Principal Architect – Digital Commerce

VMC Soft Technologies, Inc; Bengaluru; Sur place; INR 2 000 000 - 3 000 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Catalyst Brands is seeking a Principal Architect to shape the strategy, architecture, and evolution of its digital commerce discovery platform across Browse, Search, CMS, and Product Catalog. You will drive cloud-native modernization, event-driven integration, and high-performance capabilities while mentoring the engineering team.

The role reports to the Distinguished Architect and requires extensive leadership in designing scalable, secure, and resilient systems for a global customer base.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in software, cloud, or platform architecture leadership roles.
• Expertise in distributed, microservices based digital commerce systems on AWS, with strong Java and Spring Boot experience.
• Experience with OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, Solr, including indexing, relevance, and performance optimization.
• Familiarity with cloud networking, security, observability, caching/CDN, and event-driven architecture.

Responsabilités

• Define and evolve the Browse, Search, CMS, and Product Catalog architecture aligned with business goals.
• Architect cloud-native, API-first, microservices-based, event-driven platforms for scalability and resilience.
• Lead discovery, target-state architecture, modernization, and technical roadmaps for catalog and search.
• Mentor engineers and establish architecture standards, observability, security, and performance.

Connaissances

Distributed systems

Microservices architecture

Java & Spring Boot

Cloud-native AWS

Kafka

Kubernetes

Caching/CDN

Observability

Leadership

Formation

Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field

Outils

OpenSearch/Elasticsearch

Solr

API/BFF

CI/CD

Description du poste

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Principal Architect Browse, Search, CMS & Catalog

Overview

Catalyst Brands is accelerating its digital transformation and seeks a Principal Architect to lead the strategy, architecture, and evolution of its digital commerce discovery platform across Browse, Search, CMS, and Product Catalog. This role required design, cloud-native modernization, event-driven integration, and technical leadership to build scalable, secure, resilient, and high-performance digital commerce capabilities. Reporting to the Distinguished Architect, this leader provides architectural direction across Catalyst Brands for Browse, Search, CMS, and Catalog platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the Browse, Search, CMS, and Product Catalog architecture aligned with business and customer experience goals.
• Architect cloud native, API first, microservices based, and event driven platforms for scalability, resilience, and high availability.
• Lead discovery and current-state assessment, target-state architecture, modernization, migration, and technical roadmap for Browse, Search, CMS, and Catalog capabilities.
• Design scalable Search architecture including indexing, relevance, autocomplete, faceting, filtering, ranking, search APIs, and high-volume query processing.
• Define Product Catalog architecture covering product, SKU, category, attribute, variant, ingestion, synchronization, data quality, and downstream propagation.
• Architect CMS integration and content delivery patterns including headless APIs, content models, publishing, caching, CDN, and integration with Browse experiences.
• Define Browse architecture including category navigation, facets, filters, sorting, pagination, merchandising, API/BFF aggregation, caching, and graceful degradation.
• Lead event-driven integration using Kafka or equivalent streaming technologies for catalog, search-index, content, and platform data synchronization.
• Mentor engineers while establishing architecture standards, reusable patterns, observability, security, performance, and technical excellence.

Success Metrics

• Measurable improvements in Browse and Search latency, availability, scalability, and customer experience.
• Improved catalog freshness, search indexing reliability, content delivery performance, and operational observability.
• Standardized API, event, data, and architecture patterns drive consistency, efficiency, resilience, and faster delivery.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field
• 15 or more years of experience in software, cloud, or platform architecture leadership roles.
• Expertise in distributed, microservices based digital commerce systems on AWS, with strong Java and Spring Boot experience.
• Strong proficiency in Browse, Search, CMS, Product Catalog, API/BFF architecture, Kafka or equivalent streaming, Kubernetes, containers, CI/CD, and cloud-native platforms.
• Proven experience designing and governing high performance, high traffic customer-facing digital commerce platforms.
• Experience with Search technologies such as OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, Solr, or equivalent, including indexing, relevance, faceting, and performance optimization.
• Familiarity with cloud networking, security, observability, caching/CDN, data synchronization, event-driven architecture, and cost optimization best practices.

About The Role

This is a high impact leadership opportunity for a visionary architect defining the next generation of Catalyst Brands digital commerce discovery platform. The Principal Architect will play a pivotal role in shaping Catalyst Brands digital future by delivering secure, scalable, resilient, and high-performance Browse, Search, CMS, and Product Catalog capabilities that enable exceptional customer experiences and support continued commerce growth.

Skills: Content ManagementBusiness Domain - RetailJava API Management & Microservices~Digital : Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)