Technology/Retail Platform Architect

What you'll do

• Define technical vision, standards, and roadmaps for runtime infrastructure, developer tooling, and enterprise AI platforms.
• Architect scalable, multi-region container orchestration, service meshes, and distributed messaging pipelines.
• Design self-service internal developer platforms and automated CI/CD pipelines to accelerate development cycles.
• Institutionalize Site Reliability Engineering practices, including chaos testing and automated multi-region failovers.
• Implement unified observability for metrics, logs, and traces across the platform ecosystem.
• Guide platform engineering squads and mentor senior engineers on architectural health and feature velocity.
• Stand up scalable AI runtime and inference architectures, including vector databases and model deployment runtimes.

What we're looking for

• Minimum of 8 years in software architecture, distributed systems, and platform engineering.
• Minimum of 5 years in an architect or technical lead role running massive, internet-scale production environments.
• Minimum of 3 years supporting the Retail Industry and/or clients.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years' work experience).
• Associate’s Degree must be accompanied by equivalent work experience.
• Production mastery of Kubernetes, cloud-native architectures (AWS/GCP/Azure), service meshes, and high-throughput messaging (preferred).
• Experience building internal developer platforms, GitOps workflows, infrastructure-as-code, and AI/ML infrastructure (preferred).