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Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
Hybrid
Solution Architect – Hybrid
Hybrid work arrangement. Travel as needed.
Come build something that matters.
It takes great people to achieve greatness. People with a sense of purpose and integrity. People with a relentless pursuit of excellence. People who care about making things better For Those Who Make The World™. Sound like you? Join our top-notch team of approximately 43,500 diverse and high-performing professionals globally who are making their mark on some of the world’s most beloved brands, including DEWALT®, BLACK+DECKER®, CRAFTSMAN®, STANLEY®, CUB CADET®, and HUSTLER®.
The Job:
As a Solution Architect, you’ll be part of our technology organization working as a hybrid employee. In this role, you will provide technical and functional expertise across a portfolio of solutions within your business domain. You will partner with Business Relationship Managers, product teams, business stakeholders, Enterprise Architecture, and external partners to define solution roadmaps, shape high-level designs, and ensure solutions meet business needs as well as architecturally significant functional and nonfunctional requirements. You’ll get to:
· Provide vision, oversight, and coordination across a portfolio of technical solutions being developed within the domain.
· Translate business domain context into technical capabilities for architects and development teams, and define solution approaches that address business requirements and gaps.
· Document high-level solution designs, support effort and skill estimation, and help maintain scope while managing approved changes.
· Conduct and guide application scans and risk reviews to validate that privacy, security, and risk policies are met.
· Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture and peer Solution Architects to align solutions with architecture principles, guardrails, standards, patterns, and frameworks.
· Lead solutioning workshops, whiteboarding sessions, and stakeholder roadshows while promoting an AI-first approach to business capability and solution architecture.
The Person:
You love to learn and grow and be acknowledged for your valuable contributions. You’re not intimidated by innovation. Wouldn’t it be great if you could do your job and do a world of good? In fact, you embrace it. You also have:
· An undergraduate degree with 13+ years of relevant experience, or a graduate degree with 10–12 years of relevant experience.
· Strong business acumen and familiarity with SDLC methodologies, including Waterfall, Agile, Scrum, and iterative development.
· Experience connecting solutions across systems, developing business cases, estimating project scope and duration, and simplifying complex concepts and processes.
· Technical knowledge of integration technologies, cloud and infrastructure platforms, SOA, data architecture and modeling, AI tools and LLMs, and web/mobile technologies.
· Excellent communication, problem-solving, prioritization, collaboration, and change-management skills, with a strong growth mindset and the ability to influence.
The Details:
You’ll receive a competitive salary and a great benefits plan, including:
And More:
We want our company to be a place you’ll want to be – and stay. Being part of our team means you’ll get to:
What’s more, you’ll get that pride that comes from empowering makers, doers, protectors, and everyday heroes all over the world. We’re more than the #1 tools company. More than a driving force in outdoor power equipment. More than a global leader in industrial. We’re visionaries and innovators. As successful as we’ve been in the past, we have so much further to go. That’s where you come in. Join us!
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The Salary range for this position is $110,600.00 - $178,000.00
This is the lowest to highest annual full-time salary range we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. The salary offered within the range may vary depending on multiple factors including job level, geographic location, job-related knowledge, skills, qualifications, experience and in compliance with local wage requirements. Please note that salary is only one component of total rewards at Stanley Black & Decker.
The salary range listed in this job posting reflects the range for the primary location specified. The salary range may vary for other locations.
The successful candidate may be eligible for annual merit increases.
Medical, dental, life, vision, disability,401(k), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, paid time off, and tuition reimbursement in addition to programs & benefits in support of your well-being.
Discounts on Stanley Black & Decker tool sand other partner programs.
We Don’t Just Build The World, We Build Innovative Technology Too.
Joining the Stanley Black & Decker team means working in an innovative, tech-driven and highly collaborative team environment supported by over 43,500 professionals in 60 countries across the globe. Here, you’ll get the unique chance to impact some of the world’s most iconic brands including STANLEY TOOLS, DEWALT, CRAFTSMAN, MAC TOOLS and Black + Decker. Your ideas and solutions have the potential to reach millions of customers as we work together to write the next chapter in our history. Come build with us and take your career to new heights.
Who We Are
We’re the World’s largest tool company. We’re industry visionaries. We’re solving problems and advancing the manufacturing trade through innovative technology and our Industry 4.0 Initiative. We are committed to ensuring our state-of-the-art “smart factory” products and services provide greater quality to our customers & greater environmental and social value to our planet. We are unique in that we have a rich and storied history dating back to 1843, but that hasn't stopped us from evolving into a vibrant, diverse, global growth company.
What You’ll Also Get
Career Opportunity: Career paths aren’t linear here. Being part of our global company with 60+ brands gives you the chance to grow and develop your skills along multiple career paths.
Benefits & Perks
You’ll get a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits plan that includes medical, dental, life, vision, wellness program, disability, retirement benefits, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, Paid Time Off, including paid vacation, holidays & personal days, and tuition reimbursement. And, of course, discounts on Stanley Black & Decker tools and products and well as discount programs for many other vendors and partners.
Learning & Development:
Our lifelong learning philosophy means you’ll have access to a wealth of state-of-the-art learning resources, including our Lean Academy and online university (where you can get certificates and specializations from renowned colleges and universities).
Diverse & Inclusive Culture:
We pride ourselves on being an awesome place to work. We respect and embrace differences because that’s how the best work gets done. You’ll find we like to have fun here, too.
Purpose-Driven Company:
You’ll help us continue to make positive changes in the local communities where we work and live as well as in the broader world through volunteerism, giving back and sustainable business practices.
EEO Statement:
All qualified applicants to Stanley Black & Decker are considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran’s status or any other protected characteristic.
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