Solution Architect

Location: Ahmedabad, India; Hyderabad, India

Department: Z-Michaels-COE

Experience: 15+

Job Description – E-commerce Solution Architect

Role

Experience

Role Overview

Key Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the end-to-end architecture for e-commerce applications across frontend, backend, APIs, integrations, and cloud infrastructure.
• Design scalable and highly available solutions using Java, Spring Boot, microservices, REST APIs, and React.
• Define frontend architecture and best practices using React, TypeScript, state management, and reusable components.
• Design cloud-native solutions on GCP, considering scalability, reliability, security, performance, and cost optimization.
• Work with engineering teams to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Define architecture standards, design patterns, coding standards, and technology guidelines.
• Review technical designs, architecture decisions, and implementation approaches.
• Identify technical risks, dependencies, and potential scalability or performance issues.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to developers, leads, and engineering teams.
• Collaborate with DevOps teams on CI/CD, infrastructure, observability, monitoring, and deployment strategies.
• Ensure solutions follow security, compliance, and enterprise architecture standards.
• Evaluate new technologies and recommend solutions that improve engineering productivity and application capabilities.
• Support troubleshooting of complex production issues and provide long-term architectural solutions.

Technical Skills

• Java 11/17+
• Spring Boot / Spring Framework
• Microservices architecture
• REST APIs
• Event-driven architecture
• Kafka or similar messaging platforms
• Distributed systems and caching

• React
• TypeScript / JavaScript
• React-based application architecture
• State management
• Responsive and reusable UI architecture
• Frontend performance optimization

• Strong hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform
• GKE / Kubernetes
• Cloud Run
• Cloud Functions
• API Gateway / Apigee
• Pub/Sub
• Cloud SQL / Spanner
• Cloud Storage
• IAM and security
• Cloud Load Balancing
• Monitoring and Logging
• VPC and networking
• Cloud-native architecture and cost optimization

• GitHub / Git
• CI/CD
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Infrastructure as Code, preferably Terraform
• Automated testing
• Observability and application monitoring

E-commerce Experience

• Product catalog
• Search
• Pricing and promotions
• Cart and checkout
• Order management
• Payment integrations
• Inventory
• Customer/account management
• Personalization
• Store and e-commerce integrations
• Third-party integrations
• High-volume transactional systems

Architecture & Leadership

• Strong understanding of domain-driven design (DDD) and microservices.
• Experience designing high-volume, low-latency distributed systems.
• Strong understanding of API design and integration patterns.
• Experience with scalability, resilience, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery.
• Ability to make architecture decisions considering performance, maintainability, security, and cost.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to work with senior engineering and business stakeholders and clearly communicate complex technical concepts.
• Experience mentoring technical leads and senior engineers.

Preferred Qualifications

• 12+ years of software engineering experience with 5+ years in an Architect/Senior Architect role.
• Experience architecting large-scale e-commerce platforms.
• Strong combination of Java + React + GCP experience.
• GCP certification is a plus.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.
• Experience working with distributed/global engineering teams.

What We Are Looking For