Solutions Architect - Microservices - Global Innovation Center - Retail

Solutions Architect - Microservices

- ANSR Jobs is proud to inform you of a great opportunity within the newest Retail GIC in Bangalore: Ascena Retail Group.

- You are invited to interview for an important role within this exciting company. Read below for more information.

- Ascena retail group, inc. (NASDAQ: ASNA) is a leading US specialty retailer offering apparel, shoes, and accessories for women under the Ann Taylor, LOFT, Lou & Grey, Lane Bryant, Maurice, dressbarn and Catherines brands, and for tween girls under the Justice brand.

- Our Purpose is the enduring reason we exist and the impact we seek to make in the world:

- We provide all women and girls with fashion and inspiration for living confidently every day.

- This means that we aspire to serve the full diversity of our customers- across generations, ethnicities and national borders. We reflect the diversity of the communities we have the privilege to serve.

- ascena's five-year vision is to be a collective of healthy, thriving brands that dominate in their niche and are loved by our customers. Every associate contributes to the growth of our brands and success of our company- by engaging the hearts and minds of our customers in a way that inspires her loyalty. Our Leadership Principles are a holistic set of core values that show how we will get there:

- In June 2017, ascena announced a long-term strategic move to create a Global Innovation Center (GIC) to transform our IT operating model and help the company become better, faster and more cost-efficient with technology.

- The goal is to create a best-in-class global IT service organization that allows us to improve productivity, increase our capacity to deliver new capabilities and foster more meaningful technical innovation.

- We expect that the GIC will significantly increase our internal capability through access to our own selected pool of highly capable resources. We are excited to bring critical omnichannel system capability in-house as we transition away from our current third-party relationships. The GIC is a major enabler that will allow us to compete more effectively in today's omnichannel environment.

- We plan to establish a strong, innovative set of capabilities in Bangalore in areas such as advanced analytics, agile development, micro-services architecture and technical startup incubation. We also plan to service a number of in-line critical functions from our GIC, including technical support, operating systems, and network management, database administration, e-commerce development, core retail systems support and POS lab and testing automation.

Role Name: MicroServices Solution Architect

Responsibilities :

- Assist the organization in migrating existing monolithic ATG to a cloud-based platform.

- Modernize customer applications, incrementally improving infrastructure and app architecture techniques.

- Work with clients to architect and build new cloud-native apps.

- Work collaboratively with Global Technology & Operations, Business Units, and Infrastructure technology departments to set the technology direction, vision, and strategy to modernize from the current legacy set up to a Cloud defined micro services-based architecture.

- Lead efforts to define future state architecture( Monolithic and cloud-native) and roadmaps including architecture standards, guidelines, and industry best practices

- Implement, configure, Deploy and manage Platform which will utilize Public / Private cloud services.

- Demonstrate leadership role in ensuring that new and existing systems are aligned to microservices based architecture driven by Domain Driven techniques & cloud-native design patterns.

Basic Qualifications :

- 12+ years overall IT system architecture, design, development, deployment experience

- 6+ years of Developing and maintaining e-Commerce systems using ATG

- 3+ years of experience as ATG Architect

- 2+ years of experience with Micro services architectures

- 1+ years of experience with one or more of the following: ReactJs/AngularJS, ApiGee/Loopback/Swagger, Spring Boot, Cassandra/MongoDB, Redis, Nginx

- Experience with containerization (e.g., Docker) and Container Management software (Kubernetes)

- Expert in setting up continuous Integration / continuous delivery using Hybrid architecture of ATG and Cloud

Preferred Qualifications :

- Experience with implementing run-time architecture services (caching, logging, etc) with Hybrid architecture.

- Experienced with Platforms as a Service such as Cloud Foundry, OpenShift, etc.

- Installation, configuration, and development including work within a production environment

- Experience in Performance tuning

- Experience with defining and creating methodologies, service offerings

- Experience in defining one or more following architecture aspects: Availability, Cloud Traffic Management, Maintainability, Operability, Scalability, and Portability

- Experience with deploying container-based applications using tools such as Docker

Professional Skill Requirements :

- Exceptional, passionate, customer facing, hands-on architect willing to help customers realize the benefits of cloud-native applications and architectures.

- Experience building distributed / service oriented / micro-services style and cloud-based architecture.

- Excellent leadership skills, with the ability to generate stakeholder buy-in and lead through influence at a senior management level

- Strong verbal and written communication skills Ability to work in collaborative, cross-functional, and multi-cultural teams

- Proficiency in ATG eCommerce Framework and Endeca Search Engine is a must. Proficiency and implementation skills on ATG based application with large-scale applications.

- Highly experienced ATG Architect caliber expected with hands-on experience designing ATG based complex B2C applications with high-performing, scaling and Enterprise-grade services.

- Hands-on ability to create micro-services using ATG/Endeca.

- Ability to perform in high-pressure Agile environment

- Have an understanding of - or implementation experience in - building Twelve-Factor applications, and using Domain Driven Design.

- Java expert, with experience and familiarity building modern Spring application with Spring Boot; strong background with Spring and related projects.

- Agile practitioner, familiar with extreme programming, tests driven development, pairing, continuous integration, continuous delivery, and related techniques.

- Experience refactoring enterprise modernization/net-new application development for medium to large-scale applications from legacy platform to the future state platform to be defined by PaaS based architecture

- Experience in Retail/Apparel industry is a plus.