experience with delivering software in the Azure cloud using modern CI/CD processes and delivery capabilities.
• Specific experience with eCommerce platforms (such as ATG, Magento, Shopify, Salesforce Commerce Cloud).

Knowledge / Skills / Abilities

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to effectively communicate with technical and non-technical staff at all levels of the organization.
• Solid understanding of product management, agile principles, and development methodologies. Capable of supporting agile teams by providing advice and guidance on opportunities, impact, and risks, considering technical and architectural debt.
• Excellent interpersonal skills in areas such as teamwork, facilitation, and negotiation.
• Strong leadership skills.
• Excellent analytical and technical skills.
• Excellent planning and organizational skills.
• Skilled at influencing, guiding, and facilitating stakeholders and peers in decision-making.
• Ability to work effectively in a team environment and lead cross-functional teams.

DISCLAIMER

All duties and requirements are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities.

This position description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by an employee occupying this position. Employees will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by their supervisor(s)/manager(s).

This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an at will employment relationship.

More About Medline: Medline is the largest privately held manufacturer and distributor of healthcare supplies in the United States, providing thousands of products that serve the entire continuum of care. Our innovative products and programs can be found in most hospitals, extended-care facilities, surgery centers, physician offices, home care dealers, home health agencies and retail outlets.

Founded in 1910, Medline has grown from a small manufacturer of aprons, surgical gowns and uniforms to a thriving $25 billion global enterprise because of our dedicated people, entrepreneurial spirit and honest values.

Again, named one of the country’s Best and Brightest Companies to Work For, and once again named to Chicago Tribune’s Top Workplaces, Medline has experienced fifty-plus years of consecutive annual growth, and is headquartered in Northfield, IL.

Benefits - Medline is committed to offering competitive benefits and a variety of choices to best meet the needs of you and your family. For employees scheduled to work at least 30 hours per week, this includes health and well-being, financial fitness, career development, paid time off and more. Employees scheduled to work less than 30 hours per week can participate in the 401(k) plan, access the Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Employee Resource Groups (ERG) and Medline Service Corps. For a more comprehensive list of our benefits, please click here.

Every day, we’re focused on building a more diverse and inclusive company, one that recognizes, values and respects the differences we all bring to the workplace. From doing what’s right to delivering business results, together, we’re better. Explore our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion page here.

Medline Industries, LP is an equal opportunity employer. Medline evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, disability/handicap status or any other legally protected characteristic.