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.

• 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.