Solution Architect - Athlete (REMOTE)
Dick's Sporting Goods- Full Time
- Junior (1 to 2 years)
Candidates should possess a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, demonstrating technology leadership experience and a proven ability to design, build, and operate scalable systems through others. Strong knowledge of microservices architecture, containerization and orchestration paradigms, messaging and streaming systems, along with familiarity with .net, kafka and kubernetes technologies is preferred. A deep understanding of system observability, monitoring, and alerting, coupled with experience in infrastructure and CI/CD tooling within a DevOps culture, is also required. Candidates should have a culture of testing automation at multiple levels, including unit tests and end-to-end tests, and the ability to analyze and optimize performance-related bottlenecks.
As a Software Architect, you will build and guide the evolution of core systems responsible for ingesting, processing, and delivering sports data across the platform, ensuring a resilient, scalable, and performant system. You will own the technical vision and architectural runway, champion best practices across the domain through technical leadership and mentorship, and collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, and Infrastructure teams to align business priorities with system capabilities. This includes translating functional and non-functional requirements into clear architectural documents, mentoring engineers, supporting technical design reviews, and facilitating knowledge sharing, as well as evaluating emerging tools and platforms to inform future strategy and shaping the technical direction of the domain within a multi-tenant, global environment with real-time data requirements.
Online platform for fantasy sports and betting
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