Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions is seeking an experienced Software Enterprise Architect to join a high-performing team developing cloud-based solutions for the Retail industry. In this role, you will be responsible for driving the design, development and implementation of cloud-based microservice software solutions. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in software architecture and a proven track record of developing distributed systems at scale. You will work closely with our development teams to create high-level and detailed technical design documents, build software prototypes, and conduct experiments to evaluate alternative architectures. If you are passionate about developing innovative software solutions that drive both development teams and the business, we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity.

Responsibilities:

• The Software Architect must have a broad technical background with extensive experience in designing, deploying, and supporting distributed software solutions.
• The candidate must have strong software technology, programming and analytical skills, teamwork, and excellent communication skills. The candidate will also need to communicate at different levels in the organization with other software technical roles, business leaders and customers.
• The candidate will participate in the Architectural Review Boards with technical leaders across the organization to ensure technical alignment, consistent design principles, practices, tools, and technologies. They will cement solid, reliable, and scalable software solutions for our customers.
• Generate internal white papers on standard design and approaches
• Collaborate with the development team and product to design software solutions
• Perform code contributions, code reviews, and maintain high coding and quality standards.
• Research innovative software technologies, best practices, and current industry trends, and facilitate their adoption by the team.
• Ensure quality and efficiency of the product architecture and the source code.
• Mentoring junior developers and new team members.
• Complete all work items including legal clearances, regulatory requirements, product certifications, and ensure that the software meets industry standards.
• Interact with stakeholders such as technical project manager and product manager as appropriate to discuss product functionality, performance, plans and field support escalations.
• Identify and resolve problems, gaps, and challenges in the software engineering processes.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

Areas of Expertise & Special Skills:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field.
• 10+ years professional experience in software development.
• 5+ years of experience building and supporting cloud based microservice systems.
• In-depth understanding of cloud computing technologies (such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud) and experience with cloud-based architecture patterns (such as serverless computing, containerization (dockers) and Kubernetes)
• Strong experience in designing and implementing microservice-based solutions, including API design, distributed systems, and event-driven architectures.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams, stakeholders and customers
• Ability to convert technical specifications from the design team or third-party vendors into software implementation.
• Experience with high availability configurations for web architectures (application server, database, and hardware)
• Strong analytical and Java programming skills.
• Technical skills in software development technologies and tools such as socket communication, DI, CI, Spring Boot, XML/JSON, Java, JavaScript, Docker, Dagger2, maven.
• Problem determination and debugging, attention to detail, teamwork, and excellent communication skills.
• Knowledge of software development concepts/methodology/life cycle, especially Agile methodology
• Proficiency with code versioning tools like Git
• Proficiency with Windows- and Linux-based operating systems, including software installation, light administration, and simple scripting.
• Fluency in English

Preferred Skills:

• Knowledge of Swagger and REST design
• Working knowledge of network communication using sockets and HTTPS.
• Experience with retail technologies and payment processing.
• Knowledge of cloud computing technologies, Azure.
• Knowledge of SQL and non-relational databases such as MongoDB.
• Software development related certifications.
• Experience with PCI data security standards.
• Knowledge in Retail business