Imagine something you can do today that you couldn’t do in the past – like paying for groceries without opening your wallet. Extenda Retail is a market-leading company with extensive retail and logistics knowledge. Our innovations touch everyday lives. Join a company that simplifies shopping and inspires retailers and logistics businesses to go further.

Our Cloud native POS-system, Hii (High Intensity Intelligent) Retail, is a powerful checkout solution designed for Fast-Moving Consumer Goods. It enables Unified Commerce at scale, offering an open architecture and APIs for rapid implementation and seamless, personalized customer experiences. Whether in physical stores, online, or across both, Hii Retail ensures consistency and efficiency across all channels, delivering the flexibility and performance retailers need to thrive

We are looking for a Solutions Architect that will support us in positioning our solution towards both existing and new clients and take part in building custom solutions and translate requirements into architectural design that constitutes the blueprint for the solution. 

In this role you will analyze the client’s retail processes and information flows where you consider the customer position while implementing solutions based on best practices. Your task is to document, anchor and safeguard the customer solution with regards to functionality, usability, structure and support the business processes in the solution. 

Your mission is to continuously evolve the customer's retail solution and document the proposed solution to a high standard using best practices and promote the use of standard products. You will design end to end processes and architecture based on process requirements, application and system landscape. Part of your mission is to drive excellence in the solution and communicate technical vision by building close, collaborative relationships internally as well as externally. 

Responsibilities of the role

• Analysis of client’s Retail processes, information flows, functional and technical requirements and documenting the proposed solution to a high standard using best practices and promoting use of standard products.
• Design end to end processes and architecture based on process requirements, application and system landscape and advice regarding the best practice regarding solutions based on the different Extenda Retail products
• Analyze and define requirements for customer-specific development needs or integration requirements. Structure and define functional requirements in written form as well as models
• Implementation of business processes including customizing and custom development
• Review of business processes and corresponding mapping into IT architecture
• Ensure that product solutions adhere to the market changes and advice on future roadmap. 
• Ensure that the agreed strategies are followed & implemented, i.e., Integration, Security, Development & Test strategies
• Responsible for the overall customer solution architecture
• Responsible for ensuring that the organization's professional needs are covered through functional descriptions
• Lead and educate solutions/development teams on requirements
• Coach development teams in best practices, CI/CD pipelines and architecture
• Ensure that codebase is compliant with existing and new requirements through code review processes
• Lead and implement new optimized best practices in development, design and documentation
• Documenting, following best practice of the solutions the team develops:
  • Information flow
  • Non-functional/Quality requirements
  • Technical requirements
  • Guide and support the customer team in architectural question

We think you are

A self-motivated solutions architect with a great understanding of the retail business. We think that you are a skilled communicator who can tailor the message depending on the audience. You also have leadership skills with the ability to coach and mentor senior engineers in functional excellence and solution design.

In the role as solutions architect you will work in close collaboration of both internal and external stakeholders whereas your ability to build trust is paramount to your success. You will also need a curious mindset that never stops learning and actively keeps up to date with market trends and changes. With your expertise in engineering you provide guidance to the wider business on technology with the aim to meet commercial requirements.

Skills and requirements

• Higher level of education within Engineering and/or IT
• Knowledge and experience in software development
• Agile Development Methodologies 
• Understanding of modern architectural design principles and patterns including cloud technologies such as kubernetes
• Retail knowledge and/or interest
• Business Acumen

Technical skill set

• Java
• Docker
• MSSQL
• MySQL 
• Git
• Microservices
• CI/CD Methodologies
• Relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL

Location

Stockholm or Gothenburg