Staff Architect
About The Position
Tailored Brands is a leading specialty retailer of menswear, including suits, formalwear, sportswear, and a broad selection of business casual offerings. Our brands include Men's Wearhouse, Jos. A. Bank, Moores and K&G Fashion Superstore, which offers merchandise for the entire family. We help people love the way they look and feel for their most important moments by delivering personalized products and services through our convenient network of stores and e-commerce sites. This position will lead the architectural design and development of Ecommerce and Microservices-based applications, leveraging Java and past Ecommerce experience, using data-driven insights to create scalable, efficient solutions. The role requires a deep understanding of the complete Ecommerce lifecycle, from customer browsing and product selection to order fulfillment, payment processing, and post-purchase support. Collaboration with cross-functional teams—including software engineers, product managers, and business stakeholders—is essential to define requirements and deliver scalable, impactful solutions leveraging ecommerce dataset in Oracle/DB2. The role involves designing and implementing Cloud-based solutions, with a strong emphasis on GCP (Google Cloud Platform), using industry best practices and design principles. Providing high-level oversight on portfolio decisions, influencing both business and technical architecture roadmaps, and creating and implementing scalable solutions to complex business challenges, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture standards and methodologies, are key responsibilities. The Staff Architect will partner with Product Owners and Engineering Teams to align technical design with the product roadmap and business objectives, prototype innovative, cross-platform business solutions to evaluate new technologies, and review architectural designs to ensure solutions are consistent, flexible, cost-effective, and maintainable. Additionally, the role involves guiding Application and Infrastructure Architects to ensure smooth development processes and timely releases, providing architectural consulting to engineering teams to maintain consistency, security, and flexibility in product design, fostering strong, strategic relationships with product owners, vendors, and technology teams, and staying actively engaged in both architectural and engineering activities with a hands-on approach to technology. Mentoring teams to develop advanced engineering and architecture capabilities and driving continuous learning and improvement are also crucial aspects of this position.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer and Information Technology, Computer Engineering, Engineering or a closely related field
- 12 years relevant professional experience
- 12 years of experience in software development, with a focus on Java and modern backend technologies in Ecommerce platform
- 7 years of experience in building highly available, performant systems, platforms including experience with distributed systems
- 5 years of experience designing and implementing Microservices Architecture
- 5 years of experience with cloud-based solutions (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- 5 years of solid understanding of database management (SQL/NoSQL), and the ability to query and analyze large datasets
- 5 years of experience in CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, and modern version control (Git)
- 5 years of experience in frameworks such as Spring Boot, NodeJS, ReactJS
- 5 years of experience in layered solutions and security-conscious design principles
- 5 years of experience in full range of technical architecture components across systems and products
Responsibilities
- Lead the architectural design and development of Ecommerce and Microservices-based applications, leveraging Java and past Ecommerce experience, using data-driven insights to create scalable, efficient solutions.
- Have a deep understanding of the complete Ecommerce lifecycle, from customer browsing and product selection to order fulfillment, payment processing, and post-purchase support.
- Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams—including software engineers, product managers, and business stakeholders—to define requirements and deliver scalable, impactful solutions leveraging ecommerce dataset in Oracle/DB2.
- Design and implement Cloud-based solutions, with a strong emphasis on GCP (Google Cloud Platform), using industry best practices and design principles.
- Provide high-level oversight on portfolio decisions, influencing both business and technical architecture roadmaps.
- Create and implement scalable solutions to complex business challenges, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture standards and methodologies.
- Partner with Product Owners and Engineering Teams to align technical design with the product roadmap and business objectives.
- Prototype innovative, cross-platform business solutions to evaluate new technologies.
- Review architectural designs to ensure solutions are consistent, flexible, cost-effective, and maintainable.
- Guide Application and Infrastructure Architects to ensure smooth development processes and timely releases.
- Provide architectural consulting to engineering teams to maintain consistency, security, and flexibility in product design.
- Foster strong, strategic relationships with product owners, vendors, and technology teams.
- Stay actively engaged in both architectural and engineering activities, maintaining a hands-on approach to technology.
- Mentor teams to develop advanced engineering and architecture capabilities.
- Drive continuous learning and improvement, ensuring teams meet current and future technical challenges.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
