Founded in 1956, Williams-Sonoma Inc. is the premier specialty retailer of high-quality products for the kitchen and home in the United States. Today, Williams-Sonoma, Inc. is one of the United States' largest e-commerce retailers with some of the best known and most beloved brands in home furnishings. Our family of brands are Williams-Sonoma, Pottery Barn, Pottery Barn Kids, Pottery Barn Teen, West Elm, Williams-Sonoma Home, Rejuvenation, GreenRow and Mark and Graham. We currently operate retail stores globally. Our products are also available to customers through our catalogs and online worldwide.

  Williams-Sonoma has established a technology center in Pune, India to enhance its global operations. The India Technology Center serves as a critical hub for innovation and focuses on developing cutting-edge solutions in areas such as e-commerce, supply chain optimization, and customer experience management. By integrating advanced technologies like artificial intelligence, data analytics, and machine learning, the India Technology Center plays a crucial role in accelerating Williams-Sonoma's growth and maintaining its competitive edge in the global market

About the Team 

At Williams-Sonoma, Inc., we build industry-leading technology solutions in the areas of OMS, PIM, Payment, Middleware, Logistics, and Care Center technologies to serve our global customers across eCommerce, Stores, and B2B channels.  The Supply Chain Systems teams within Supply Chain Engineering are responsible for the solution design, detailed technical design, development, quality assurance, performance testing, implementation, post go live validation warranty support and defining the monitoring metrics of the order management and supply chain system capabilities. 

We are a multi-location team with team members in US and international locations. We are looking to add team members, who have a true passion to leverage technology, learn, and grow in a fast-paced agile environment. We thrive on nimble decision making, small & empowered teams, customer testing and innovation. 
 

Responsibilities  

Design, build and test for capabilities across supply chain systems which are highly scalable , extensible and maintainable.  

Review and provide feedback on planned architecture, design for programs both within the OMS and Supply Chain domains as well as to other related domains. 

Collaborate with Product Management and Business partners as needed to drive results.   

Collaborate with Production Support to continuously evaluate health of the Order Management and Supply Chain Systems.   

Actively participate and lead if required production support triage calls for key production issues. Keep the leadership informed about the status in the fastest communication channel available at that point. 

Coach team members in coding and development skills. 

Facilitate Communities-of-Practice in critical technologies. 

Estimate development effort, perform resource allocation, plan implementations and system rollouts.  

Assist in continually improving the Engineering organization and making it a great place to work. 

Develop a solid understanding of critical systems and processes. 

Perform other duties as required. 
 

Criteria  

10+ years of overall experience in developing and delivering OMS and Supply Chain solutions with multiple active tracks.   

Strong project management skills with the ability to lead technical professionals.  

Ability to systematically gather relevant information from different sources to address an issue and make a prompt and insightful decision.  

Excellent organizational and leadership skills.  

Ability to build constructive business relationships and gain the trust of others.  

Demonstrated ability to anticipate, mitigate, and resolve conflicts across workgroups.  

Proven experience in developing and executing plans, meeting deadlines and operating under tight time constraints.  

Strong verbal and written communication skills.  

Demonstrated experience in making articulate and effective oral presentations to different audiences.  

Excellent interpersonal skills including such areas as team spirit, negotiation, collaboration, pitching in where needed, valuing and respecting individuals irrespective of seniority levels.  

Demonstrated ability to negotiate with and manage external vendors.  

Self-motivated and able to work independently.  

Ability to work collaboratively and influence others within a matrix environment.  

Bachelor's Of Engineering degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field, or equivalent work experience.  
  

Technical Competencies required: 

10+ years in Java 17+, Functional programming in Java, Sprint Boot, REST API Development, Kafka, WebFlux (nice to have), ELK & Kibana, Unit, Mockito, Databases, NO SQL, Cassandra, etc 

Software delivery leveraging agile practices at scale. 

Technical expertise and hands-on experience with implementing and owning enterprise level Order Management and related Supply Chain Systems. 

Hands-on experience in building and governing Microservices related to Supply Chain domain. 

Front-end technologies such as Micro Front Ends, JavaScript Frameworks like React. 

Knowhow of latest UI design trends like API-first Development, Voice UI and AI technology. 

Expertise in building highly scalable and transactional customer-facing applications. 

Good understanding of infrastructure, networks, and security with a focus on security life cycle management and cybersecurity. 

Experience with building CI/CD and DevOps solutions. 

 

Additional Engineering skillset needed in below key areas, 

Implementing, testing and operating advanced software security techniques in compliance with the Williams Sonoma Software Security standards. 

Develop non functional requirements for the new and existing capabilities in the above functional areas.

Performance Testing of UI, Microservices, Order management capabilities. 

Working closely with DBA to design relational and non relational databases 

Define scalable data persistence solution including partitioning and DB sharding. 

Proven track record of ownership and technical leadership in the latest platform infrastructure technologies and tech stacks, such as Kubernetes, Kafka, etc.