A Zoro Architect is an experienced senior technologist with the ability to work from stated business intent all the way through guiding the technology implementation.
Zoro Architects are comfortable interacting with business leaders, technology leadership, technical implementation teams, customers, and each other.
A Zoro Architect exhibits the highest levels of integrity, ownership, team play, mentoring, and collaboration.
The Zoro Microservices Architect is an expert-level specialist in the decomposition of legacy application monoliths into their equivalent distributed services or "coarse grained objects".
This individual has a strong understanding of how business growth at the $1 Billion+ level drives systems and platform change. Strong preference given to candidates with demonstrated backgrounds in industrial B2B eCommerce.
They have demonstrated experience in harmonizing existing legacy platforms with forward-looking microservices architecture.
They are able to design, and then lead, a migration from the legacy to the new architecture. This position requires the individual to be able to switch between the "big picture" organizational view of their role to the detailed implementation view comfortably and seamlessly.
Expert level understanding of messaging middleware, pub-sub architectures, asynchronous computing, and producer-consumer abstractions.
Expert level understanding of "share nothing" distributed architectures.
Expert level understanding of event-driven distributed compute from web front end through logistics fulfillment.
Expert level understanding of cloud and container technologies.
Senior level understanding of other architectural disciplines such as Front End, Back End, Data, and eCommerce.
Functional understanding of TCP/IP networking, routing, firewalling, and network programming.
General understanding of higher level protocols like dns, smtp, ssh, nfs, and http.
Functional understanding of IT monitoring, logging, alerting, and general operations.
MS Computer Science or equivalent work experience.
Work experience in industrial eCommerce is highly desired.
Strong systems thinker with conceptual and structural orientation. Able to "begin with the end in mind".
Able to articulate the tradeoffs between time, cost, complexity, and quality when making design decisions.
Outstanding verbal and written communications skills. Able to convey high complexity topics in clear and essential form.
Natural team player with strong conflict resolution and consensus building skills.
Comfortable making decisions with incomplete information. Able to work comfortably in constantly changing environment. Designs for future unknowns.
Demonstrated experience leading high complexity technical initiatives from concept through implementation.
Familiar with enterprise security and compliance disciplines.
Able to understand business-driven requirements and translate them into actionable technology initiatives.
Zoro has an awesome test and learn culture where you can try new things and see what works and what doesn't and, most importantly, learn from those lessons and drive improvements. We constantly look for ways to do that - whether it is tools, engagement, processes or empowerment. We share best practices, feedback and suggestions from our agents.