Client Software Architect
Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions - External3 days 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, shared services, and reusable architecture patterns.
- Own client-facing solution delivery, including workshops, technical presentations, stakeholder alignment, implementation, approvals, and operational accountability.
- Design and govern partner integration architectures for payments, loyalty, inventory, authentication providers, SaaS APIs, and cloud services.
- Lead Discovery and Delivery Tracks, translating prototypes and discovery outcomes into production backlogs and technical specifications.
- Write production code, build prototypes and reference implementations, participate in code reviews, and deliver complex platform and client features.
- Define architecture standards, integration patterns, API contracts, authentication strategies, non-functional requirements, quality gates, and risk mitigations.
- Mentor engineers and junior architects and contribute to platform strategy, reusable assets, automation, and continuous improvement.
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 on Azure or equivalent cloud platforms.
- Strong experience building platform infrastructure, scalable backend systems, APIs, integrations, and production-quality implementations.
- 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, infrastructure as code, and distributed systems.
- Practical experience with generative AI and AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, or Cursor.
- Strong stakeholder communication, workshop facilitation, technical presentation, mentoring, code review, and architecture governance skills.
- Preferred qualifications include retail platform or POS knowledge, Azure or AWS Solutions Architect certification, API gateway or integration-platform experience, API security and compliance knowledge, formal specifications such as AsyncAPI and JSON Schema, and experience leading Dual-Track Agile processes.
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.
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.