Principal / Enterprise Architect

VMC Soft Technologies, Inc; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

VMC Soft Technologies, Inc in Hyderabad seeks a Principal Architect to define and lead the architecture strategy for digital commerce platforms, covering Browse, Search, CMS, and Product Catalog capabilities. The architect will drive cloud-native modernization, scalable platform design, event-driven integration, and technical excellence across high-traffic customer-facing applications.

Candidates should have 10+ years of software architecture leadership, strong Java/Spring Boot, AWS,

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software or platform architecture and technical leadership.
• Expertise in Java and Spring Boot for scalable digital commerce.
• Hands-on AWS cloud experience with microservices and event-driven design.
• Experience with Browse, Search, CMS, and Product Catalog in commerce.
• Strong knowledge of APIs, security, observability, and performance.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve architecture for Browse, Search, CMS, and Product Catalog.
• Design cloud-native, API-first, microservices-based, and event-driven solutions.
• Lead current-state assessments, target architecture, modernization, migration, and roadmaps.
• Design scalable Search architecture with indexing, relevance, autocomplete, facets, sorting, and high-volume queries.
• Architect Product Catalog data models, ingestion, synchronization, and data quality.
• Design CMS and headless CMS integration, content delivery, caching, CDN, and publishing patterns.
• Define Browse capabilities including navigation, facets, filters, sorting, pagination, merchandising, API/BFF aggregation, and graceful degradation.
• Lead event-driven integration using Kafka or equivalent streaming technologies.
• Establish standards for APIs, events, data, security, observability, performance, and resilience.
• Mentor engineering teams and provide technical leadership across architecture and implementation.
• Drive improvements in latency, availability, scalability, catalog freshness, search reliability, and operational observability.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Cloud-native architecture

Microservices

Event-driven systems

AWS

Kubernetes

Docker

Elasticsearch/OpenSearch/Solr

Kafka

API-first

BFF

Security

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD

Kafka

Elasticsearch/OpenSearch/Solr

API Gateway

Job description

Principal Architect Browse, Search, CMS & Product Catalog

Experience:

10+ Years

Location:

Hyderabad

Domain:

Digital Commerce / Retail

Role:

• contract role

Job Description

We are looking for a Principal Architect to define and lead the architecture strategy for digital commerce platforms covering Browse, Search, CMS, and Product Catalog capabilities. The architect will drive cloud-native modernization, scalable platform design, event-driven integration, and technical excellence across high-traffic customer-facing commerce applications.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and evolve architecture for Browse, Search, CMS, and Product Catalog platforms.
• Design cloud-native, API-first, microservices-based, and event-driven solutions.
• Lead current-state assessment, target architecture, modernization, migration, and technical roadmap.
• Design scalable Search architecture covering indexing, relevance, autocomplete, faceting, filtering, ranking, and high-volume queries.
• Architect Product Catalog solutions covering products, SKUs, categories, attributes, variants, ingestion, synchronization, and data quality.
• Design CMS and headless CMS integration, content delivery, caching, CDN, and publishing patterns.
• Define Browse capabilities including navigation, facets, filters, sorting, pagination, merchandising, API/BFF aggregation, and graceful degradation.
• Lead event-driven integration using Kafka or equivalent streaming technologies.
• Establish standards for APIs, events, data, security, observability, performance, and resilience.
• Mentor engineering teams and provide technical leadership across architecture and implementation.
• Drive improvements in latency, availability, scalability, catalog freshness, search reliability, and operational observability.

Required Skills

• 10+ years of experience in software/platform architecture and technical leadership.
• Strong expertise in Java and Spring Boot.
• Hands-on experience with AWS cloud and cloud-native architecture.
• Strong knowledge of Microservices, API-first architecture, and event-driven systems.
• Experience with Browse, Search, CMS, and Product Catalog in digital commerce/retail environments.
• Strong Search experience with Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Solr, or equivalent.
• Experience with Kafka or other streaming/event platforms.
• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker/containers, CI/CD, and cloud platforms.
• Experience with API Management, API Gateway, BFF, caching, CDN, and distributed systems.
• Knowledge of SRE, observability, security, scalability, resilience, and performance optimization.
• Proven experience architecting high-volume, high-availability customer-facing digital commerce platforms.
• Strong communication, stakeholder management, mentoring, and technical leadership skills.

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

Preferred Domain

Digital Commerce / E-commerce / Retail / Customer Experience Platforms.