Job Description

Key Responsibilities

Core Responsibilities (Mandatory)

- 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, ensuring that architecture decisions are scalable, maintainable, secure, and aligned with METRO standards.
- Define and maintain the technical architecture of blueprint, interface specifications, integration patterns, data flow design, and operational runbook for the solution.
- Lead the design of inbound and outbound integrations between METRO systems and RELEX, including batch/file-based flows, APIs, data transformations, monitoring, and error-handling mechanisms.
- Govern the implementation of master data, transactional data, historical data loading, order proposal flows, forecasting outputs, and replenishment-related interfaces.
- Collaborate closely with Product Owners, Business Consultants, Solution Consultants, Engineering teams, Accenture, RELEX, and METRO platform owners to translate business needs into robust technical solutions.
- Provide architectural guidance to implementation engineers, ensuring consistent engineering practices across APIs, data pipelines, cloud services, observability, deployment, and incident handling.
- Review solution designs, technical specifications, code quality, integration approaches, and deployment of readiness before major releases or go-live milestones.
- Drive technical risk identification, mitigation planning,



and decision-making for topics such as data quality, interface stability, performance, security, operational monitoring, and SaaS limitations.
- Support SIT, UAT, cutover, go-live, hypercare, and stabilization activities from a technical readiness and architecture perspective.
- Lead root-cause analysis for complex or recurring technical issues involving integrations, RELEX Connect, data processing, batch runs, monitoring, or dependencies with other METRO systems.
- Ensure proper technical documentation, knowledge transfer, and handover to Application Managed Services or continuous service teams.

Additional Responsibilities (Preferred)

- Define the target operating model for technical ownership together with Product, Platform, Support, and external partners.
- Support vendor and partner governance by coordinating technical escalations with RELEX and Accenture.
- Contribute to roadmap planning by identifying architectural improvements, technical debt, automation opportunities, and scalability needs.
- Establish integration monitoring, alerting, runbook, and service reporting standards for operational support.
- Guide the team on secure access management, role design, workplace readiness, and compliance requirements.
- Support release governance, regression testing strategy, and version upgrade readiness for the RELEX SaaS landscape.
- Mentor engineers and help grow internal capability around RELEX integrations, SaaS operations, data flows, and cloud-based engineering practices.

📌 Technical Architect - Relex (Kharadi)
🏢 METRO Global Solution Center IN
📍 Kharadi