The Solutions Architect is a senior development role primarily responsible for defining, planning, and executing 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.
• 100% of our team works remotely with the support of time tracking software. Our company culture specializes in supporting remote team members, a practice maintained for over a decade. CT welcomes your application globally.

YOUR DUTIES AND TASKS:

• Educate prospects on different platform solutions (e.g., BigCommerce, Shopify, Magento, WordPress, etc.) by providing a consultative, best practices approach, including analysis and analytics to match business and technical requirements.
• Conduct needs analysis and technical scoping sessions with prospective customers to gather and document key requirements.
• Provide pre-sales technical consulting to the Sales staff by participating in online demonstrations, conference calls, and site visits with our project managers.
• Document prospective client needs and project requirements.
• Become a trusted advisor and the voice of the sales and marketing teams to our prospects and partners.
• Work closely with the sales team to respond to proposals and RFPs, ensuring that all technical information and recommendations address client requirements.
• Work with third-party partners or solutions where necessary in developing custom solutions to meet prospect needs.
• Help create thought leadership content, white papers, and other sales or marketing collateral that highlights our agency capabilities for partners, prospects, and clients.
• Develop new processes and practices to ensure our teams operate as industry leaders in their respective fields.
• Keep 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.
• Lead 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).
• Support design and project management team members during project discovery to ensure UX best practices and scopes of work are anticipated for future project phases.
• Provide emergency development support for key Coalition clients and major accounts.

YOU SHOULD HAVE:

• 4-5+ years of 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 e-commerce 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.

Compensation Details:

For California, New York, Washington, and Colorado, the 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.