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Company: Staples, Inc.   
Status: closed

The Company

Staples, Inc. is headquartered outside of Boston and sells a wide range of office products, including supplies, technology, furniture, and business services. With 2004 sales of $14.4 billion, Staples is committed to make buying office products easy. Approximately 60,000 associates serve consumers and businesses of all sizes - from home-based businesses to Fortune 500 companies in the US, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. Staples invented the office superstore concept and today, with nearly 1,600 office superstores, is the largest operator of office superstores in the world.
Staples also serves its customers through its mail order catalog, e-commerce and contract businesses. More information is available at http://www.staples.com.


The Position    

Sr. IS Architect - J2EE, E-Commerce (local candidates preferred) #12717BR

Responsibilities

This position will focus on several e-commerce systems and call center systems in the Staples Delivery business unit.  Individuals with extensive Architect/Leadership experience in e-commerce initiatives for enterprise systems in a J2EE environment will be considered.  Consulting experience is a strong plus.   The Sr. Application Architect will:

• Provide consultation and leadership to multiple project teams

• Ensure projects are aligned with the IS Strategy and compliant with technical standards.

• Identify opportunities based on technical knowledge and industry trends.

• Serve as the technical application design authority on multiple projects 

• Create macro design (high-level design).

• Facilitate initial meeting with development lead to agree on process for design.

• Establish regular meetings to review technical designs and provide mentoring and guidance.

• Mentor development teams on object-oriented analysis and design of distributed, web-based architectures.

• Mentor on all aspects of Java-based design (J2EE Architecture, application design, tooling, best practices, standards, etc.)

• Maintain a knowledge base of emerging technologies and products.

• Work with our software vendors to understand and leverage existing product capabilities and shape direction of the product to best benefit Staples.

• Meet new vendors to increase awareness of technology trends and assess the potential benefits to Staples.  

• Create technical standards and best practices, leveraging industry standards.

• Communicate and evangelize the use of standards and how the vision of a services-oriented architecture can be realized.

• Create processes and techniques that will improve performance and maintainability of applications.

• Perform technical assessments for a range of circumstances: application hosting, business acquisition, software vendor, etc.

• Develop a deep understanding of Staples’ business strategies.

• Advise senior IS leadership (technical skills required, organizational structure).

• Build and sustain commitment to IS strategy by mentoring lead developers and advising IS management.

• Shape technical strategies by working with enterprise architecture group (Technology, Strategy and Architecture Group).

• In collaboration with enterprise architecture group, develop future state vision of a services-oriented architecture (SOA).  Create and maintain evolutionary plans to move future state vision of SOA.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science

• Pluses:  Masters of Science in Computer Science or related discipline, Specialized training or courses beyond college, Java certification or J2EE enterprise architect certification

• Exceptional leadership, mentoring, listening and communication skills

• Strong ability to influence without having direct authority.

• Demonstrated ability to manage conflicting needs of stakeholders and development teams.

• Possesses and exudes extraordinary optimism.

• Business acumen, experience, and discipline to ensure business strategy and IS architecture align.

• Understands Staples business and their competitors.

• Ability to translate business strategy into technical terms and technology strategy into business terms.

• Demonstrated ability to evaluate complex architecture problems resulting in appropriate decisions which factor in technical, business and organizational constraints.

• Exceptional design abilities with a particular focus on object-oriented analysis and design.

• Exceptional ability in building architectures that business strategy & requirements with emphasis on business delivery, performance, availability, scalability, security, maintainability, extensibility, configuration, integration, systems management and operations.

• 10 years experience designing large, complex systems of varying types: client-server, mainframe, distributed, component-based and services-oriented architectures.

• 10 years in a leadership role that provided technical oversight to multiple projects at the same time.

• 10 years experience building highly scalable, e-commerce systems that are based on J2EE technologies (e.g., IBM Websphere or BEA Weblogic)

• A plus if you have specific experience with the following:
• iSeries (ILE RPG)
• ERP package implementations (e.g., SAP, Oracle/Peoplesoft, J.D. Edwards)
• Broad knowledge of one or more of the following:
• networking concepts like load balancing
• operating systems: AIX, Linux, OS/400
• hardware platforms: iSeries, pSeries, x86
• database technologies: DB2 or Oracle
• virtualization technologies: VMWare or vendor-specific implementations

To Apply 

Position is now closed.

 (added 11/2/05)