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 Merchandise 

You will be part of the Merchandising Engineering – Supply Chain group, supporting our mission of creating world of possibilities for the business by building robust systems which can scale to meet current and future business needs. We are critical in providing the master data to our ecommerce and retail businesses for various brands. Engineering team requires a highly dedicated individual who can take ownership, accountability of the domain to deliver configurations/code as needed following Williams Sonoma’s high standards for software delivery. 

Responsibilities 

• Working on STIBO STEP configuration and custom development. 

• Keeping up to date with what’s current in the STEP platform versions and provide suggestions for upgrade. 

• Setting up new integrations, add object types to the data model, Java Script business rules and workflow. 

• Understanding requirements collaborating with the product management, business teams and transform into solutions and technical design documents. 

• Knowledge of working in an agile delivery environment and proficiency in using Jira/Git. 

• Debugging business rules and any defect resolutions. 

• Evaluate the advantages for the upgrade and collaborate with the Dev Ops team to perform upgrades 

• Ensuring that solutions are scalable and extensible for future needs by running performance tests.

• Working in close coordination with the production support teams to ensure stability of the system during the peak demands. 

• Build operational readiness and alerts/monitoring to help production support teams in their day to-day activities. 

• Ensuring PHI/PII data security and compliance. 

• Recommending solutions towards stability, maintainability, and scalability of the STIBO STEP implementation at Williams Sonoma Inc 

Criteria 

• You have a BS or MS in Computer Sciences, Engineering, or related field (an equivalent combination of related education, training, and experience may be considered)

 • 5+ Years’ experience working in Retail industry 

• 5+ years’ experience working in a cross functional team 

• 5+ years of Expert technical experience in software development using Java, JavaScript, data and database design, SQL, XML, XSD, JSON, Linux and Web services 

• 5+ years of STIBO STEP systems configuration, development, architectural design and integration experience - attribute creation, business rule creation, portal development, integration endpoint configuration and workflow creation. 

• In-depth understanding of relational database (Oracle, DB2 or SQL) and ability to write/review complex operational queries. 

• Good understanding of API RESTful services 

• Capable of defining deployment process and methodologies 

• Should have good technical documentation skills. Must also be able to prepare solutions architecture documents and should be able to thoroughly review all the design documents 

• Build standards and reusable components as part of customization for new functionality on packaged solution 

• Assist the leads/architects in tool evaluations, architectural choices and POCs

• To have deep, intuitive analytical and problem-solving skills to address and resolve technical development issues in a limited timeframe 

• Ability to prioritize assignments, deal with interruptions, and meet deadlines in a fast paced and growth-oriented environment. 

• Experience to build scalable, reliable and maintainable systems 

Preferred Qualifications 

• Stibo STEP Certification is added advantage. 

• MDM/PIM experience preferred