Cloud-Native Solutions Architect | Microservices Lead

McLane Company, Inc.; Temple (TX); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Day 1 benefits: medical, dental, and V

Paid time off starts day one

Pet insurance

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

McLane Company, Inc. is seeking a Sr. Solutions Architect for Digital Customer Experience to lead end-to-end architecture of customer-facing web/mobile apps, microservices, APIs, and cloud-native solutions on GCP.

This leadership role focuses on modernizing legacy systems and enabling data and partner integrations across the enterprise. This hybrid role requires reporting to the Temple, TX area and being within a 50-minute radius; expect collaboration across engineering and business leaders,

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering with 5+ years in Solutions Architecture or Principal-level roles.
• Strong track record leading legacy modernization and microservices transformation programs.
• Deep expertise in microservices, domain-driven design, and event-driven architectures.
• Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GKE, Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, BigQuery, Apigee).

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end solution architecture across frontend, backend, integrations, and data flows.
• Translate business needs into scalable, secure, cloud-native designs and implementation roadmaps.
• Lead monolith-to-microservices modernization using GCP, event-driven patterns, and domain-driven design.
• Define and govern API ecosystems (REST, GraphQL, gRPC, event-driven) with strong lifecycle management.
• Architect enterprise integrations across ERP, WMS, TMS, order management, and partner platforms.
• Design real-time and batch data movement strategies leveraging Pub/Sub, Kafka, Dataflow, and ETL/ELT.
• Drive best practices in containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code. (Terraform)
• Ensure performance, scalability, resiliency, observability, and cost optimization across all solutions.
• Embed security-by-design (IAM, OAuth2/OIDC, encryption, zero-trust) and support compliance requirements.
• Lead architecture reviews, mentor engineers, and serve as a trusted advisor to engineering and business leaders.

Skills

GCP

Microservices

API Design

Java Spring Boot

Node.js

Python

React/React Native

CI/CD

Security architecture

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Master’s degree preferred

Tools

GKE

Cloud Run

Pub/Sub

BigQuery

Apigee

Terraform

Job description

McLane Company, Inc. is seeking a Sr. Solutions Architect for Digital Customer Experience to lead end-to-end architecture of customer-facing web/mobile apps, microservices, APIs, and cloud-native solutions on GCP.

This leadership role focuses on modernizing legacy systems and enabling data and partner integrations across the enterprise. This hybrid role requires reporting to the Temple, TX area and being within a 50-minute radius; expect collaboration across engineering and business leaders,