What’s behind one of the world’s top public restaurant brands? Fun and innovative franchise and corporate team members who are driven to win. Inspired to make each day better than the last, people may join for different reasons but what motivates them to stay are the passionate and talented colleagues who want Domino’s to be the best pizza company in every neighborhood.

And, we’re having fun doing it! Whether debuting technology firsts, like our voice-ordering iPhone® and Android™ apps, or creating delicious new menu items, we’re dedicated to our customers and focused on making great pizza and more in approximately 17,100 stores in 90+ markets around the world. A lot has happened since Domino’s was founded in 1960, but the best part is that the brand is just getting started.

Industry: Restaurants
Company Size: 10,001+ employees

Domino's

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Domino’s Pizza, which began in 1960 as a single store location in Ypsilanti, MI, has had a lot to celebrate lately: we’re a reshaped, reenergized brand of honesty, transparency and accountability – not to mention, great food! In the rise to becoming a true technology leader, the brand is now consistently one of the top five companies in online transactions and 85% of our sales in the U.S. are taken through digital channels. The brand continues to ‘deliver the dream’ to local business owners, 90% of which started as delivery drivers and pizza makers in our stores. That’s just the tip of the iceberg…or as we might say, one “slice” of the pie! If this sounds like a brand you’d like to be a part of, consider joining our team!

**Job Description**

Responsible for solving moderate to complex cloud-native architecture problems that may not have well-defined solutions and can impact business operations. Applies advanced knowledge of cloud-native, solution, and application architecture principles and organizational goals to design, develop, and implement scalable, resilient, secure, and operable technology solutions. Works independently with minimal supervision and provides technical guidance and mentorship to junior team members.

**Responsibilities**

- Analyze business requirements and translate them into scalable and sustainable cloud-native architecture solutions.

- Develop and maintain cloud-native architectural standards, guidelines, and best practices aligned with organizational objectives.

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure integration, security, resiliency, and operational alignment of cloud-native solutions.

- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to less experienced architects and technical staff.

- Evaluate emerging cloud platforms, services, and architectural patterns and recommend their adoption to improve system performance, reliability, and business value.

- Identify and resolve moderate to complex architectural issues impacting cloud-native applications and platforms.

- Document architectural designs, decisions, and processes for knowledge sharing and compliance.

Job Tasks

- Conduct architecture reviews and assessments to ensure compliance with cloud-native standards and guardrails.

- Design solution and application architecture diagrams and technical specifications.

- Lead technical discussions and workshops with stakeholders.

- Monitor and evaluate system performance, reliability, and cost efficiency and recommend enhancements.

- Assist in the development of proof-of-concepts and prototypes for new cloud-native technologies.

- Integrate ‘Secure by Design’ principles, ensuring adherence to Zero Trust frameworks, compliance standards, and data privacy requirements.

- Optimize cloud infrastructure for performance and cost (FinOps), identifying opportunities to reduce waste in Azure environments.

- Guide the transition and design of modern architectural patterns such as Event-Driven Architecture, Domain-Driven Design, Cloud-Native Microservices.

**Qualifications**

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field; or equivalent experience in technical architecture and software engineering.

- 8+ years of experience in IT architecture or senior software engineering roles.

- Demonstrated experience solving moderate to complex cloud-native architectural problems.

- Experience providing technical guidance and mentoring to team members.

**Skills**

- Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to address complex and ambiguous cloud-native issues.

- Advanced knowledge of Azure-native solution and application architecture frameworks and methodologies.

- Effective communication and collaboration skills to work across teams and mentor others.

- Ability to work independently while managing multiple priorities.

- Deep technical expertise in software engineering across diverse ecosystems and languages, including Java and .NET.

- Familiarity with modern observability, logging, and APM tools (e.g., Open Telemetry, Azure Monitor, App Insights, DataDog, Prometheus).

- Knowledge of diverse data tier technologies, including relational SQL, NoSQL (e.g., MongoDB), and event-streaming platforms.

**Additional Information**

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Architect IV, Cloud-Native Applications

Domino’s Pizza, which began in 1960 as a single store location in Ypsilanti, MI, has had a lot to celebrate lately: we’re a reshaped, reenergized brand of honesty, transparency and accountability – not to mention, great food! In the rise to becoming a true technology leader, the brand is now consistently one of the top five companies in online transactions and 65% of our sales in the U.S. are taken through digital channels. The brand continues to ‘deliver the dream’ to local business owners, 90% of which started as delivery drivers and pizza makers in our stores. That’s just the tip of the iceberg…or as we might say, one “slice” of the pie! If this sounds like a brand you’d like to be a part of, consider joining our team!

**Job Description**

This position will lead a team of region leaders for US and Canada and provide leadership and guidance to developing and driving productivity improvements within the SCCs. This role has overall responsibility to provide leadership, vision, coordination, and functional direction to all Supply Chain Centers. The leader in this role is expected to develop and maintain a robust system of problem solving and lean methodologies, geared towards developing capability within the leaders of all centers in the United States and Canada. This role will set the facility direction for CI and will take the lead in creating the 5-year plan for continuous improvement, to include the following: Productivity Planning, Capability Building (on direct team and throughout Dominos field employees), and a path to get centers to the LOE (level of excellence) in Production, Warehouse, and Customer Service metrics. Additional responsibilities include improving product quality from process through production by identifying and improving current systems, quality operating procedures, and material handling.

**Main Responsibilities**

Facilitate the strategy deployment process within Supply Chain Centers and create the overall 5-Year Business Plan for Supply Chain.

- Support strategic Supply Chain initiatives across multiple Regions

- Support design, install, start-up, and ongoing operations at automated sites

- Partner with key functional leaders on the development and implementation of new processes and technology

- Work with Supply Chain Senior Leadership to create and support the deployment process across multiple locations

- Identify ongoing technology and process improvements for including in 5-year plan

Provide leadership and education to designated Center Leadership by facilitating, promoting, and supporting problem solving and lean methodologies. Lead, Teach, and Coach a Regional Program Leads to apply the skill set below.

- Coach and develop site leadership teams to influence change within their centers

- Create and implement tools to identify opportunities and gap areas to integrate into overall site transition plan

- Develops and manages roadmap for the field.

- Facilitates the development, introduction and tracking of standard work for leaders within the Supply Chain Centers (all departments)

- Exhibits/Creates standards that others can follow

Design and develop new tools within Supply Chain to counteract identified problem areas in support of Operations Excellence Transformation.

- Manages the introduction of tools and processes to support the 5-year Transformation and Operational Excellence Vision and Strategy

- Identify and ensure existing activities are interlinked to provide a coherent framework to the 5- year Plan

Communication, Performance Measurement, and Systems. Lead, Teach, and Coach a Regional Program Leads to apply the skill set below.

- Design and provide mechanism to track and report scorecard of Operational Excellence transformation measures

- Supports the introduction of management processes to ensure sustainability

- Develop Supply Chain communication framework and manage internal and external communications relating to lean methodologies

- Introduce teaching and thinking of visual control system to SC team members to ensure that systems are adopted and owned by those who use them.

- Represent CI at Supply Chain Meetings to ensure standardization across sites

- Supports Lean Transformation efforts

**Qualifications**

- 7 plus years of business/operations leadership with an organization known for its best-in-class operations. Expertise across a broad spectrum of products, end markets, business cycles and manufacturing processes and disciplines. Food experience is preferred.

- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Operations Management, or similar with emphasis on Industrial, Mechanical, Chemical, Electrical, and Civil Engineering.

- Advanced degree in a related field or MBA is desirable.

- Demonstrated ability to quickly assess and make clear recommendations for improvement.

- Strong lean six sigma skills. Understands the concepts and demonstrates ability to implement and drive results.

- Strong financial skills especially around productivity and cost leverage.

- Ability to influence others, build consensus, lead meetings, and resolve conflicts

- Well-developed team building and influencing skills, unquestioned integrity, and the experience, confidence, and stature to work across multiple functions.

- Demonstrated broad and deep understanding of manufacturing and supply chain challenges that occur within multi-site distributed environments and related best-practice solutions.

- Strong communicator – facilitation, written and verbal

**Additional Information**

Base Salary: 130-150k

Bonus: 15%

Benefits:

-  Paid Holidays and Vacation

-  Medical, Dental & Vision benefits that start on the first day of employment

-  No-cost mental health support for employee and dependents

-  Childcare tuition discounts

-  No-cost fitness, nutrition, and wellness programs

-  Fertility benefits

-  Adoption assistance

-  401k matching contributions

-  15% off the purchase price of stock

-  Company bonus

Senior Manager - Continuous Improvement

Michigan Medicine, based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, is part of one of the world’s leading universities.

Michigan Medicine is a premier, highly ranked academic medical center and award-winning health care system with state-of-the-art facilities. Our vision is to create the future of health care through scientific discovery, innovations in education, and the most effective and compassionate care. 

We want to be the leader in health care, health care reform, and biomedical innovation.

Michigan Medicine includes the U-M Hospitals and Health Centers; the U-M Medical School and its Faculty Group Practice; one of the nation's largest biomedical research communities; and education programs that train thousands of future health professionals and scientists each year. We were formerly known as the University of Michigan Medical Center; today that term applies generally to the collection of buildings on our main medical campus in Ann Arbor. 

We have a close partnership with the U-M School of Nursing and other health sciences schools at U-M. Through  the Michigan Health Corporation, we are able to form partnerships outside of our University.

Industry: Hospitals and Health Care
Company Size: 10,001+ employees

Michigan Medicine

How to Apply

A cover letter is required for consideration for this position and should be attached as the first page of your resume. The cover letter should address your specific interest in the position and outline skills and experience that directly relate to this position.

**Job Summary**

The onWHARD team in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology is seeking a Research Area Specialist to serve as a Senior-level contributor and day-to-day driver of complex, high-impact research activities and dissemination. Reporting to the Research Area Specialist, Lead, this role operates with considerable latitude and independent decision-making authority within a recognized research unit.

The Research Area Spl. Senior Specialist will develop, design, and conduct large and complex research projects, with particular emphasis on qualitative and mixed methods approaches. The role will also author and co-author peer-reviewed manuscripts and high-visibility dissemination products (e.g., reports, briefs, toolkits, presentations), translate research for academic, clinical, community, and public audiences, and support acquisition of research funding through proposals and project narratives. This position will frequently serve as a liaison across departments, collaborators, and community partners, ensuring rigorous methods, ethical compliance, and high-quality deliverables aligned with onWHARD priorities in women?s health, fibroids/heavy menstrual bleeding, health equity, and reproductive disparities.

Responsibilities*

Research Leadership & Project Execution

- Independently lead major components of one or more large, complex studies from design through dissemination, in partnership with the Lead and faculty PIs.

- Formulate and refine research questions, analytic plans, and mixed methods designs; propose options to improve study quality and feasibility.

- Identify risks (recruitment barriers, data quality issues, timeline threats), recommend solutions, and implement corrective actions with minimal supervision.

- Develop research protocols and criteria; determine interview and/or focus group procedures and approve qualitative protocols; may design intervention protocols as appropriate to project aims.

Qualitative Methods (Core)

- Design and execute qualitative workstreams: develop interview guides, conduct and/or moderate interviews & focus groups, oversee transcription/de-identification, and manage secure qualitative datasets.

- Independently lead development of codebooks; conduct thematic/grounded analysis; produce analytic memos and synthesis that connect findings to theory, context, and implications.

- Supervise and verify qualitative data collection and coding quality; ensure methodological rigor and reproducibility using established qualitative standards.

Quantitative & Mixed-Methods Integration

- Contribute to survey development and administration (e.g., Qualtrics/REDCap) and support descriptive/inferential analyses (e.g., STATA/R) as needed.

- Integrate qualitative and quantitative findings into cohesive study narratives, ensuring alignment with research aims and translational goals.

Grant Writing, Dissemination, Scientific Writing, & Research Translation

- Serve as primary author and/or co-author on manuscripts; draft substantial sections (methods, results, discussion) and ensure coherent storytelling supported by data.

- Produce dissemination products tailored to audience and purpose, including policy- and community-facing briefs, toolkits, reports, webinars, slide decks, and conference materials.

- Co-present with faculty investigators at internal/external meetings and conferences; support public-facing research translation as appropriate to project needs.

- Stakeholder & Community Engagement

- Build and sustain relationships with collaborators across academia, clinical teams, community organizations, and external stakeholders.

- Facilitate research partnerships, including incorporating community input into study design, interpretation, and dissemination plans.

- Funding Development & Reporting

- Assist in acquiring research funding by drafting components of grant proposals, progress reports, and sponsor-facing narratives (including qualitative/mixed-methods approach sections).

- Support development of high-impact dissemination plans that align with project goals and stakeholder needs.

- Supervision, Operations & Financial Management

- May supervise exempt and non-exempt research and support personnel (e.g., research assistants, transcription/coding staff), including training on protocols and quality standards.

- Monitor study budgets relevant to assigned projects; research, recommend, and purchase supplies/equipment/software as needed within unit guidelines.

- Maintain oversight of literature reviews and reference management for assigned projects.

Ethics, Compliance, and Research Integrity

- Ensure adherence to ethical research principles, IRB requirements, data security practices, and applicable University policies.

- Maintain accurate documentation of protocols, analytic decisions, and data handling procedures.

Required Qualifications*

- PhD required in a relevant field (e.g., anthropology, sociology, public health, health services research, related social/behavioral sciences) or a discipline directly related to the duties of the position.

- Minimum 6 years of related experience post-degree leading or substantially directing complex research projects; 10+ years strongly preferred.

- Demonstrated advanced expertise in qualitative research (interviews/focus groups, protocol development, coding, thematic/grounded analysis) and experience integrating findings into mixed-methods or applied health research.

- Strong record of peer-reviewed publications and evidence of high-quality scientific writing across formats (manuscripts, reports, briefs, grant content).

- Demonstrated ability to operate independently with considerable latitude, making decisions on matters of significance within scope of responsibilities.

- Proven supervisory and financial management experience (e.g., supervising staff/teams; managing project budgets, supporting purchasing or vendor coordination).

- Excellent interpersonal communication skills and demonstrated success working with diverse collaborators and community partners.

- Proficiency with qualitative analysis software (NVivo/ATLAS.ti/Dedoose), reference management systems, and common research/project management tools.

Desired Qualifications*

- Experience conducting research in women?s health, maternal and child health, reproductive health, fibroids/heavy menstrual bleeding, reproductive justice, health equity, and/or disparities research.

- Experience translating research to policy, media, and public audiences; comfort supporting dissemination strategies that extend beyond academic publication.

- Familiarity with University of Michigan research processes (IRB, procurement, sponsored projects) or ability to learn quickly.

- Experience mentoring trainees and interdisciplinary teams in applied research methods and evidence-based storytelling.

Modes of Work

Positions that are eligible for hybrid or mobile/remote work mode are at the discretion of the hiring department. Work agreements are reviewed annually at a minimum and are subject to change at any time, and for any reason, throughout the course of employment. Learn more about the work modes.

Work Locations

University Hospital South (UHS), Ann Arbor, MI. This position is hybrid with 3 days onsite required and occasional travel across Michigan for community-engaged activities and dissemination events.

Additional Information

This is a term limited position with funding for one year. There is a possibility that funding will be extended.

Background Screening

Michigan Medicine conducts background screening and pre-employment drug testing on job candidates upon acceptance of a contingent job offer and may use a third party administrator to conduct background screenings. Background screenings are performed in compliance with the Fair Credit Report Act. Pre-employment drug testing applies to all selected candidates, including new or additional faculty and staff appointments, as well as transfers from other U-M campuses.

Application Deadline

Job openings are posted for a minimum of seven calendar days. The review and selection process may begin as early as the eighth day after posting. This opening may be removed from posting boards and filled any time after the minimum posting period has ended.

U-M EEO Statement

The University of Michigan is an equal employment opportunity employer.

Research Area Specialist Sr (TERM LIMITED)

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