Senior Backend Engineer

Job Role : IBM Sterling OMS Solution Architect

Experience : 15+ Years

Notice period : Immediate

Location : Trivandrum / Kochi / Remote

Note : OMS & Retail domain Experience is mandatory

Job Description :

As a Software Architect – IBM Sterling OMS, you will lead the design and delivery of high-quality enterprise-class OMS solutions and play a crucial role in guiding teams through architecture, implementation, and optimization of the Sterling platform

Mandatory Skills :

IBM Sterling OMS Architecture, Retail Domain Experience, Advanced Java, Sterling OMS Configuration & Customization, APIs (REST/WebServices), DB2/Oracle, XML/JSON, MQ Integration.

Responsibilities include :

• Define solution architecture and detailed technical design for IBM Sterling OMS initiatives across programs and projects.
• Lead and mentor development teams in designing, coding, customizing, and deploying Sterling OMS solutions.
• Translate functional requirements into scalable, resilient, and maintainable Sterling OMS architecture.
• Oversee end-to-end development for IBM OMS including design, development, deployment, debugging, and documentation.
• Ensure all OMS enhancements meet performance, scalability, and security standards aligned with stakeholder KPIs.
• Manage and evaluate technical requirements related to Sterling OMS (v10.0) including configurations, APIs, workflows, and database extensions.
• Estimate effort, cost, dependencies, and timelines for new features and architectural components.
• Provide architectural governance and conduct design and code reviews to ensure consistency with best practices.
• Lead integration architecture involving OMS and external systems (WMS, ERP, Commerce, TMS, Inventory).
• Guide OMS implementation efforts (across SL, BT, or custom OMS setups) and ensure the adoption of best practices.
• Collaborate with cross-functional IT teams across logistics, order orchestration, and fulfillment applications.]
• Drive secure, scalable, cloud-ready OMS development aligned with Agile methodologies.
• Contribute to continuous improvements through automation, reusable components, and standardized technical artifacts.

Primary Skills :

Experience :

• 15+ years of IT experience, including significant hands-on architecture and solution design experience with IBM Sterling OMS.
• Strong background in Java development at an advanced level.

Technical Skills :

• Advanced expertise in IBM Sterling Order Management System including configurations, customizations, workflows, SDF, DB extensions, and APIs.
• Strong experience with DB2 and Oracle databases, including performance tuning, indexing, and complex queries.
• Proficiency in XML, JSON, and integration patterns involving MQ, WebServices, and REST APIs.
• Experience with Linux/Unix environments (Intermediate/Advanced).
• Hands-on exposure to GCP (GKE, Artifact Registry, Compute Engine) or equivalent cloud platforms.
• Strong knowledge of Git and modern DevOps practices.

Secondary Skills :

• Experience integrating Sterling OMS with MQ, WebServices, and cloud-native components.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes and Docker for OMS deployment and troubleshooting.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar tools.
• Strong soft skills : Self-learning, collaboration, planning, and organization. 

Job Responsibilities:

* Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Java code

* Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the applications

* Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems

* Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization

* Prepare the technical design of complex technology components

Mandatory Skills:

* Proficient in Java (JDK 1.7) or above JDK 8 preferable, with a good knowledge of its ecosystems with a knack for writing clean, readable Java code, writing reusable Java libraries along with knowledge of concurrency patterns in Java

* Solid understanding of object-oriented programming along with various design and architectural patterns

* Hands on experience with Spring, Spring Boot, JUnit

* Familiarity with concepts of MVC, Microservices, RESTful

• Analyze highly complex business requirements;
• generate technical specifications to design or redesign complex software components and applications;
• Acts as an expert technical resource for modeling, simulation and analysis efforts;
• Adapt to change quickly and adjust work accordingly in a positive manner;
• Be flexible and thrive in an evolving environment;
• Individual contributor to build the application for e-commerce platform;
• Assures quality, security and compliance requirements are met for supported areas;
• Working in cloud data stores to include S3, DynamoDB and/or Amazon RDS;
• Perform test automation in a test-driven development environment;
• Implement DevOps concepts, tools and continuous delivery pipelines - Bamboo, Jenkins, Maven, Bitbucket, Jira, etc;
• Implement instrumentation to gather business-specific metrics around consumer usage patterns;

Minimum 5-7years of professional experience building web-applications
Strong experience in backend development
Strong experience in AI/Machine Learning development, Data Analysis/Processing
Experience in creating robust and secure REST APIs
Hands-on exposure to RDBMS like PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB etc.
Proficiency with one or more programming languages from Java, Python, Node/JavaScript
Solid familiarity working with cloud and related technologies, AWS, GCP and Azure cloud environments
Ability to do very quick research in unknown technologies
Startup mindset, comfort with chaos and multi-tasking ability
Strong programming fundamentals in Data Structures, Algorithms
An eye for writing performance optimum code in any tool set

• Having experience in Hospitality/Travel/Internet/Online/Start-up/IT/Logistic/Courier/Cargo/ Transportation would be preferable.

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