{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"7846e85ccb44914263fe3799","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/7846e85ccb44914263fe3799","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/7846e85ccb44914263fe3799","title":"Solution Architect - Inventory & Merchandising (REMOTE)","description":"At DICK’S Sporting Goods, we believe in how positively sports can change lives. On our team, everyone plays a critical role in creating confidence and excitement by personally equipping all athletes to achieve their dreams. We are committed to creating an inclusive and diverse workforce, reflecting the communities we serve.\nIf you are ready to make a difference as part of the world’s greatest sports team, apply to join our team today!\nOVERVIEW:\nOur company is looking to invest in our future as we embark on a journey from being the best sports retailer in the world to becoming the best sports company in the world. We’re building an unrivaled and agile inventory ecosystem fueled by predictive insights, operational excellence, strategic partnerships, and empowered teams. Our goal: deliver the right product to the right place at the right time—every time. If you’re passionate about innovation, data, and making a tangible impact, Inventory360 is where you can help lead the future of retail.\nAbout the Position\nThe Solution Architect – Inventory & Merchandising is responsible for leading technology design and solutioning for DSG's most complex and strategically significant inventory and merchandising initiatives. This role spans the architecture of systems across merchandising, supply chain, store systems, omnichannel fulfillment, and enterprise data platforms — driving the design and transformation of systems to deliver modern, cloud-native solutions that unify inventory visibility, enable smarter buying decisions, and support enterprise goals.\nAs the Solution Architect – Inventory & Merchandising, you will drive end-to-end technology designs for critical business opportunities at DICK’S Sporting Goods, acting as a catalyst for innovative solutions across a cross-functional landscape. You’ll collaborate across business, product, and engineering functions to align strategic goals with technical solutions, ensuring enterprise consistency and value delivery.\nJob Purpose\nThis role works closely with business and product management to translate strategic inventory and merchandising goals into technology capabilities. The Solution Architect collaborates with domain architects, platform engineers, and product teams to guide technical designs, leveraging reference architecture patterns, maturing cross-domain shared services, and ensuring alignment with foundational technologies, security, and reliability standards.\nDirect experience with Service-Oriented and Event-Driven Architectures, Azure Cloud Technologies, Enterprise Data Platforms, merchandise planning systems (e.g., financial planning, assortment planning, buy planning), ERP platforms, supply chain and warehouse management systems, and omnichannel fulfillment platforms is desired. This role will be hands-on, collaborating with engineering and platform teams to design, build, and deliver solution spikes and proof-of-concepts to validate designs and advance DSG’s enterprise technology capabilities.\nThe Solution Architect also delivers artifacts to assess business and systems impacts, maintains current and transitional systems diagrams, and ensures non-functional requirements (security, compliance, reliability, performance) are met. They work with stakeholders to turn design options, risks, and feasibility assessments into actionable technology roadmaps.\nResponsibilities\nTechnical Leadership\nStays current on emerging technical trends, patterns, and solutions in retail inventory management, merchandising, supply chain, and enterprise data domains.\nActs as the resident expert on technology trends, influencing business and technical teams to adopt innovative solutions.\nLeads end-to-end technical architecture for initiatives, driving collaboration, communication, and hands-on development of proof-of-concepts and reference architectures.\nRecommends and leads solution architecture work, ensuring alignment with long-term business objectives, platform roadmaps, and reference architecture patterns.\nSolution Leadership\nProduces and maintains technology systems views and roadmaps for inventory and merchandising domains, ensuring accuracy and actionability for engineering, business, and foundational tech teams.\nMaintains consistent solution architecture designs, including current and transitional states, risks, feasibility, and directional roadmaps.\nDrives execution of large-scale initiatives through documentation, roadmaps, communications, and alignment with business, product, and technical plans.\nSolution Design & Delivery\nOrganizes and leads technical design discussions with engineering teams to develop robust integration and data solutions across a complex, multi-system landscape.\nAssists in translating domain and application roadmaps into actionable steps for engineering leaders.\nKeeps technical leadership informed on reviews, risks, and domain direction.\nGuides engineers in solution architecture practices, including technology evaluations, proof-of-concepts, compliance, cross-team collaboration, and alignment with platform architecture and roadmaps.\nShares best practices, technology patterns, and lessons learned, updating system architecture roadmaps and reference architectures based on evolving technologies and vendor solutions.\nDesired Tech Stack Experience\nExperience with cloud SaaS and PaaS offerings, cloud data/storage platforms, and containerized systems (e.g., Kubernetes, Azure AKS).\nProficiency in Azure Cloud services and enterprise data platforms, including operational data stores, data lakes, and analytical platforms (e.g., Databricks, Azure Synapse).\nStrong understanding of Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) and Event-Driven Architectures, including REST APIs, OpenAPI, Kafka, PubSub, Message Queues, and streaming integrations.\nFamiliarity with retail merchandise planning and inventory management systems — financial planning, assortment planning, order management, warehouse management, or equivalent.\nExperience designing real-time or near-real-time data integration solutions across heterogeneous system landscapes, including ERP platforms and supply chain systems.\nExperience refactoring monolithic applications into modern, cloud-native architectures.\nPreferred Qualifications\n7–10+ years as a technical architect in major technology implementations, ideally in retail, inventory management, supply chain, or merchandising domains is strongly preferred.\nHands-on experience with Microsoft Azure engineering and solutions.\nExperience designing solutions for inventory management, supply chain, merchandising, or omnichannel fulfillment domains — with the ability to speak credibly to business stakeholders about how retail systems work.\nProven delivery of business, solution, data, and infrastructure architectures, including reference architectures, implementations, and proof-of-concepts.\nExperience producing polished artifacts for stakeholder communication and syndication.\nStrong collaboration with Product Management and Business Stakeholders for capability scoping and roadmap planning.\nExperience leading internal and third-party vendor teams through discovery, design, and delivery of enterprise solutions.\nExpertise in full-stack integration design, compute and data storage platforms, streaming/event/queue integrations, and service-oriented/container architectures.\nFamiliarity with retail merchandise planning or inventory management platforms (financial planning, assortment planning, order management, warehouse management).\nExperience with demand forecasting, ML-driven optimization, or analytics platforms and their integration into operational retail workflows.\nExperience leading or significantly contributing to enterprise SaaS migrations or platform modernization initiatives.\nQUALIFICATIONS:\nEducation: Master's Degree or equivalent level preferred\nGeneral Experience: Substantial general work experience together with comprehensive job related experience in own area of expertise to fully competent level. (Over 6 years to 10 years)\nManagerial Experience: Experience of general supervision of more junior colleagues (7 to 12 months)\n#LI-FD1\nVIRTUAL REQUIREMENTS:\nAt DICK’S, we thrive on innovation and authenticity. That said, to protect the integrity and security of our hiring process, we ask that candidates do not use AI tools (like ChatGPT or others) during interviews or assessments.\nTo ensure a smooth and secure experience, please note the following:\nCameras must be on during all virtual interviews.\nAI tools are not permitted to be used by the candidate during any part of the interview process.\nOffers are contingent upon a satisfactory background check which may include ID verification.\nIf you have any questions or need accommodations, we’re here to help. Thanks for helping us keep the process fair and secure for everyone!\n\nTargeted Pay Range: $95,200.00 - $158,800.00. This is part of a competitive total rewards package that could include other components such as: incentive, equity and benefits. Individual pay is determined by a number of factors including experience, location, internal pay equity, and other relevant business considerations. We review all teammate pay regularly to ensure competitive and equitable pay.DICK'S Sporting Goods complies with all state paid leave requirements. We also offer a generous suite of benefits. 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On our team, everyone plays a critical role in creating confidence and excitement by personally equipping all athletes to achieve their dreams. We are committed to creating an inclusive and diverse workforce, reflecting the communities we serve.\nIf you are ready to make a difference as part of the world’s greatest sports team, apply to join our team today!\nOVERVIEW:\nOur company is looking to invest in our future as we embark on a journey from being the best sports retailer in the world to becoming the best sports company in the world. We’re building an unrivaled and agile inventory ecosystem fueled by predictive insights, operational excellence, strategic partnerships, and empowered teams. Our goal: deliver the right product to the right place at the right time—every time. If you’re passionate about innovation, data, and making a tangible impact, Inventory360 is where you can help lead the future of retail.\nAbout the Position\nThe Solution Architect – Inventory & Merchandising is responsible for leading technology design and solutioning for DSG's most complex and strategically significant inventory and merchandising initiatives. This role spans the architecture of systems across merchandising, supply chain, store systems, omnichannel fulfillment, and enterprise data platforms — driving the design and transformation of systems to deliver modern, cloud-native solutions that unify inventory visibility, enable smarter buying decisions, and support enterprise goals.\nAs the Solution Architect – Inventory & Merchandising, you will drive end-to-end technology designs for critical business opportunities at DICK’S Sporting Goods, acting as a catalyst for innovative solutions across a cross-functional landscape. You’ll collaborate across business, product, and engineering functions to align strategic goals with technical solutions, ensuring enterprise consistency and value delivery.\nJob Purpose\nThis role works closely with business and product management to translate strategic inventory and merchandising goals into technology capabilities. The Solution Architect collaborates with domain architects, platform engineers, and product teams to guide technical designs, leveraging reference architecture patterns, maturing cross-domain shared services, and ensuring alignment with foundational technologies, security, and reliability standards.\nDirect experience with Service-Oriented and Event-Driven Architectures, Azure Cloud Technologies, Enterprise Data Platforms, merchandise planning systems (e.g., financial planning, assortment planning, buy planning), ERP platforms, supply chain and warehouse management systems, and omnichannel fulfillment platforms is desired. This role will be hands-on, collaborating with engineering and platform teams to design, build, and deliver solution spikes and proof-of-concepts to validate designs and advance DSG’s enterprise technology capabilities.\nThe Solution Architect also delivers artifacts to assess business and systems impacts, maintains current and transitional systems diagrams, and ensures non-functional requirements (security, compliance, reliability, performance) are met. They work with stakeholders to turn design options, risks, and feasibility assessments into actionable technology roadmaps.\nResponsibilities\nTechnical Leadership\nStays current on emerging technical trends, patterns, and solutions in retail inventory management, merchandising, supply chain, and enterprise data domains.\nActs as the resident expert on technology trends, influencing business and technical teams to adopt innovative solutions.\nLeads end-to-end technical architecture for initiatives, driving collaboration, communication, and hands-on development of proof-of-concepts and reference architectures.\nRecommends and leads solution architecture work, ensuring alignment with long-term business objectives, platform roadmaps, and reference architecture patterns.\nSolution Leadership\nProduces and maintains technology systems views and roadmaps for inventory and merchandising domains, ensuring accuracy and actionability for engineering, business, and foundational tech teams.\nMaintains consistent solution architecture designs, including current and transitional states, risks, feasibility, and directional roadmaps.\nDrives execution of large-scale initiatives through documentation, roadmaps, communications, and alignment with business, product, and technical plans.\nSolution Design & Delivery\nOrganizes and leads technical design discussions with engineering teams to develop robust integration and data solutions across a complex, multi-system landscape.\nAssists in translating domain and application roadmaps into actionable steps for engineering leaders.\nKeeps technical leadership informed on reviews, risks, and domain direction.\nGuides engineers in solution architecture practices, including technology evaluations, proof-of-concepts, compliance, cross-team collaboration, and alignment with platform architecture and roadmaps.\nShares best practices, technology patterns, and lessons learned, updating system architecture roadmaps and reference architectures based on evolving technologies and vendor solutions.\nDesired Tech Stack Experience\nExperience with cloud SaaS and PaaS offerings, cloud data/storage platforms, and containerized systems (e.g., Kubernetes, Azure AKS).\nProficiency in Azure Cloud services and enterprise data platforms, including operational data stores, data lakes, and analytical platforms (e.g., Databricks, Azure Synapse).\nStrong understanding of Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) and Event-Driven Architectures, including REST APIs, OpenAPI, Kafka, PubSub, Message Queues, and streaming integrations.\nFamiliarity with retail merchandise planning and inventory management systems — financial planning, assortment planning, order management, warehouse management, or equivalent.\nExperience designing real-time or near-real-time data integration solutions across heterogeneous system landscapes, including ERP platforms and supply chain systems.\nExperience refactoring monolithic applications into modern, cloud-native architectures.\nPreferred Qualifications\n7–10+ years as a technical architect in major technology implementations, ideally in retail, inventory management, supply chain, or merchandising domains is strongly preferred.\nHands-on experience with Microsoft Azure engineering and solutions.\nExperience designing solutions for inventory management, supply chain, merchandising, or omnichannel fulfillment domains — with the ability to speak credibly to business stakeholders about how retail systems work.\nProven delivery of business, solution, data, and infrastructure architectures, including reference architectures, implementations, and proof-of-concepts.\nExperience producing polished artifacts for stakeholder communication and syndication.\nStrong collaboration with Product Management and Business Stakeholders for capability scoping and roadmap planning.\nExperience leading internal and third-party vendor teams through discovery, design, and delivery of enterprise solutions.\nExpertise in full-stack integration design, compute and data storage platforms, streaming/event/queue integrations, and service-oriented/container architectures.\nFamiliarity with retail merchandise planning or inventory management platforms (financial planning, assortment planning, order management, warehouse management).\nExperience with demand forecasting, ML-driven optimization, or analytics platforms and their integration into operational retail workflows.\nExperience leading or significantly contributing to enterprise SaaS migrations or platform modernization initiatives.\nQUALIFICATIONS:\nEducation: Master's Degree or equivalent level preferred\nGeneral Experience: Substantial general work experience together with comprehensive job related experience in own area of expertise to fully competent level. (Over 6 years to 10 years)\nManagerial Experience: Experience of general supervision of more junior colleagues (7 to 12 months)\n#LI-FD1\nVIRTUAL REQUIREMENTS:\nAt DICK’S, we thrive on innovation and authenticity. That said, to protect the integrity and security of our hiring process, we ask that candidates do not use AI tools (like ChatGPT or others) during interviews or assessments.\nTo ensure a smooth and secure experience, please note the following:\nCameras must be on during all virtual interviews.\nAI tools are not permitted to be used by the candidate during any part of the interview process.\nOffers are contingent upon a satisfactory background check which may include ID verification.\nIf you have any questions or need accommodations, we’re here to help. Thanks for helping us keep the process fair and secure for everyone!\n\nTargeted Pay Range: $95,200.00 - $158,800.00. This is part of a competitive total rewards package that could include other components such as: incentive, equity and benefits. Individual pay is determined by a number of factors including experience, location, internal pay equity, and other relevant business considerations. We review all teammate pay regularly to ensure competitive and equitable pay.DICK'S Sporting Goods complies with all state paid leave requirements. We also offer a generous suite of benefits. To learn more, visit www.benefityourliferesources.com.","datePosted":"2026-07-15T14:02:30.712Z","dateModified":"2026-07-15T14:02:30.712Z","hiringOrganization":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Dick","sameAs":"https://jobsearcher.com"},"jobLocationType":"TELECOMMUTE","applicantLocationRequirements":{"@type":"Country","name":"US"},"identifier":{"@type":"PropertyValue","name":"JobSearcher","value":"7846e85ccb44914263fe3799"},"url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/7846e85ccb44914263fe3799"}}