Principal, Software Architect
Schneider Electric2 months ago
Responsibilities
- Define, design, and govern end-to-end architecture across frontend, middleware, APIs, backend, and integration layers.
- Drive the technology strategy and architectural roadmap for B2C, B2B, and eCommerce web platforms.
- Lead platform initiatives involving scalability, performance optimization, CDN and edge caching, operational resilience, observability, SLOs, and reliability metrics.
- Identify systemic gaps, bottlenecks, technical debt, recurring defects, and root causes, and guide durable fixes.
- Act as the technical authority for complex system design, architecture decisions, solution design, architecture reviews, and critical delivery milestones.
- Provide hands-on guidance in key code areas and mentor engineering teams to improve technical quality and maturity.
- Translate business requirements into scalable, implementation-ready solutions aligned with platform strategy.
- Guide adoption of modular and monorepo architectures, microservices, API-first designs, event-driven designs, cloud-native practices, headless CMS, and composable architectures.
- Lead architecture governance, design reviews, technical audits, decision gates, quality checkpoints, and regulatory alignment.
- Partner with QA, DevOps, and Release Management on CI/CD, release governance, production readiness, and change impact analysis.
- Communicate architecture vision, trade-offs, and risks to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Collaborate with Product, Engineering, QA, and Business teams to align customer experience with platform capabilities.
- Introduce tools, frameworks, and practices that improve developer productivity, platform performance, and delivery efficiency.
Requirements
- 12–18+ years of experience in software engineering.
- At least 5 years in architect-level roles leading large-scale web platforms.
- Strong experience architecting enterprise web platforms across frontend, backend, and integration layers.
- Deep understanding of logged-in and non-logged-in B2C, B2B, and eCommerce customer journeys.
- Hands-on expertise with SvelteKit, React, Angular, headless UI, hybrid SSR/CSR rendering, and reusable components such as Quartz.
- Hands-on expertise with Node.js, Java, serverless architectures such as Lambda, middleware aggregation, and server-side rendering.
- Experience with third-party integrations for search, personalization, and content indexing.
- Strong knowledge of APIs, microservices, REST and GraphQL services, API gateways, messaging, reverse-proxy routing, traffic handling, and CDN or edge caching.
- Experience with CMS and composable platforms such as Builder.io and Spryker.
- Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP and cloud service containers such as Amplify and K8.
- Strong understanding of scalability, performance engineering, resilience patterns, and security best practices.
- Experience with Dynatrace, telemetry, JMeter, load testing, and Core Web Vitals including LCP, CLS, and INP.
- Exposure to CI/CD, DevOps practices, observability, monitoring tools, and Nx or monorepo-based setups.
- Ability to own the complete solution lifecycle from architecture through execution alignment.
- Strong communication, stakeholder management, decisive judgment, and problem-solving skills.
- Preferred certifications include TOGAF or AWS Architect.
- Proven experience with platform transformation initiatives and multi-team ecosystems.
Benefits
- Flexible working hours.
- Hybrid work plan with work-from-home flexibility.
- Holy Pack allowing employees to purchase additional vacation days.
- Floating holidays that can be exchanged for other days.
- Sabbatical Pack offering up to 2 months of additional unpaid leave.
- Global Family Leave Policy with flexible paid conditions.
- Access to the Wellwo health and wellness platform for the employee and up to five chosen people.
- Wellhub access to gyms, sports centers, classes, and wellness services.
- Medical service available at the workplace.
- Career Hub professional development platform with global opportunities, projects, and mentors.
- Employee stock ownership program.
- Recognition program with redeemable gift cards.
- Life insurance.
- Flexible Remuneration Plan including options such as health insurance, meal vouchers, childcare vouchers, transportation vouchers, and training.
- Club Schneider discounts at stores, restaurants, travel agencies, and other services.
- Company-subsidized volunteer programs.
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About Schneider Electric
Schneider Electric is a global energy technology leader, driving efficiency and sustainability by electrifying, automating, and digitalizing industries, businesses, and homes. Its technologies enable buildings, data centers, factories, infrastructure, and grids to operate as open, interconnected ecosystems—enhancing performance, resilience, and sustainability. The portfolio includes intelligent devices, software-defined architectures, AI-powered systems, digital services, and expert advisory. With 160,000 employees and one million partners in over 100 countries, Schneider Electric is consistently ranked among the world’s most sustainable companies. www.se.com Follow us on: https://www.facebook.com/SchneiderElectric https://www.x.com/SchneiderElec https://www.x.com/SE_Careers https://www.instagram.com/schneiderelectric https://www.youtube.com/schneiderelectric https://www.tiktok.com/@schneiderelectric_global