Senior Software Architect
Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions - External11 hours ago
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end solution architecture across discovery, design, delivery, and operational readiness.
- Design and implement scalable platform infrastructure, APIs, microservices, data pipelines, and shared services.
- Own client-facing architecture activities, including workshops, technical presentations, approvals, and solution delivery.
- Define partner integration architectures, API contracts, data models, authentication strategies, error handling, and versioning.
- Lead Discovery and Delivery Tracks, translating validated discovery outcomes into production backlogs and implementations.
- Write production code, build prototypes and reference implementations, participate in code reviews, and solve complex technical problems.
- Define architecture standards, reusable patterns, non-functional requirements, quality gates, and risk mitigations.
- Mentor engineers and architects on architecture practices, infrastructure patterns, AI-assisted development, and platform best practices.
- Contribute to platform and portfolio strategy by identifying reusable assets, shared APIs, and infrastructure investments.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
- At least 8 years of professional software development experience, including recent hands-on coding and prototyping.
- At least 5 years designing cloud-native, microservices, or event-driven architectures using Azure or equivalent cloud platforms.
- Strong experience building platform infrastructure and scalable backend systems.
- Experience owning end-to-end solution delivery for medium-to-large projects, including post-release operational accountability.
- Experience with partner integrations involving payments, SaaS APIs, loyalty, inventory, or authentication providers.
- Expertise in API-first design using REST and OpenAPI, plus experience with relational and non-relational databases.
- Experience with containerization, Kubernetes-based delivery pipelines, and infrastructure as code.
- Practical experience with generative AI and AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, or Cursor.
- Excellent stakeholder communication skills, including facilitating workshops and presenting technical solutions.
- Leadership experience mentoring engineers, conducting code reviews, and enforcing architecture governance.
- Preferred retail platform knowledge covering POS systems, store operations, or payment processing.
- Preferred certifications such as Azure Solutions Architect or AWS Solutions Architect.
- Preferred experience with Azure APIM, Kong, Apigee, MuleSoft, Boomi, OAuth 2.0/OIDC, JWT, PCI, OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, JSON Schema, distributed systems, and Dual-Track Agile.
Benefits
- Group medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- Employee Assistance Programs and pre-tax spending accounts.
- 401(k) plan with company match.
- Company-provided life insurance and pet insurance.
- Employee discounts.
- Paid holidays, vacation, and sick/personal days.
- Must be located near or within the Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina area.
Tech Stack
Categories
Solutions Engineering
About Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions - External
Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions builds retail point-of-sale and self-checkout systems, software, and peripherals for supermarkets, big-box, and specialty retailers. It sells integrated hardware, retail operating systems and middleware, and field services that install, maintain, and repair in-store technologies. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Durham, North Carolina, it serves global chains; customers cited in job postings include Walmart, Kroger, Costco, Carrefour, Boots, and The Gap.