We are looking for a seasoned Retail Domain & Solution Architect with strong experience in the US retail industry to provide retail domain leadership, solution architecture, technology consulting, and engineering direction for our retail clients.
The individual will work closely with US-based retail clients, senior business and technology stakeholders, product teams, engineering teams, and internal leadership to understand business challenges, define technology solutions, modernize existing applications, and drive the architecture and engineering delivery of scalable retail platforms.
This is a senior, hands-on, client-facing architecture and consulting role requiring a strong combination of retail domain expertise, software engineering, architecture, consulting, stakeholder management, and commercial awareness.
Act as a Retail Domain Subject Matter Expert and trusted technology advisor across client engagements.
Bring strong understanding of the US retail ecosystem, business processes, technology landscape, and evolving retail trends.
Provide expertise across key retail functions including Merchandising & Planning, Pricing & Promotions, Product & Catalog Management, Order Management, Inventory & Supply Chain, Store Operations, Point of Sale (POS), E-commerce & Digital Commerce, Customer & Loyalty, Omni channel / Unified Commerce, Payments, Retail Analytics & Personalization. (any 3-5 areas)
Engage with senior client stakeholders to understand business objectives and translate business problems into practical retail technology solutions.
Establish credibility with client executives, product leaders, architects, and engineering organizations through strong retail domain and technology expertise.
Define and communicate technology vision, architecture strategy, solution roadmaps, and transformation approaches for retail clients.Solution Architecture & Modernization
Define end-to-end solution architecture for new applications, platforms, and large-scale transformation initiatives.
Assess existing retail applications and recommend modernization, re-platforming, re-engineering, application rationalization, or optimization strategies.
Design scalable, secure, resilient, maintainable, and cost-effective solutions aligned with business outcomes.
Balance technical excellence with business priorities, delivery timelines, cost, risk, and operational considerations.Client Consulting & Solutioning
Work directly with US retail clients and senior stakeholders to understand business priorities, technology challenges, and transformation opportunities.
Lead discovery sessions, architecture workshops, technology assessments, solutioning sessions, and executive presentations.
Provide strategic recommendations on retail technology strategy, application modernization, cloud transformation, and engineering approaches.
Support RFP/RFI responses, proposals, solution presentations, estimations, discovery workshops and client pitches.
Influence client technology decisions through strong consulting, communication, storytelling, and executive-level engagement.
Identify opportunities where additional technology capabilities can create value for clients and support account teams in developing those opportunitiesEngineering & Delivery Leadership
Provide architectural direction and technical leadership to distributed engineering teams across the US and India.
Translate architecture into practical, executable engineering plans and ensure successful implementation.
Review high-level and detailed designs and ensure alignment with architecture and enterprise standards.
Work closely with engineering leaders to resolve complex technical, architectural, and retail-domain challenges.
Influence teams and stakeholders without direct authority, driving alignment across product, architecture, engineering, and business organizations.
Ensure architecture decisions result in solutions that are deliverable, scalable, maintainable, and aligned with business outcomes.
Influence and guide engineering teams on architecture, design standards, technical quality and implementation practices.
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