Senior Solutions Architect

Key Skills

JavaScript, Microsoft-Excel, Java Programming, CSS, JQuery, AngularJS, Python Programming, MongoDB, AJAX, Database, SQL, Agile methodologies, Azure, AWS, REST API, Big Data Technology, Account Management, NoSQL, Kubernetes-K8s, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Junit, Data Engineering

Job Description

Albertsons Companies is at the forefront of the revolution in retail. With a fixation on innovation and building culture, our team is rallying our company around a unique vision: forging a retail winner that is admired for national strength, deep roots in the communities we serve, and a team that has passion for food and delivering great service.

Albertsons is one of the largest retail employers, providing approximately 300,000 jobs across 2,200 stores, 22 distribution centers, 20 food and beverage plants and various support offices. We operate in 34 states and the District of Columbia under the Albertsons banner, as well as Safeway, Tom Thumb, Jewel Osco, Shaw’s and many more recognizable names.

Albertsons Companies recently rolled out our Presence with a Purpose work model. Placing a premium on adaptability, safety and family well-being, Presence with a Purpose will help us build a hybrid work environment between remote work and office time. A one-size-fits-all approach does not apply to everyone, and teams are allowed to make decisions that are best for them.

What you will be doing

The WebCX (Front end) programs provide cutting edge solutions to engage and delight our customers in their online experience across multiple brands within the Albertson's, Inc. companies. The ideal candidate will be passionate in improving to create a compelling digital experience for 20M+, and growing, customers in our online channels. Working in a fast-paced agile development environment, this position will be critical in delivering advanced search capabilities.

The position will be based in Pleasanton, California or Plano, Texas.

Main responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership, architecture and design solutions of digital capabilities and business opportunities within Search domain to enable creation of impactful customer experiences/engagement across channels and markets for Albertsons customers.
• Prepare and present potential technical solutions and advise the business on approach and tradeoffs.
• Keep up to date on cutting edge/emerging solutions/technologies on Cloud, IoT, mobile, AI/ML, social, Big Data etc.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to understand business requirements, identifying solution gaps and available capabilities, and defining solutions to meet the business needs.
• Translates business domain understanding and context to technical capabilities for technical architects and development teams.
• Defining data and integration architectures to support automation and own the detail integration patterns for integrating catalog solutions.
• Work closely with a 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.
• Continuous partnership with 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 & Data Architecture teams to shape enterprise architecture guardrails, standards, and patterns.
• Ensure quality guidelines and control process are created and implemented for the technology platforms and products working with engineering teams.
• Well-organized, detail oriented, has great communication skills and thrives in a fast-paced environment.
• Flexibility and ability to work collaboratively within matrices, 'virtual' and flat environments.
• Partners with Tech Leads and Architects in driving modular, services-oriented integration and solution architectures.

A copy of the full job description can be made available to you.

What we are searching for

• 4-year degree (Computer Science, Information Systems, or relational functional field) and/or equivalent combination of education or work experience.
• 10+ years practical programming (hands-on) experience (OOAD, Java EE, Web Services Technologies, SOAP and/or REST, Spring boot and Spring platform, Junit, Mocking Libraries), Spark and related Data platforms, Kafka real time connect, reactive extensions
• Strong experience in implementing ecommerce Search using Google Retail Search or Elastic or similar platform
• 5+ years acting as a principal architect for major systems and their subsystems.
• Strong familiarity and experience with Microservice architecture, Java technologies and framework, high-frequency data/event streaming architecture and NoSQL/RDMS.
• Significant understanding and experience in best practices around systems integration, security, performance, and data management.
• An excellent communicator - for building relationships, managing stakeholders, working with clients and delivery teams - both orally and written and for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to assess product management and marketing business needs and translate these requirements into efficient and scalable digital marketing solutions.
• Significant experience with the full software development lifecycle and software development methodologies (Agile, Iterative development).
• Excellent listening, presentation, and written and verbal communication skills.
• Effective time management skills: ability to prioritize, delegate and meet deadlines.
• Preferred experience with implementing applications on the cloud infrastructure such as Microsoft Azure, AWS, GCP.
• Preferred experience with NoSQL databases like Casandra or MongoDB.
• Preferred experience with Redis Cache.
• Preferred familiarity with UI/Web Development (JavaScript, CSS, Ajax, AngularJS, and/or jQuery) and Mobile Native (iOS and Android).
• Preferred familiarity with Pivotal Cloud Foundry and/or Kubernetes.