About
Retail Insights delivers scalable, innovative, and cost-effective IT solutions through centers in India, Dubai, and the U.S. We specialize in Full Stack Development, Data & AI/ML, Mobile, DevOps, and digital platforms like Adobe, Salesforce, Shopify, Snowflake, and Blue Yonder.
Responsibilities
- Own and drive end-to-end solution architecture for large-scale, complex retail and digital transformation programs
- Partner with business leaders, product owners, and senior stakeholders to understand strategic objectives and translate them into robust technical solutions
- Define overall system architecture, including application, integration, data, cloud, and security layers
- Design scalable, high-availability, and performance-optimized architectures aligned with enterprise standards
- Lead architecture decisions for omni-channel commerce, customer experience, data platforms, and integrations
- Establish and enforce architecture principles, standards, and best practices across delivery teams
- Review and approve high-level and low-level designs, ensuring alignment with architectural vision
- Drive API-first, microservices, and event-driven architecture strategies
- Ensure solutions meet non-functional requirements including security, performance, resilience, compliance, and scalability
- Evaluate and recommend technology stacks, platforms, and tools based on business needs and future scalability
- Provide technical leadership and guidance to development, integration, and DevOps teams
- Act as a technical escalation point for complex architectural and delivery challenges
- Collaborate with vendors, partners, and third-party solution providers to design integrated ecosystems
- Support pre-sales and solution discovery, including effort estimation, architecture proposals, and technical presentations
- Guide cloud adoption strategies across AWS, Azure, or GCP, including migration and modernization initiatives
- Ensure architecture supports data analytics, AI/ML, personalization, and automation capabilities
- Participate in governance forums, architecture review boards, and steering committees
- Drive continuous improvement in architecture practices, tooling, and delivery maturity
- Mentor and coach solution architects and senior engineers across teams
- Support production readiness, go-live planning, and post-deployment architecture optimization
Requirements
- Overall IT experience, with significant experience in solution architecture and enterprise system design
- Proven experience designing and delivering large-scale, complex enterprise solutions, preferably in Retail, E-commerce, or Consumer domains
- Strong expertise in end-to-end architecture, including application, integration, data, and cloud layers
- Hands-on experience with API-led, microservices, and event-driven architectures
- Deep understanding of cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, including cloud-native design principles
- Strong knowledge of integration patterns, middleware, and system interoperability
- Experience in defining and enforcing non-functional requirements (performance, security, scalability, reliability, compliance)
- Ability to evaluate and recommend technology stacks, platforms, and tools aligned with business strategy
- Proven experience working with senior stakeholders, business leaders, and client leadership teams
- Strong leadership, communication, and technical decision-making skills
- Experience supporting pre-sales activities, including solutioning, estimations, and architecture proposals
- Ability to mentor and guide architects, senior engineers, and technical teams
- Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to handle architectural escalations
- Experience working in Agile / SAFe / Hybrid delivery models
- Excellent documentation and presentation skills for architecture artifacts
Education Qualification
- Overall IT experience, with significant experience in solution architecture and enterprise system design
- Proven experience designing and delivering large-scale, complex enterprise solutions, preferably in Retail, E-commerce, or Consumer domains
- Strong expertise in end-to-end architecture, including application, integration, data, and cloud layers
- Hands-on experience with API-led, microservices, and event-driven architectures
- Deep understanding of cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, including cloud-native design principles
- Strong knowledge of integration patterns, middleware, and system interoperability
- Experience in defining and enforcing non-functional requirements (performance, security, scalability, reliability, compliance)
- Ability to evaluate and recommend technology stacks, platforms, and tools aligned with business strategy
- Proven experience working with senior stakeholders, business leaders, and client leadership teams
- Strong leadership, communication, and technical decision-making skills
- Experience supporting pre-sales activities, including solutioning, estimations, and architecture proposals
- Ability to mentor and guide architects, senior engineers, and technical teams
- Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to handle architectural escalations
- Experience working in Agile / SAFe / Hybrid delivery models
- Excellent documentation and presentation skills for architecture artifacts
Join the team
Thank you for your keen interest in becoming a part of Retail Insights. We're eagerly looking forward to gaining deeper insights into your candidacy through this application.
