Solutions Architect

The Solutions Architect for Coalition Technologies is a senior development role whose primary responsibility is to help define, plan, and execute on web design and development projects. You will work closely with our sales and strategy team, project managers, designers and developers. Additional key responsibilities may include front end or back end development work on higher value or higher complexity projects. The Solutions Architect will report directly to the Director of Design and Development and President.

WHY YOU SHOULD APPLY:

Coalition Technologies is devoted to delivering the highest quality work for clients while providing our team a fun, thriving, and innovative environment. Along with the opportunity for tremendous career growth and rapid advancement, CT offers:

• The most competitive profit-sharing bonus plan in the industry, paying up to 50% of company profits to full-time employees each month!
• A highly competitive Paid Time Off plan, promoting quality work-life balance.
• Subsidized gym memberships to help team members feel their best.
• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance packages for all US-based team members.
• International Health Insurance Reimbursement Program for all international team members, a benefit unique to Coalition.
• Device upgrade and learning reimbursement programs.
• Motivating career development plans with clearly defined goals and rewards.
• Additional job-specific incentives and bonuses.
• Plus, 100% of our team works remotely with the support of time tracking software. Our company culture specializes in supporting remote team members, and we’ve been doing so for more than a decade. CT welcomes your application, wherever in the world it's coming from!

YOUR DUTIES AND TASKS:

• Educating prospects on different platforms’ (e.g., BigCommerce, Shopify, Magento, WordPress, etc.) solutions by providing a consultative, best practices approach including analysis and analytics to match the prospect’s business and technical requirements.
• Conducting needs analysis and technical scoping sessions with prospective customers to gather and document key requirements.
• Providing pre-sales technical consulting to the Sales staff by participating in online demonstrations, conference calls and site visits with our project managers.
• Documentating prospective client needs and project requirements.
• Becoming a trusted advisor and the voice of the sales and marketing teams to our prospects and partners.
• Working closely with the sales team to respond to proposals and RFPs to ensure that all technical information and recommendations address client requirements.
• Where necessary, working with third party partners or solutions in developing custom solutions to meet prospect needs.
• Helping create thought leadership content, white papers, and other sales or marketing collateral that highlights our agency capabilities for partners, prospects and clients.
• Developing new processes and practices to ensure our teams operate as industry leaders in their respective fields.
• Keeping up to date with the latest features, capabilities, and applications released by different platforms to ensure we can provide the best guidance to our clients.
• Leading internal project planning and development of recurring solutions for frequent client needs (examples may include web application development for frequently requested features of e-commerce merchants).
• Supporting design and project management team members during project discovery to ensure UX best practices and scopes of work are anticipated for future project phases.
• Providing emergency development support for key Coalition clients and major accounts.

YOU SHOULD HAVE:

• 4-5+ years Solutions Engineering experience in a relevant market or in a similar senior level development position.
• Strong knowledge of web technologies including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP.
• Experience with different ecommerce and cms platforms such as BigCommerce, Shopify, Magento, and WordPress.
• Experienced in solution architecture, project scoping and product demonstration skills.
• Comfort with a consultative presentation to C-level business executives as well as detailed, in-depth discussions with a technical audience.
• Experience with commerce solutions and applications including POS, product catalogs, order management, ERP and payment gateways.
• Sales methodology and solution selling training a plus.
• A charismatic and energetic self-starting personality.
• Ability to collaborate with and motivate multiple groups toward accomplishing a task.
• Strong verbal, presentation, written, and organizational skills with a passion for winning.

California, New York, Washington, and Colorado: starting base pay for this position ranges between $22.50 - $35 per hour. Compensation may vary based on factors such as experience, qualifications, skills test performance, geographic location, and seniority of the position offered. Outside of California, New York, Washington, and Colorado compensation may fall outside the above ranges.