Principal Engineer Architect [T500-20346]

About Albertsons Companies Inc. :

As a leading food and drug retailer in the United States, Albertsons Companies, Inc. operates over 2,200 stores across 35 states and the District of Columbia. Our well-known banners across the United States, including Albertsons, Safeway, Vons, Jewel-Osco and others, serve more than 36 million U.S customers each week.

We build and shape technology solutions that solve customers’ problems every day, making things easier for them when they shop with us online or in a store. We have made bold, strategic moves to migrate and modernize our core foundational capabilities, positioning ourselves as the first fully cloud-based grocery tech company in the industry.

Our success is built on a one-team approach, driven by the desire to understand and enhance the customer experience. By constantly pushing the boundaries of retail, we are transforming shopping into an experience that is easy, efficient, fun and engaging.

About Albertsons Companies India :

At Albertsons Companies India, we're not just pushing the boundaries of technology and retail innovation, we're cultivating a space where ideas flourish and careers thrive. Our workplace in India is a vital extension of the Albertsons Companies Inc. workforce and important to the next phase in the company’s technology journey to support millions of customers’ lives every day.

At the Albertsons Companies India, we are raising the bar to grow across Technology & Engineering, AI, Digital and other company functions, and transform a 165-year-old American retailer. At Albertsons Companies India associates collaborate directly with international teams, enhancing decision-making processes and organizational agility through exciting and pivotal projects. Your work will make history and help millions of lives each day come together around the joys of food and inspire their well-being.

Position Title : Principal Engineer Architect

Function : Tech

Job Description :

Roles & responsibilities :

Lead the discovery phase of strategic initiatives to come up with a high-level architecture and design.

Lead the cross functional architecture teams to identify the impact and work with them to deliver the architecture and design.

Deliver Architecture Strategies, Vision and Roadmap

Deliver Technology Vision and Roadmap

Deliver Target State Architecture and Roadmap for key strategies initiatives

Manages a team of Architects and Tech Leads to define, own and implement the architecture.

Lead the architecture and design review board and meetings.

Develop, Own and manage functional architecture for one or more domains

Provide technical leadership, architecture and design solutions of digital capabilities and business opportunities within Browse, Search and Selection domain to enable creation of impactful customer experiences / engagement across channels and markets for Albertsons customers.

Drive the architecture and design of modern user interfaces for both web and mobile interface based on consumer design principles for next generation user interface platforms.

Is the resident expert on cutting edge / emerging solutions / technologies on Cloud, IoT, Mobile, Progressive Web Apps, Single Page Apps, Content Management System, AI / ML, Social etc.

Define data and integration architectures to support automation and own the detailed integration patterns for integrating catalog solutions.

Work closely with Product Management, Architecture, Data Engineering, Quality Engineering, and Information Security groups to define and deliver the overall solution including contributing to the roadmap of the backlog of priorities.

Participate in Architecture Review of solutions within the Domain and for the other domains.

Develop and strengthen partnership with enterprise architecture team, cross functional teams, including vendor partners, to ensure all solutions are being developed with continuity of the enterprise solution ecosystem, while meeting all security, data governance, legal, risk and compliance standards.

Integrate with Enterprise and Data Architecture teams to shape enterprise architecture guardrails, standards, and patterns.

Lead the development and implementation of quality guidelines and control processes for the technology platforms and products working with engineering teams.

Drives modular, services-oriented integration and solution with tech leads and Architects.

Present architecture and design strategies in larger forums both internally and externally.

Experience Required :

15+ years acting as an Architect building secure, highly available, resilient, scalable distributed systems leveraging clustering and load balancing of web servers, app servers, and messaging systems.

15+ years’ experience in the design, development, use of component-based UI architectures and practical programming (hands-on) experience (NodeJS, JavaScript, Angular, React, Web components and Microservices).

10+ years acting as an Enterprise architect for major systems and their subsystems. Additional consideration for experience working with high volume ECommerce websites.

Expert advisor leading the enterprise strategies, vision and roadmap.

Experience working with Senior Leadership in Product and Engineering delivering architecture, design and solution of Key Strategic initiatives

Experience leading the cross functional architecture teams to deliver the architecture and design.

Experience architecting, designing, and implementing highly-distributed, scalable and resilient cloud-based systems for eCommerce Industry, and experience in cloud infrastructure, security, data, or application development.

Experience mentoring Enterprise Architects and Solution Architects

Expert advisor of eCommerce / Merchandizing / Retail / Supply Chain ecosystem and in depth knowledge of relevant technologies.

Expert advisor of full-stack web application technologies.

Expert advisor of Software Design patterns and how they can be implemented for best in class results.

Expert advisor of fundamental architectural principles and frameworks (MVC, Spring Boot, etc.)

Expert advisor of microservices and event-driven architecture patterns

Expert advisor of the HTML DOM and underlying event model.

Expert experience in web standards, accessibility standards by Americans with Disabilities Act

Expert experience in Mobile App standards for both iOS and Android devices.

Expert experience with Microservice architecture, Java technologies and framework, high-frequency data / event streaming architecture and NoSQL / RDMS.

Expert advisor of best practices around systems integration, security, performance, and data management.

Significant Experience in implementing ecommerce Search using Google Retail Search or Elastic or similar platform is an additional strength.

Experience in Kubernetes, Java, Spring, Spring Boot, Jenkins, Kafka, React, GraphQL, Databricks.

Expert ability to assess product management and marketing business needs and translate these requirements into efficient and scalable digital marketing solutions.

Expert experience with the full software development lifecycle and software development methodologies (Agile, Iterative development).

Experience with implementing applications on the cloud infrastructure such as Microsoft Azure, AWS, GCP, Redis Cache, Adobe Experience Manager and Adobe Launch.

Competencies :

Compassionate and kind, showing courtesy, dignity, and respect. They show sincere interest and empathy for all others.

Foster innovation through creativity to get to a workable solution. Use analytical thinking through issues using logic and reason

Show integrity in what is done and how it is done - without sacrificing personal / business ethics.

Embrace an inclusion-focused mindset, seeking input from others on their work and encouraging the open expression of diverse ideas and opinions

Team-oriented, positively contributing to team morale and willing to help.

Learning-Focused, finding ways to improve in their field and use positive constructive feedback to grow personally and professionally

Think strategically and proactively anticipate future problems, needs or changes in the work

Delighting our customers and maintaining customer relationships are top priority and they work to always deliver solutions through this lens

Consistently deliver results with tangible metrics by focusing on actions that drive quality results.

Ability to learn newer technologies, methodologies, and solutions in the cloud technology space.

Ability to collaborate across organizational boundaries, build relationships, and achieve broader organizational goals.

Skills Required :

Microservices Architecture & Design Patterns

Cloud Platform Experience (Azure and / or Google Cloud)

Proficiency in Kubernetes, Java / Python, Spring Boot

Proficiency in Big Datasets using any of Distributed computing frameworks (Hive / Hadoop / Spark / Flink / DASK) or NoSQL databases (Cassandra / Mongo DB / Amazon Dynamo / Hbase / Cosmos Db / Elasticsearch)

SaaS and Multi-Tenant Architecture Principles

Additional Skills Required :

Experience in Retail, eCommerce, Digital and Data Products, GenAI.

Knowledge of GenAI, LLM, AI & ML, Data Science.

Experience with streaming technologies, NoSQL databases, and cloud platforms.

Familiarity with Kafka, React, GraphQL, Security Vault framework, Redis / Varnish cache, and Spark.

Good understanding of Mobile / Web Technologies and UI Frameworks.

Experience in cloud logging methodologies for metrics, application logging, and tracing.

Experience in DevOps culture.

Experience with emerging technologies like Machine Learning, voice, bots, and IoT.

Prior experience in Grocery Retail or Retail in general.