Job Title      : Microservices  Solution Architect
Experience  : 12 - 15 Years
Location      : Bengaluru

Description:

• The opportunity is for a role in the Commerce and Transactions team. Our team is responsible for creating seamless guest experiences focused on ecommerce transactions, and guest accounts. This team is also in the process of transforming a traditional monolith architecture to a cloud-based service architecture.
• Our team is fast-paced and taking on exciting new initiatives to support a fast-growing business. We strive to adopt leading-edge technology and seek to continuously improve on the solutions we have. We are not afraid to try new things, have fun, and encourage each other to take on new challenges. We support each other in growing professionally and personally. We fail forward and learn from our mistakes, thus creating a better path ahead. We create space for team members to share feedback and ideas that can help us continually grow as an organization.
• We operate in agile methodology and contribute to product teams across our various functions as well as a core commerce platform team. We institute a culture of fun and lightheartedness to enjoy work each day. We are inclusive and know that we are stronger as a team than as an individual.
• Who You Are 
• The ideal candidate performs the development of high-performing, well-tested, and thoughtfully architected software applications that satisfy our internal business needs and power guest experiences. Has proven experience in effectively applying mathematical, and social principles to design, build, & maintain technology products, and solutions that provide fantastic customer experiences.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Create technical vision & provide architectural assessments, strategies, roadmaps for Digital Program teams.
• Keep the product advancing by incorporating the newest features to the product while ensuring that the features released are working as expected 
• Lead projects within architecture. Work with Product Owner/Business Analysts to understand functional requirements and interact with other cross-functional teams to architect, design, and release features. 
• Develop Proof-of-Concept projects to validate new architectures and solutions. 
• Create detailed architecture including recommendations for API / micro-services enablement, cloud migration, etc. 
• Engage with Domain Architects and technical teams to determine the most appropriate technical strategy and designs to meet business needs. 
• Investigate new technologies and techniques and research ongoing industry developments through a partnership with the Architecture team 
• Mentor project delivery teams on adopting to DevOps model, new ideas/technologies 
• Drive common vision, practices and capabilities across teams. 

Must Haves

• Acknowledges the presence of choice in every moment and takes personal responsibility for their life.
• Possesses an entrepreneurial spirit and continuously innovates to achieve great results.
• Communicates with honesty and kindness and creates space for others to do the same.
• Leads with courage, knowing the possibility of greatness is bigger than the fear of failure.
• Fosters connection by putting people first and building trusting relationships.
• Integrates fun and joy as a way of being and working, aka doesn’t take themselves too seriously.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and/or applicable experience in information / computer technology field.
• 12+ years’ experience designing design scalable, secure modern micro-services using Spring Boot, test driven development, and cloud native design patterns.
• Experience in defining & realizing end-to-end Solution Architecture for large & complex systems.
• 3+ years of experience in architecting the Digital Retail landscape is required.
• Very strong technical skills with at least 10 years hands-on design, coding, integration, and deployment experience in enterprise applications.
• Extensive knowledge and application of Design Patterns.
• Strong understanding of microservice architecture & knowledge of challenges related to building cloud-native apps
• Experience in design and development of RESTful APIs using JAX-RS and JSON
• Solid working experience with AWS.
• Strong software development fundamentals, including automated testing, source control, continuous integration in addition to continuous delivery and/or deployment 
• Experience with monitoring and alerting for microservices.
• Hands-on experience to support development, infrastructure, and operations
• Experience working with security log analysis, application logs, and general log management practices
• Experience working with Kafka, Kubernetes, Terraform
• Experience in design and integration with 3rd parties like OMS, Payment authorization, Address validation, Ratings & Reviews
• Deep knowledge in DevOps, CICD practices is a must.
• Background in agile methodologies is highly valued.
• Commerce domain knowledge a strong plus