Technical Architect - Relex
HybridKharadi, State of Mahārāshtra, Republic of India
Job Summary
Own and evolve the technical architecture for the Ultra Fresh product team implementing RELEX SaaS for demand forecasting and replenishment. Act as design authority for the METRO–RELEX integration landscape, defining blueprint specifications, interface patterns, and operational runbooks. Lead inbound and outbound integrations between METRO systems and RELEX, including batch flows, APIs, data transformations, and error-handling mechanisms. Collaborate with Product Owners, consultants, and engineering teams to translate business needs into robust technical solutions while providing guidance on APIs, data pipelines, and cloud services. Review solution designs, code quality, and deployment readiness before major releases or go-live milestones. Drive technical risk identification, mitigation planning, and root-cause analysis for complex integration issues. Support SIT, UAT, cutover, hypercare, and stabilization activities from a technical readiness perspective. Ensure proper technical documentation, knowledge transfer, and handover to Application Managed Services. Define the target operating model for technical ownership and coordinate vendor escalations with RELEX and Accenture. Mentor engineers to grow internal capability around RELEX integrations, SaaS operations, and cloud-based engineering practices.
Required Qualifications
- Strong experience as Solution Architect, Technical Architect, Integration Architect, or Senior Engineer in enterprise-scale implementation projects
- Solid understanding of SaaS implementation models, vendor-managed platforms, shared responsibility models, and integration constraints
- Strong knowledge of integration architecture, including REST APIs, batch processing, file-based integrations, event-driven patterns, data transformation, and interface monitoring
- Experience designing and operating integrations between enterprise systems and external SaaS platforms
- Good understanding of data architecture concepts, including master data, transactional data, historical data loading, data quality, data validation, and reconciliation
- Experience with Java, SQL, PL/SQL, Spring Boot, Swagger/OpenAPI, and RESTful APIs
- Experience with databases and data platforms such as PostgreSQL, Oracle, Cloud SQL, and BigQuery
- Experience with cloud, DevOps, and observability tooling such as Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, Docker, GitHub, GitHub Actions, SonarQube, and DataDog
- Experience with messaging and integration technologies such as Kafka, Pub/Sub, Azure Blob Storage, or comparable enterprise integration platforms
- Ability to define technical documentation, architecture diagrams, interface specifications, operational runbooks, and integration test strategies
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis skills
- Ability to influence technical decisions across multiple teams, vendors, and stakeholders without relying only on formal authority
- Excellent communication skills in English, both written and verbal, with the ability to explain complex technical topics to business and leadership stakeholders
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with RELEX, retail forecasting, replenishment, supply chain planning, or similar enterprise planning platforms
- Experience with RELEX Connect, SaaS integration layers, batch runs, nightly/weekly runs, monitoring, and operational data handling
- Experience with Azure Blob Storage, Azure integration services, or hybrid Azure/GCP integration landscapes
- Experience working with external vendors or implementation partners in large-scale rollout programs
- Experience supporting pilot-to-rollout transitions, multi-country deployments, hypercare, and stabilization phases
- Experience defining support models across L1, L2, L3, vendor support, and internal product teams
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated deployment processes, environment management, and release governance
- Understanding of security, access management, SSO, role mapping, auditability, and compliance requirements in SaaS implementations
- Strong leadership mindset with the ability to mentor engineers, challenge designs constructively, and keep technical delivery aligned with business outcomes
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