Job Description

About Albertsons Companies India
Albertsons Companies is a leading food and drug retailer in the United States. As of February 22, 2025, the Company operated 2,270 retail stores with 1,728 in-store pharmacies, 405 associated fuel centers, 22 dedicated distribution centers and 19 manufacturing facilities. Albertsons Companies India is a vital extension of the Albertsons Companies Inc. workforce and important to the next phase in the company & technology journey to support millions of customers & lives every day.

Position Title: Principal Engineer Architect
Function: Tech
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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.

Skills Required