Toptal: Stibo Sr. Architect/Platform Owner for Global Fortune 500
Source: weworkremotely
About the Role
Within the client's Global Information Services (GIS) organization is a team of dedicated resources building a digital center of excellence. This team is made up of diverse skillsets, roles, and unique perspectives that allow us to research, design, build, and experiment with tools that customers and internal employees find useful, usable, and delightful. These digital offerings connect our customers and partners to our products, services, solutions, and talent, driving an increase in engagement, loyalty, retention, and sales.
The Stibo Platform Architect will work closely with our digital center of excellence, integration architects, enterprise architects, IT product owners, business digital product managers, and partners to develop a deep understanding of our business strategies and user journeys.
Leveraging this understanding, the Platform Owner – Stibo is responsible for establishing a common framework to build and run the product data, asset management, syndication of data, and product visualization tools supporting the company’s initiatives. This role will set the vision and strategy needed to ensure rapid, iterative development and global deployment of industry best features. Specifically, this role ensures we have a comprehensive, nimble, modern, secure, modular, and scalable platform.
- Reports to: GIS Product Leader – MDM Product, Program, and Practice
- Span of Control: Individual Contributor
Job Responsibilities
Knowing Our Businesses and their Strategies
- Build relationships within the organization, cross-functionally, and with key business stakeholders; continuously enhance connection to remain aligned with core objectives.
- Understand the strategic direction of the company’s businesses and execute technical strategies to enhance business results.
- Lead conversations while setting direction for the team, processes, and managed relationships.
- Obtain outside-in market insights to understand and apply best-in-class IT service organization practices.
Executing Strategy
- Platform Leadership for Product Management, Data Syndication, and Integration Design with Platform Owners of Publication, Content Management Systems, ERPs, MES, and CRMs.
- Lead the design and implementation of the data management application framework and architecture for large-scale, scalable product data management and syndication systems.
- Establish reusable and extensible code bases and platforms that serve business, marketing, and customer strategies.
- Execute, consult, and advise on product implementation strategies, upgrades, and integration processes.
- Establish and maintain alliances with key partners and champion IT product concepts and strategies.
- Ensure the development and execution of business plans for the chosen platform.
- Participate in defining product strategies and pricing standards.
- Create technical approaches/roadmaps for critical use cases.
- Evaluate and maintain partnerships with key internal and external development teams.
- Craft initial solution options including work categorization and estimates across major disciplines (UX, Analytics, Front/Back End, Data Integration, DevOps, QA, Security, and Architecture).
- Collaborate with DevOps, IT project managers, product owners, and technology architects to plan platform application and infrastructure upgrades and product releases.
Architecture and Solution Delivery
- Lead digital architecture, design, and standards of the platform.
- Identify needs, research and prototype options, and communicate impacts or potential challenges.
- Lead architectural reviews for the platform via the GIS Architecture Review Board.
- Share thought processes and evaluation techniques with other architects and technical resources.
Innovate and Think Strategically
- Partner with GIS, business, and commercial leadership to formulate and maintain a technical product platform roadmap.
- Conduct market research and analysis to identify trends to influence platform development.
- Proactively engage with platform technology vendors to understand their product roadmaps.
Influencing in the Function
- Identify areas of waste and execute action plans to create productivity.
- Participate in special programs or projects that support long-term strategic goals.
- Lead opportunities to improve the effectiveness, value, and perception of the organization.
Developing Talent
- Invest in personal growth and development.
- Foster a high-performing, well-connected global team culture that emphasizes collaboration, accountability, curiosity, and innovation.
Job Requirements
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field (or equivalent experience).
- 5+ years of experience with MDM, PIM, DAM, Syndication, and Stibo.
- 5+ years of experience in IT-focused projects including websites, portals, apps, mobile, data integration, and analytics.
- 5+ years working directly with business teams (commercial/business) translating needs into technical implementation.
- Preferred: Knowledge in Salsify & InDesign.
Experience
- Demonstrated expertise in understanding workflows and business processes, identifying issues, and providing solutions leveraging PIM/MDM/DAM/Syndication technologies.
- Data management with highly integrated systems; experience designing hierarchy and data precedence rules.
- Data categorization, classification, and hierarchy (inheritance modeling).
- Working experience in Data Stewardship, Data governance, and Product Lifecycle.
- Functional experience using STEP for scheduling and monitoring batch processes.
- Understanding of Salsify and syndication software.
- Understanding of Agile and Waterfall project management methodologies.
- Proficient in estimating work and project scheduling/sprint planning.
Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities
- Demonstrated experience collaborating across regions.
- Experience leading resolution of service issues with internal teams and external providers.
- Experience in supplier relationships (on-shore or off-shore).
- Experience analyzing and presenting data-driven performance results.
- Experience using an ITSM platform (ServiceNow strongly preferred).
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to convey information clearly with confidence and active listening.
- Ability to build trust, connections, and influence stakeholders.
- Excellent interpersonal, communication, and team-facilitation skills.
- Global mindset; ability to travel ~10% (domestic and international).