- Provide technical leadership, architecture, and design solutions of digital capabilities and business opportunities within the Browse, Search, and Selection domain to enable the 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 interfaces based on consumer design principles for the 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 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 backlog of priorities.

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

- Continuous partnership with the 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.

Requirements :

- Experience working on enterprise strategies, vision, and roadmap.

- Experience working with Senior Leadership in Product and Engineering, delivering architecture, design, and solutions for 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 the eCommerce Industry, and experience in cloud infrastructure, security, data, or application development.

- Experience mentoring Solution Architects and Tech Lead.

- Broad expertise and knowledge of the eCommerce/Merchandising/Retail/Supply Chain ecosystem, and in depth knowledge of relevant technologies.

- 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, and 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 of understanding of the HTML DOM and underlying event model.

- Strong experience in web standards, accessibility standards, and the 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 frameworks, 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, Elastic, or a similar platform is an additional strength.

- Experience in Kubernetes, Java, Spring, SpringBoot, Jenkins, Kafka, React, GraphQL, and 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).

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 to address 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. s

- Team-oriented, positively contributing to team morale, and willing to help.

- Learning-focused, finding ways to improve in their field, and using 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 priorities, 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 :

- Strong experience in software architecture and design.

- 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.

Additional Skills Required :

- Experience in Retail, eCommerce, Digital, and Data Products, GenAI.

- Knowledge of GenAI, LLM, AI, ML, and 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.