What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Architect position at 7-Eleven, Inc.?
▶ Who we are
Imagine working in a place where continuous improvement and innovation is celebrated and rewarded; where fast-paced, high-impact teams come together to positively drive results for one of the largest & most iconic brands in the world.
As the only rapidly growing retailer, you may know us as your friendly neighborhood store. You probably know our familiar name, have seen our pervasive logo, and have tried our highly sought-after products, such as Slurpee® and Big Bite®. “Brain Freeze” is a 7-Eleven registered trademark for our 53-year old Slurpee® and with over 67,000 stores globally (more than any other retailer or food service provider), we sell over 14 million a month.
But there’s a lot more to our story and much more left to be written. We are transforming our business, ensuring we are customer obsessed and digitally enabled to seamlessly link our brick and mortar stores with digital products and services.
At 7-Eleven the entrepreneurial spirit is in our DNA and has been ever since our inception 90 years ago. It’s what drove us to invent the convenience industry in 1927 by envisioning how a simple ice dock could provide household staples such as milk and eggs to better serve the needs of our customers.
Today we are redefining convenience and the customer experience in big ways...we are fundamentally changing our culture and we want talented, innovative, customer obsessed, and entrepreneurial people like you to come make history with us.
▶ How we lead
At 7-Eleven we are guided by our Leadership Principles.
- Be Customer Obsessed
- Be Courageous with Your Point of View
- Challenge the Status Quo
- Act Like an Entrepreneur
- Have an “It Can Be Done” Attitude
- Do the Right Thing
- Be Accountable
Each principle has a defined set of behaviors which help guide the 7-Eleven team to Serve Customers and Support Stores.
▶ About This Opportunity
Responsibilities
Responsibilities:
- Define and design the software architecture for projects, including selecting appropriate technologies, frameworks, and patterns. Design a blueprint for the solution based on customer requirements and with regard to available technologies.
- Develop code; write tests; Write code to enforce standards for engineers so that such things as scalability, performance, and security won’t be missed at the initial stage.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to understand and address their needs and requirements. Ensure that the software system is scalable, maintainable, and secure. Clarify the requirements with the development teams.
- Evaluating technical trends and provide recommendations for technology and architecture to meet business objectives.
- Ability to deep dive of any critical task with hands on, in any of the open technology stack.
- Create and maintain documentation for the software architecture.
- Participate in code quality, code reviews and provide necessary feedback.
- Provide technical leadership and guidance to software development teams.
- Understand/guide the project development teams for the overall project activities.
- Identify and address any technical risks or challenges. Ensure that the software architecture adheres to industry best practices and standards.
Qualifications
Required:
- Hands-on experience in architecture and designing. Proven track record of delivering futuristic mission critical applications.
- Hand-on experience in web development using Java, Spring Boot, HTML5, Java Script, jQuery, CSS. Experience with React/Angular is a big plus.
- Strong knowledge of software architecture principles, patterns, and best practices.
- Hands on experience in distributed system architecture, microservices and event driven development.
- Hands-on experience in web services (REST, SOAP, WSDL etc.),
- Experience in both SQL Database such as Oracle MySQL, PostgreSQL etc. as well as NoSQL DB (Cassandra preferred)
- Hands-on experience in Maven/Gradle, Version control (Git), Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD and any cloud platform (Azure preferred)
- Hands on experience in Unified Modeling Language (UML) to describe systems to elaborate system(s) easily and quickly.
Qualifications
- 12 years of full stack application development experience using Java, J2EE, Spring boot, Spring cloud, Spring Data JPA, Spring Integration, ReactJS/Angular, Node.js.
- 5 years of strong experience in Relational Databases, Oracle, SQL, ORM technologies (JPA2, Hibernate) and NoSQL (Cassandra, Mongo) experiences.
- 4 years of solid hands-on experience in Microservices architecture and Domain Driven Design (DDD) approach.
- 4 years of hands-on experience in developing and deploying solutions in cloud platform on Azure or AWS services.
- 4 years of experience developing with large microservice-based architectures, container orchestration frameworks: Kubernetes/Amazon EKS/ Azure AKS.
- 4 years of strong work experience in message streaming platform like Kafka, Rabbit MQ.
- Experience in CI/CD DevOps - Jenkins/Docker/Ansible/Maven/Ant.
- Understanding of MVC / MVVM / MVP structure and development patterns.
- Knowledge of high-quality professional software engineering practices for agile software development cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and deployment.
- Experience in partnering with product and program management teams.
- Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements.
- Mentoring the team members to meet the stakeholder's needs and holding them accountable for high standards of delivery.
