Resident Delivery Architect – Retail

About the role

Grid Dynamics is hiring a Resident Delivery Architect to act as the resident technical leader for one of the world's largest multinational retail enterprises. The role bridges technical vision and execution, partnering with the account team to discover requirements, formulate and estimate solutions, develop proposals and carry won projects through to technical delivery. It covers key retail tracks such as Store Technology, Merchandising, Home Services/Online and SRE, championing microservices architectures, event-driven backends and AI-first engineering.

Key responsibilities

• Partner with client stakeholders and the account team to elicit requirements and identify modernization opportunities.
• Design, scope, estimate and present comprehensive technical proposals to client leadership.
• Curate and shepherd won initiatives to technical success, providing architecture governance from inception to delivery.
• Architect resilient, distributed microservices ecosystems and event-driven systems at enterprise retail scale.
• Drive adoption of AI-first and AI-native development practices across engineering teams.
• Provide architectural guidance for in-store systems, POS integration and digital retail platforms.
• Define reliability, operational readiness and SRE standards for critical retail operations.

Required profile

• 7+ years of experience in senior solution/delivery architecture or technical leadership roles in enterprise client-facing environments.
• Proven domain knowledge and architecture experience in retail (Store Technology, Merchandising or Omnichannel).
• Ability to turn client business needs into technical solutions, detailed estimates and compelling proposals.
• Strong executive communication, presentation and technical leadership skills.

Required skills

• Microservices architecture with Java and Spring Boot.
• Event-driven architectures with Apache Kafka.
• Modern web frontend frameworks (React, Angular or Vue).
• POS and store-level systems.
• AI-first/AI-native development workflows and AI-assisted coding tools.

Nice to have

• Advanced AI developer tooling such as Claude Code or GitHub Copilot.
• Background in migrating large-scale legacy systems to cloud-native retail microservices.
• SRE best practices, observability and performance tuning for high-traffic retail events.

What we offer

• Opportunity to work on cutting-edge projects with a motivated team.
• Competitive salary and flexible schedule.
• Benefits package including medical insurance and sports.
• Corporate social events and professional development opportunities.
• Well-equipped office.