Herbalife - Torrance, CA
posted 8 days ago
About the position
The Principal II, Solutions Architect is responsible for technology evaluation and defining solution architecture. This role requires a strong grasp of software technology architect skills, critical thinking, and decision-making abilities to analyze complex situations and design elegant solutions. As a core member of the Solution Architecture team, the individual will have expertise in microservices/MACH-based architectures, Event-driven Kafka, Kubernetes, and Cloud Native technologies. The role involves re-architecting, re-platforming, and designing the next generation of Herbalife product offerings and the platforms they run on. Additionally, the architect will ensure performance, scalability, and security by designing, developing, and delivering scalable solutions to support Digital Office Business initiatives and product teams both regionally and globally.
Responsibilities
- Conceptualization of solutions architecture and evaluating technology choices tradeoffs.
- Evaluating design decisions and defining software characteristics tradeoffs while ensuring architecture compliance.
- Understanding company goals and business operations to identify needs and develop innovative solutions.
- Building proof of concepts to help make design choices and evaluate new technologies for product solutions.
- Championing standard processes and introducing innovative industry standards; sharing knowledge and mentoring.
- Working closely with internal business partners to understand use cases and build end-to-end solutions.
- Partnering with engineering and enterprise architecture to propose and evaluate tradeoffs for solution design decisions.
- Demonstrating business knowledge and expertise to find opportunities for process improvements.
Requirements
- Advanced hands-on practical experience of designing/deploying microservices using application architectural patterns on Kubernetes.
- Strong career progression from engineering to architecture roles with a firm technical grasp to create technical specifications and solutions design documentation.
- Experience with major cloud providers such as Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, and Google GCP.
- Experience building microservices with API specifications and event-driven patterns.
- Experience with integration technologies and standards such as openAPI, Kafka, and GraphQL.
- Experience in orchestrating integrations with various systems and evaluating data integration design.
- Extensive experience in application configuration, deployment, and scalability using Kubernetes.
- Proficiency in Terraform and CI/CD pipeline tooling, Observability tools, and Configuration Management tooling.
- Experience in building highly available large-scale enterprise-wide systems.
- Ability to work optimally with multi-functional teams.
- A keen eye for detail and a commitment to quality and continuous improvement.
Nice-to-haves
- Preferred knowledge/experience of retail industry trends, challenges, and standard methodologies.
- Preferred understanding of end-to-end content lifecycle, omnichannel ecommerce architectures, web content management, order management, and delivery processes.
Benefits
- Group Health Programs including Medical, Dental, Vision, Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA).
- Basic Life/AD&D; Short-Term and Long-Term Disability, and an Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
- 401(k) plan, Wellness Incentive Program, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP).
- Supplemental Life/Critical Illness/Hospitalization/Accident Insurance, and Pet Insurance.
- Paid time off including Company-observed U.S. Holidays, Floating Holidays, Vacation, Sick Time, a Volunteer Program, Paid Maternity and Paternity Leave, Bereavement Leave, Personal Leave, and time off for voting.
