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(monoliths, microservices, modularization) ? Contribute to and maintain our
org wide Architecture Decision Records? Support the delivery and
maintenance of our Backend Engineering Policies, Procedures and
Standards? CI/CD practices, environment configuration, feedback loops etc?
Backend tooling, frameworks, their application, quality gating and
measurement? Technology stack/services consultancy and selection in
accordance with technical and quality requirements (scalability, performance,
security, compliance)? Support our platform & Backend Operational Practices?
Drive Ecommerce and Parts Town wide projects? Disaster Resiliency,
Recovery and Availability Planning capabilities? Logging strategies for efficient
root cause analysis and low MTTR?s? Monitoring, Alerting and on-call policies
? Unit, Integration and Acceptance level, API contract testing strategies?
Ongoing metrics and dashboarding on backend performance (SLAs, SLOs,
SLIs, Golden Signals dashboarding etc)? Drive best in class Backend
strategies? Our customers need to love what we do for them? Work across
disciplines and with other Principal Engineers to evangelize for the needs of
the Backend discipline? Knowledge transfer, training, mentoring of backend
practices across the engineering org
Competencies: Digital : Amazon Web Service(AWS) Cloud Computing,
Digital : Kubernetes, Digital: Terraform, Digital : Site Reliability Engineering
(SRE)

Essential Skills: ? Extensive ecommerce experience and the latest
capabilities in the space. Exposure and usage of major ecommerce platforms
(SAP Commerce Cloud, Magento, Mirakl, Punchouts etc)? Expert knowledge
of backend technologies, their strengths and weaknesses and how to get the
most out of them e.g. SAP Commerce Cloud, SAP S/4, ElasticSearch/Solr,
Redis, MSSQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL? An advocate and enabler of strong
quality controls (unit, integration, acceptance testing frameworks and
methodologies) using industry leading tooling (Junit, SonarCloud, Jmeter,
Webdriver.io etc)? Proficiency in one or more major cloud platforms, such as
Azure (preference), Google Cloud, AWS or others; A deep understanding of
cloud native methodologies? Containerization technologies:
Docker/ContainerD, Kubernetes (K8S, K3S), container registries and artifact
tools (e.g. Artifactory, GCR, ACR, ECR)? An applied knowledge of vertical and
horizontal scaling of systems and services including microservice, monolithic,
Web/Queue/Worker and distributed systems architectural patterns?
Understanding of REST, GraphQL and event-driven architecture principles and
best practices and tooling (e.g. Pub/Sub, Kafka etc)? Experience with APM,
distributed tracing techniques, monitoring and logging tools like AWS
CloudWatch, EFK/ELK Stack, OpenTelemetry, Dynatrace, Datadog, New Relic
etc? A strong understanding and observed application of oAuth2, Spiffe?s, and
other Authz and Authn best practices and tooling? Strong competence in a
range of programming languages and associated frameworks e.g. Java,
JavaScript, HTML, CSS, SpringBoot, ReactJS, NextJS, TailwindCSS etc?
Knowledge of diagramming tools and methodologies (e.g. Miro, Diagrams.net,
Figjam, Mermaid.JS etc)? Strong communication and presentation skills
Country: United States
Branch | City | Location: TCS – Chicago(Naperville), IL