Senior Staff Architect [T500-20340]

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.

Position Title : Senior Staff Architect

Job Description :

Roles & responsibilities :

Lead the discovery phase of large projects 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.

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

Run the architecture and design review 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 platform.

Keep up to date 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 detail 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 roadmap of backlog of priorities.

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

Continuous 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.

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

Ensure quality guidelines and control processes are created and implemented for the technology platforms and products working with engineering teams.

Partners with Tech Leads and Architects in driving modular, services-oriented integration and solution architectures.

Provide technical oversight and review technical designs and deployment architectures.

Mentor technical leads and architects, and work closely with Product and Business Leaders to align architectural vision with product vision and future capabilities.

Create secure, robust, scalable, and modular solutions across enterprise digital platforms.

Lead architecture and design initiatives for complex programs spanning multiple teams.

Provide thought leadership on software architecture, design principles, and engineering best practices in the Ecommerce Fulfilment domain.

12+ years of large-scale application development (Full Stack / Mobile) or application design experience

Experience Required :

At least 4+ years of experience working on enterprise strategies, vision and roadmap.

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

Experience working in or 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.

4+ years of experience mentoring / leading Solution Architects and Tech lead

4+ years of expertise and knowledge of eCommerce / Merchandizing / Retail / Supply Chain ecosystem and in depth knowledge of relevant technologies is a must

Broad expertise and knowledge of full-stack web application technologies.

Broad expertise and knowledge of Software Design patterns and how they can be implemented for best-in-class results.

Broad expertise and knowledge of fundamental architectural principles and frameworks (MVC, Spring Boot, etc.)

10+ 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.

Broad expertise and knowledge of microservices and event-driven architecture patterns

10+ 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).

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

Excellent level understanding of the HTML DOM and underlying event model.

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

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

Broad expertise and knowledge of Microservice architecture, Java technologies and framework, high-frequency data / event streaming architecture and NoSQL / RDMS.

Broad expertise and knowledge of best practices around systems integration, security, performance, and data management.

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.

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

Broad expertise and knowledge of the full software development lifecycle and software development methodologies (Agile, Iterative development).

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Strong leadership, interpersonal, influencing, collaboration, and negotiation skills.

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

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, Spring Boot, Jenkins

Front-End Engineering (ReactJS / AngularJS)

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.