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: Senior Staff Architect
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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.

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

• 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.

• Strong experience in software architecture and design in Ecommerce Fulfilment domain
• Experience in cloud services architecture, technical design, and implementations (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS).
• Experience leading architecture and design for complex programs across multiple teams.
• Strong background in microservices architecture, design patterns, and best practices.
• Proficiency in Kubernetes, Java, Spring, Spring Boot, and Jenkins.
• Hands-on experience with cloud computing application implementations on Azure and Google Cloud.
• Excellent understanding of architectural principles for SaaS and multi-tenant platforms.
• Strong leadership, interpersonal, influencing, collaboration, and negotiation skills.
• Ability to mentor technical leads and architects.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to provide technical oversight and review technical designs and deployment architectures.
• Experience in creating secure, robust, scalable, and modular solutions.
• Ability to work closely with Product and Business Leaders to align architectural vision with product vision and future capabilities.

• 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.