Overview

Catalyst Brands is accelerating its digital transformation and seeks a Principal Architect to lead the strategy, architecture, and evolution of its digital commerce transaction platform across Order Management, Cart, and Checkout. This role combines platform architecture, performance strategy and design, cloud-native modernization, event-driven integration, resilience, and technical leadership to build scalable, secure, and high-performance transactional systems. Reporting to the Distinguished Architect, this leader provides architectural direction across Catalyst Brands for OMS, Cart, and Checkout platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the OMS, Cart, and Checkout architecture aligned with business goals and customer experience.

• Architect cloud native, API first, microservices based, and event driven platforms for scalability, resilience, and high availability.

• Lead discovery and current-state assessment, target-state architecture, modernization, migration, and technical roadmap for OMS, Cart, and Checkout capabilities.





• Design scalable Cart architecture supporting cart lifecycle, item management, pricing, promotions, inventory availability, concurrency, persistence, caching, and recovery.

• Architect Checkout orchestration across Cart, Pricing, Promotion, Tax, Inventory, Payment, Fraud/Risk, Customer, and Order services.

• Define OMS architecture covering order capture, order lifecycle, orchestration, fulfillment, shipment, cancellation, return, refund, and completion.

• Design reliable transactional workflows using idempotency, retries, timeouts, circuit breakers, compensation, eventual consistency, reconciliation, and graceful degradation.

• Lead event-driven integration using Kafka or equivalent streaming technologies for order, cart, payment, inventory, fulfillment, and customer events.

• Mentor engineers while establishing architecture standards, reusable patterns, observability, security, performance, and technical excell

📌 JCP-E-Commerce Principal Architect – OMS, Cart (Bengaluru)
🏢 J C Penney
📍 Bengaluru