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

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