Principal Architect

Overview

Catalyst Brands is accelerating its digital transformation and seeks a Principal Architect to lead the strategy, architecture, and evolution of its digital commerce discovery platform across Browse, Search, CMS, and Product Catalog. This role required design, cloud-native modernization, event-driven integration, and technical leadership to build scalable, secure, resilient, and high-performance digital commerce capabilities. Reporting to the Distinguished Architect, this leader provides architectural direction across Catalyst Brands for Browse, Search, CMS, and Catalog platforms.

Key Responsibilities

· Define and evolve the Browse, Search, CMS, and Product Catalog architecture aligned with business and customer experience goals.

· 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 Browse, Search, CMS, and Catalog capabilities.

· Design scalable Search architecture including indexing, relevance, autocomplete, faceting, filtering, ranking, search APIs, and high-volume query processing.

· Define Product Catalog architecture covering product, SKU, category, attribute, variant, ingestion, synchronization, data quality, and downstream propagation.

· Architect CMS integration and content delivery patterns including headless APIs, content models, publishing, caching, CDN, and integration with Browse experiences.

· Define Browse architecture including category navigation, facets, filters, sorting, pagination, merchandising, API/BFF aggregation, caching, and graceful degradation.

· Lead event-driven integration using Kafka or equivalent streaming technologies for catalog, search-index, content, and platform data synchronization.





· Mentor engineers while establishing architecture standards, reusable patterns, observability, security, performance, and technical excellence.

Success Metrics

· Measurable improvements in Browse and Search latency, availability, scalability, and customer experience.

· Improved catalog freshness, search indexing reliability, content delivery performance, and operational observability.

· Standardized API, event, data, and architecture patterns drive consistency, efficiency, resilience, and faster delivery.

Qualifications

· Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field

· 15 or more years of experience in software, cloud, or platform architecture leadership roles.

· Expertise in distributed, microservices based digital commerce systems on AWS, with strong Java and Spring Boot experience.

· Robust proficiency in Browse, Search, CMS, Product Catalog, API/BFF architecture, Kafka or equivalent streaming, Kubernetes, containers, CI/CD, and cloud-native platforms.

· Proven experience designing and governing high performance, high traffic customer-facing digital commerce platforms.

· Experience with Search technologies such as OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, Solr, or equivalent, including indexing, relevance, faceting, and performance optimization.

· Familiarity with cloud networking, security, observability, caching/CDN, data synchronization, event-driven architecture, and cost optimization best practices.

About the Role

This is a high impact leadership opportunity for a visionary architect defining the next generation of Catalyst Brands digital commerce discovery platform. The Principal Architect will play a pivotal role in shaping Catalyst Brands digital future by delivering secure, scalable, resilient, and high-performance Browse, Search, CMS, and Product Catalog capabilities that enable exceptional customer experiences and support continued commerce growth.

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