Senior Director, eCommerce Cloud Architecture

National Black MBA Association; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 300,000 - 350,000; Full time

Job summary

Samsung Electronics America is seeking a Senior Director of Platform Architecture to lead architecture across the eCommerce, Mobile, and Data Warehouse platforms. This role defines guidelines, translates complex business requirements into generalized technical concepts, and drives security improvements for the platform and customer data.

The Senior Director will guide engineering teams, collaborate on roadmap development, and ensure robust data modeling and deployment strategies across multiple

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience leading software architecture for large platforms.
• Strong background in distributed systems, microservices, and serverless designs.
• Experience with data stores and data warehouses (e.g., Vertica, Hadoop, Elasticsearch).
• Proficiency with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Excellent written and verbal communication for cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Define and improve the architecture of eCommerce, Mobile, and Data platforms.
• Set cybersecurity guidelines and standards across the engineering organization.
• Translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Review and approve architectural designs for complex requirements.
• Guide roadmaps with leadership on feature prioritization and effort estimates.
• Lead development of distributed systems and high-availability strategies.

Job description

For decades, Samsung has been leading the charge on innovation. We see beauty in achieving excellence and our passion for change fuels our discoveries, inventions, and breakthrough technology. We believe that technology can, and should, make the world a better place, so we create new possibilities for people everywhere, push the limits of what’s possible, and constantly innovate. At Samsung Electronics America, we take pride in the creativity and diversity of our talented people – they are at the forefront of everything we do. Their skillset and mindset drive our continued success. Only the resilient and resourceful thrive in the daily dose of unexpected at Samsung. We unapologetically push to achieve unforeseen potential in everything we do, both within the workplace and at home. We fearlessly face challenges head-on, conquer the unconquerable, and are comfortable living in the uncomfortable zone. Together we make the impossible possible. Because at Samsung, we Own the Unknown.Are you ready to #OwnTheUnknown? Join us.

The Senior Director, Platform Architecture role spans across the entire eCommerce platform, Mobile platform and Data Warehouse platform and Hosting Platform. It includes API specifications, data store modeling, system optimizations, performance and security. This position requires extensive research, design and proposal of solutions for the business requirements. This Senior Director will provide guidelines to build successful programs for the Samsung ecommerce team, distill complex requirements from business and operations teams, having the ability to translate them into generalized and simple technical concepts for implementation of the business needs. This role is also responsible for the security of the platform and customer information, providing guidance on the best industry practice to keep the platform and the customer information secure.

The Position:

• Define and Improve the Architecture of eCommerce Platforms
• Define and maintain the guidelines for cybersecurity leading the engineering team by defining the tenets and standards to secure the system from network to the application layer
• Advocate for the best practices to protect the users’ information and privacy by providing guidance on encryption standards, protocols and PII handling and anonymization
• Design, review and approve architectural solutions to solve complex functional and technical requirements
• Translate functional requirements from business and operations teams into simple, generalized and extensible concepts
• Develop and enhance distributed systems, reusing the existing capabilities fostering for a clean and extensible foundation for future programs/projects
• Advocate new tools, frameworks, technologies and standards to guide the engineering team on the system development
• Deep understanding of processes and techniques of software development lifecycle, including development, build, test and production deployment strategies
• Collaborate with Leadership teams on roadmap development with respect to feature prioritization, delivery, high-level estimates of effort, and designs

The Candidate:

• Master’s/Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related technical field
• 15+ years of experience with software development
• 10+ years of experience with distributed systems architecture/development
• Excellent written, verbal communication, presentation and collaboration skills
• Experience in communicating with customers, technical, business teams, and management to collect requirements, describe product features, and technical designs
• Knowledge of modern software architectures, including techniques and concepts such as Serverless, Microservices, Sharding, Containerization and orchestration tools (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes) and other distributed systems concepts
• RDBMS data modeling design and normalization, health monitoring and maintenance.
• SQL and distributed data stores, such as Elasticsearch, CockroachDB, Cassandra, Vertica (data warehouse) & Hadoop
• Experience with RabbitMQ and its architecture for high availability, settings optimization, such as memory and disk watermark for best usage of the resources and its monitoring tools.
• Experience with Node.JS, Golang, Swift & Java
• Distributed caching strategies, replication, scalability and high availability powered by Redis, leveraging replication and load balancing instructions across different Redis slaves and master nodes
• Experience in handling Mobile Apps for iOS and Android

The salary range for this role is expected to be between $300,000 and $350,000. Actual pay will be determined considering factors such as relevant skills and experience, and comparison to other employees in the role.