Architect - Engineering
Posted
Summary
Lead full-stack architect at HD Supply's Chennai Global Capability Center, defining target-state architecture and governance for enterprise Java microservices, modern frontends, and BODS-driven integrations. Day to day: run design reviews, produce reference architectures and standards, and mentor developers and technical leads.
As an Architect – Full Stack, you will lead the design of enterprise-scale, full-stack solutions that support
digital and operational transformation across the organization. Working closely with product,
engineering, data integration, security, and operations stakeholders, you will shape architecture
decisions across Java microservices, modern frontend stacks, and backend services, including
enterprise integrations.
This role requires a strong blend of deep technical breadth and architecture leadership, with a focus
on scalability, resilience, performance, and governed delivery at scale.
Strategy and Planning:
• Define target-state architecture and modernization roadmaps across applications, integrations, and platforms, aligned to business outcomes
• Establish enterprise architecture guardrails covering service design, API standards, integration patterns, and frontend engineering principles
• Drive domain and boundary decisions for microservices, including ownership models, dependency strategy, and migration sequencing
• Govern architecture decision-making through structured reviews, risk assessments, and technology rationalization across the portfolio
• Identify opportunities to embed AI and machine learning capabilities across applications and platforms by assessing where predictive models, GenAI services or intelligent automation can enhance system behaviour and user experience
• Set non-functional standards for availability, observability, performance, security, and data integrity, ensuring consistent engineering outcomes
Delivery and Execution:
• Lead solution architecture for complex initiatives spanning frontend, backend, and integrations, ensuring cohesive end-to-end design
• Produce reference architectures and implementation accelerators that teams can adopt consistently across products and programs
• Architect integration flows using BODS with controlled data movement, scheduling discipline, lineage awareness, and failure handling
• Guide delivery teams through architecture runway planning, design validation, and build-time decisions for predictable execution
Support and Enablement:
• Establish architecture playbooks, reusable templates, and standards that reduce rework and improve delivery consistency • Partner with security and platform teams to embed secure-by-design controls and governance into engineering workflows • Strengthen operational readiness through production checklists, performance reviews, and release risk mitigation mechanisms
• Enable cross-team alignment through clear documentation, decision logs, and stakeholder communication for complex dependencies
People Leadership:
• Mentor developers and technical leads through coaching, reviews, and hands-on guidance to strengthen architecture quality
• Build an architecture community of practice that promotes best practices, reuse, and consistent technical decision-making • Foster a culture of accountability and continuous improvement through disciplined reviews and outcome-based engineering standards
Strategy and Planning:
• Define target-state architecture and modernization roadmaps across applications, integrations, and platforms, aligned to business outcomes
• Establish enterprise architecture guardrails covering service design, API standards, integration patterns, and frontend engineering principles
• Drive domain and boundary decisions for microservices, including ownership models, dependency strategy, and migration sequencing
• Govern architecture decision-making through structured reviews, risk assessments, and technology rationalization across the portfolio
• Identify opportunities to embed AI and machine learning capabilities across applications and platforms by assessing where predictive models, GenAI services or intelligent automation can enhance system behaviour and user experience
• Set non-functional standards for availability, observability, performance, security, and data integrity, ensuring consistent engineering outcomes
Delivery and Execution:
• Lead solution architecture for complex initiatives spanning frontend, backend, and integrations, ensuring cohesive end-to-end design
• Produce reference architectures and implementation accelerators that teams can adopt consistently across products and programs
• Architect integration flows using BODS with controlled data movement, scheduling discipline, lineage awareness, and failure handling
• Guide delivery teams through architecture runway planning, design validation, and build-time decisions for predictable execution
Support and Enablement:
• Establish architecture playbooks, reusable templates, and standards that reduce rework and improve delivery consistency • Partner with security and platform teams to embed secure-by-design controls and governance into engineering workflows • Strengthen operational readiness through production checklists, performance reviews, and release risk mitigation mechanisms
• Enable cross-team alignment through clear documentation, decision logs, and stakeholder communication for complex dependencies
People Leadership:
• Mentor developers and technical leads through coaching, reviews, and hands-on guidance to strengthen architecture quality
• Build an architecture community of practice that promotes best practices, reuse, and consistent technical decision-making • Foster a culture of accountability and continuous improvement through disciplined reviews and outcome-based engineering standards
Requirements
Education and
Certifications:
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline
• TOGAF 9 or equivalent enterprise architecture certification is preferred
Required Experience:
• 12–15 years of overall experience in software engineering with ownership of enterprise-scale delivery and operational outcomes
• 4+ years of relevant experience in technical architecture across full stack systems spanning frontend, backend, and integrations
• Proven experience designing and governing architectures for Java microservices platforms in enterprise environments
• Experience leading modernization programs, including decomposition , migration sequencing, and controlled cutover planning across systems.
• Experience working in a GCC setup with global teams, including stakeholder alignment across time zones and regions
Essential Skills:
• Strong enterprise technical architecture leadership across frontend, backend, integrations, and shared platform capabilities at scale
• Experienced designing Java microservices with domain boundaries, API contracts, resiliency patterns, and reliability-focused interfaces
• Strong architecture governance skills driving structured design reviews, decision logs, risk management, and technology standardization
• Experienced defining integration patterns using ETL/ELT with robust scheduling, failure recovery, data validation, and lineage controls
• Experienced creating reference architectures, reusable accelerators, and templates that improve consistency across multiple delivery teams
• Strong debugging mindset translating production learnings into architecture improvements, preventative controls, and operational readiness standards
Desired Skills:
• Familiar with enterprise platform patterns for identity, secrets management, and policy guardrails across application ecosystems
• Experienced mentoring architects and leads, building communities of practice, and scaling architecture capability across teams
• Strong experience establishing engineering metrics and governance to improve delivery predictability, quality, and operational outcomes
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline
• TOGAF 9 or equivalent enterprise architecture certification is preferred
Required Experience:
• 12–15 years of overall experience in software engineering with ownership of enterprise-scale delivery and operational outcomes
• 4+ years of relevant experience in technical architecture across full stack systems spanning frontend, backend, and integrations
• Proven experience designing and governing architectures for Java microservices platforms in enterprise environments
• Experience leading modernization programs, including decomposition , migration sequencing, and controlled cutover planning across systems.
• Experience working in a GCC setup with global teams, including stakeholder alignment across time zones and regions
Essential Skills:
• Strong enterprise technical architecture leadership across frontend, backend, integrations, and shared platform capabilities at scale
• Experienced designing Java microservices with domain boundaries, API contracts, resiliency patterns, and reliability-focused interfaces
• Strong architecture governance skills driving structured design reviews, decision logs, risk management, and technology standardization
• Experienced defining integration patterns using ETL/ELT with robust scheduling, failure recovery, data validation, and lineage controls
• Experienced creating reference architectures, reusable accelerators, and templates that improve consistency across multiple delivery teams
• Strong debugging mindset translating production learnings into architecture improvements, preventative controls, and operational readiness standards
Desired Skills:
• Familiar with enterprise platform patterns for identity, secrets management, and policy guardrails across application ecosystems
• Experienced mentoring architects and leads, building communities of practice, and scaling architecture capability across teams
• Strong experience establishing engineering metrics and governance to improve delivery predictability, quality, and operational outcomes
Benefits
- Be part of a globally recognized leader in the home improvement sector, committed to
operational excellence and sustainability
- Opportunity to contribute to a rapidly expanding Global Capability Center (GTC) in Chennai,
playing a vital role in global operations
- Exposure to diverse global technology environment and cross-functional team collaborations
- Competitive compensation package and comprehensive benefits
- Clear pathways for career advancement and continuous learning opportunities within a high
performance organization