Salary Range: $100,000 To $120,000 Annually

The Opportunity

As part of our talented and driven technology team, the Solutions Architect plays an important role in delivering business outcomes through well-designed, scalable, and secure technology solutions. The Solutions Architect partners closely with product owners, engineering teams, and business stakeholders to translate business needs into technical designs that align with enterprise standards and strategic direction. This role is hands-on, delivery-focused, and helps in ensuring solutions are practical, maintainable, and aligned with our long-term technology vision.

The Solutions Architect bridges the gap between business goals and technical execution— supporting solution design activities, collaborating with implementation teams, and ensuring quality outcomes that support Great Clips’ mission, vision, and growth.

Your Mission

On your journey, you will face challenges such as:

• Designing and maintaining architecture solutions that meet business requirements while aligning with architecture best practices and security policies. Producing solution architecture artifacts such as diagrams, interface specifications, and technical specifications.
• Partnering closely with product, engineering, and delivery teams throughout the full solution lifecycle—from concept and design through development, testing, deployment, and support. Providing architectural guidance and helping resolve design issues as they arise.
• Translating business needs into technical solutions, working directly with engineering and stakeholders to understand objectives. Supporting evaluation of options and trade-offs in collaboration with senior architects and delivery leaders.
• Ensuring solution designs address functional, integration, and security considerations. Reviewing designs and implementations to ensure they meet requirements and architectural expectations.
• Collaborating with Data Architecture and other architectural disciplines to ensure solutions align with standards and technology direction. Raising potential exceptions or gaps for review with senior leaders.
• Supporting one or more concurrent initiatives, within a defined solution area.
• Staying current on relevant technologies and patterns, contributing ideas and recommendations that improve solution effectiveness, scalability, and maintainability.

Your Expertise

To land this job, you will need:

Your Work Environment

This is a hybrid work position requiring a combination of three in-office workdays and the option to work from home on the remaining days. Working remotely will require reliable, secure internet.

Living the Values

We Are Kind

We Exceed Expectations

We Focus on Execution

We Keep it Simple

We Listen and Earn Trust

We Make it Fun

What We Offer

We offer a competitive salary, health benefits, wellness programs, a company-matching 401K and tuition assistance but some perks that set us apart are:

A focus on your development. We want to know what your dreams and aspirations are and hope to find ways of Great Clips helping you along in your journey. Your personalized development plan will create a path for your growth and promotion potential.

A GREAT culture. One the most frequent compliments you will hear about Great Clips from employees, franchisees and business partners alike is that Great Clips has a GREAT culture. Our belief is that we are strongest together and therefore find it important to have an inclusive, diverse work culture. Though we embrace our differences, we all share in our 6 core values; we are kind, we listen and earn trust, we keep it simple, we focus on execution, we exceed expectations, and WE MAKE IT FUN.

A spirit of ideas and innovation. Here at Great Clips, we have a competitive lead within our industry. Though we hold a strong position, we never stop pushing ourselves forward and continue to look for new ways of delivering a powerful and enduring brand.

About Great Clips

With more than 4,400 franchised salons throughout the United States and Canada, Great Clips is the world’s largest haircutting salon brand. Our salon owners and corporate staff are dedicated to our salon communities with a focus on philanthropic and volunteer activities. Great Clips, Inc. employees are passionate about what we do and our technology team geeks out in finding ways to use technology to make what we do even better.

Great Clips Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values the strength diversity brings to the workplace. Great Clips Inc. participates in the US E-Verify program. With all new hires, we provide the Social Security Administration and, if applicable, the US Department of Homeland Security with information from each new employee’s Form I-9 to confirm work authorization. This role is not eligible for immigration sponsorship.