The Opportunity

LDS Digital Solutions Architects are savvy, strategic technology consultants with experience imagining and designing industry-leading employee and worker experiences for our Fortune 500 clients who will:

• Provide architectural insights as they work on some of our client’s most strategic, complex, and highly valued initiatives
• Partner with client executives and stakeholders to develop strategies, plan, design, iterate and enable consumer-grade digital solutions that interoperate across myriad devices, channels, products, and platforms
• Reason through and contextualize technology enablers, constraints and interoperability approaches in our clients’ enterprise ecosystems
• Engage and influence clients and stakeholders on matters of technical approach and methodology

Your Success

You are a collaborative enterprise architect who is excited by the prospect of tackling complex problems and conceptualizing new, modern technology approaches. You are passionate about improving employee & worker experiences and advancing business outcomes through technology & architecture. You have strong management and organizational skills, and you are an inspired lifelong learner. You thrive in an environment with diverse, multi-disciplinary partners in content strategy, user experience design, business strategy, and visual design.

To be successful in this role, you should have:

• 10+ years of experience in product management or an IT or management consulting firm
• Broad experience and knowledge of major HR and IT enterprise technologies & trends (from Legacy to emerging)
• Working knowledge of public, private and hybrid cloud architecture and building cloud-native solutions in one or more of the following cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP, ServiceNow)
• Experience with systems integration (including delivering projects related to COTS, ERP, HCM, content management and other custom solutions) and deep expertise in software development methodologies
• The ability to concisely synthesize and communicate complex topics in digestible narratives to non-technical leaders
• An ability to provide best practice guidance on architectural approaches across enterprise ecosystems, as well as an ability to translate business objectives to architecture requirements
• An ability to formulate and present strategic points of view on relevant industry trends and enterprise digital strategy
• Proven consulting skills that include active-listening, tact, negotiation and an ability to influence through fact-based reasoning
• Cultivated knowledge of evolving trends and advancements in enterprise technology, so as to be able to formulate architecture strategies and approaches
• The ability to define holistic strategies that align technology enablers with business outcomes
• A passion for exploring new and emerging technologies to envision how technology will shape the future of employee and worker experiences
• An ability to develop strong, collaborative relationships with our clients’ leadership team and our studio leads

Extra credit goes to candidates who have:

• Certifications in solution architecture from a recognized organization
• A record of accomplishment of learning and implementing technologies from a broad spectrum, including a working familiarity with one or more technologies like cloud development, mobile development, AI/ML, blockchain, IoT, etc.
• Engagement leadership experience that includes leading a high-performance team, managing junior level consulting staff, providing regular status updates, monitoring project economics, as well as managing client relationships
• Experience in similar consulting firms and demonstrated record of accomplishment in providing consulting services to organizations

The Teams

Our team is made up of multi-disciplined, like-minded, creative individuals who share a passion for elegant and thoughtful experiences for enterprise consumers. A career at LDS affords access to the most prestigious organizations in the world, at very senior levels. You will collaborate with thought-leaders, creators and technology partners who shape industry dialog and create future norms. The work you do here will transform the employee and worker experience for hundreds of thousands of people.