Sr. Manager, Solutions Architect (MARTECH)

Values & Innovation

At Under Armour, we are committed to empowering those who strive for more, and the company's values - Act Sustainably, Celebrate the Wins, Fight on Together, Love Athletes and Stand for Equality - serve as both a roadmap for our teams and the qualities expected of every teammate.

Our Values define and unite us, the beliefs that are the red thread that connects everyone at Under Armour. Our values are rallying cries, reminding us why we're here, and fueling everything we do.

Our pursuit of better begins with innovation and with our team's mission of being the best. With us, you get the freedom to go further - no matter your role. That means developing, delivering, and selling the state-of-the-art products and digital tools that make top performers even better.

If you are a current Under Armour teammate, apply to this position on the Internal Career Site Here. 

Purpose of Role

Solutions Architects (SA) provide a bridge between specific business opportunities and the technology solutions which are needed to support them.  They require a knowledge of the Enterprise Architecture, as one of their roles is to ensure compliance with the Enterprise Architecture in the project.  
SA roles are mostly project facing and provide two areas of support: 

• With a business focus, ensuring the solution meets with the business requirements.
• With an enterprise focus ensuring that the enterprise requirements for reuse, compliance to standards, principles, traceability to enterprise reference models, and alignment with the target enterprise architecture vision.

As an SA of Salesforce Marketing Cloud (SFMC) at Under Armour, you will work closely with business and Global Technology leaders and will lead the design, development and implementation of new solutions within the Marketing space at Under Armour. You will also provide leadership and oversight during the full lifecycle to ensure the deliverables meet the business requirements, meet high standards of quality and adherence to architectural standards.  In addition, the SA is responsible for managing a team of both direct and indirect reports (SFMC developers), partnering with business process owners and our Global Tech organization to drive the business case review process, and reviewing requirements and providing high level solutions to determine level of effort and estimated costs.   
 

Your Impact

• Partner with domain architects to translate strategic target architecture to executable design to drive execution of projects.  
• Support active projects throughout the lifecycle, providing oversight and guidance on development objects to ensure consistency with original design as well as overall quality of deliverables 
• Investigates operational requirements and seeks effective business solutions through the design and implementation of technology solutions and/or business process improvements
• Proactively identify gaps and opportunities to improve existing functionality.  Lead design process, and then either drive delivery process directly, or transition to support analyst teams to drive completion of deliver
• Build, lead, and manage a small team performing SFMC development (inclusive of Journey Builder, Ad Studio, Interaction Studio, etc.)
• Lead and project manage multiple simultaneous cross-functional initiatives (i.e. set process, deadlines, deliverables, synthesize status updates) end-to-end.
• Taking responsibility for and reviewing your entire organizations work to ensure all requirements are met and raise any issue, delays or possible complications with business leadership
• Coaching and navigating your team through changing prioritizations, technologies, and dynamics
• Adept at understanding and facilitating end-to-end system implementations and the impact on the Marketing user groups.
• Answer the 'tough questions', navigate tense situations and push-back when necessary within your organization and outside of your organization
• Bridge the gap between strategic and operational initiatives with your team to align into a cohesive vision
• Contributes project artifacts to architecture repositories, and ensures ongoing maintenance
• Partners with solution architects from other areas to create cohesive, integrated, and supportable solutions
• Support development of project business cases by evaluating business requirements and using deep knowledge of business processes and solutions capabilities in area determine high level solution and level of effort estimates
• Support prioritization process for smaller,