G5 - Senior Lead Engineer - Openstack

Position - G5 - Senior Lead Engineer - Openstack - J50413

Role Summary

As a Lead Engineer, you will design, build, and support critical integrations and applications across SOMS domain. You will contribute hands-on development expertise in Java, Spring Framework, and cloud technologies (Azure/GCP) while ensuring scalability, compliance, and performance. You will work in a hybrid team model (onshore + offshore), collaborating with OMS SMEs, Enterprise architects, and contractors to deliver high-quality solutions that enable Easy experience for Staples Business customers.

• Design, build, and maintain distributed and scalable backend services to support business-critical feature.
• Collaborate with DevOps, product, and other engineering teams to define requirements and deliver long-lasting technical solutions.
• Optimize system latency, throughput, and resource usage to support high performance under variable loads.
• Address technical debt by refactoring code and infrastructure and stay updated on emerging technologies and industry trends.
• Excellent verbal and written communications with the ability to establish effective working relationships with team members and cross functional teams.
• Develop comprehensive test plans and maintain automated test suites to ensure software robustness and minimize regressions.

• 9-12 years of progressive software engineering experience, with strong experience leading the design and development of enterprise applications.
• Proficiency in at least one modern programming language such as Java or Python.
• Extensive hands-on experience designing and implementing microservices using the Spring ecosystem, including Spring Boot, Spring JPA, Spring Batch, Spring Security, Spring Cloud, and Spring Data Stream.
• Strong technical leadership in architecting highly available, fault-tolerant, and scalable distributed systems in cloud environments.
• Proven experience leading OMS or e-commerce platform development, including order capture, orchestration, fulfillment, inventory, cancelations, returns, substitutions, and exception handling.
• Ability to translate business, operations, and supply chain requirements into scalable technical solutions and system designs.
• Experience working in Agile environments, contributing to technical planning, iterative delivery, and thorough code/design reviews.
• Strong understanding of software engineering best practices, including CI/CD, automated testing, release management, and production readiness.
• Hands-on experience with distributed databases such as Azure Cosmos DB, Couchbase, or MongoDB.
• Hands-on experience with relational databases such as Oracle, MySQL, and PostgreSQL.
• Experience with distributed caching technologies such as Redis, Memcached, or Hazelcast to improve system performance.
• Strong experience with event-driven architecture and distributed messaging platforms such as Azure Event Hub, Apache Kafka, or Solace.
• Experience designing and optimizing batch and streaming data pipelines to support enterprise-scale analytics and operational processing.
• Proficiency using GitHub for version control, collaboration, and code management; familiarity with tools such as GitHub Copilot is a plus.
• Strong API development skills, including the design, implementation, documentation, and versioning of RESTful, GraphQL, or SOAP APIs, with authentication and authorization patterns such as OAuth and JWT.
• Experience creating and maintaining technical documentation, including architecture diagrams, API specifications, design documents, and operational runbooks

• Proven experience taking an idea from inception to life with an ability to explore a variety of open-source technologies.
• Experience with developing, deploying, and launching software products on public cloud preferably Microsoft Azure and GCP.
• Experience leading engineers in a complex retail or OMS environment.
• Strong mentoring skills with the ability to guide engineers through design, implementation, and problem-solving.
• Experience owning production support, incident response, root cause analysis, and system stability improvements.
• Strong collaboration skills with product, architecture, QA, support, operations, and business stakeholders.
• Experience driving platform modernization, legacy system migration, or large-scale system integration initiatives.
• Ability to influence engineering standards, promote best practices, and raise the technical maturity of the team.