Lead Engineer – POS Foundation
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Job Location:
Dallas, IA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
13 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Role name: Lead Engineer POS Foundation
Work site: Dallas (Onsite)
Start date: Immediate availability.
This is a Hybrid role in Irving/TX that requires 3 days in the office
Were seeking a Lead Engineer with deep technical experience in Oracle Xstore (POS & Back Office) and a passion for creating robust maintainable scalable retail store this role you will lead the design and modernization of our POS platform-driving Xstore version upgrades enhancing configuration frameworks improving observability and operational excellence ensuring global compliance and strengthening system resilience.
Youll serve as a technical leader partnering with Architecture Security Infrastructure Operations Field Support and Vendor teams to deliver high impact foundational improvements that reduce downtime improve performance and create a long-term sustainable POS ecosystem.
This position is ideal for engineers who thrive in fast paced retail environments enjoy solving complex technical challenges and can deliver high quality solutions that support thousands of store associates and customers.
Youll serve as a technical leader partnering with Architecture Security Infrastructure Operations Field Support and Vendor teams to deliver high impact foundational improvements that reduce downtime improve performance and create a long-term sustainable POS ecosystem.
This position is ideal for engineers who thrive in fast paced retail environments enjoy solving complex technical challenges and can deliver high quality solutions that support thousands of store associates and customers.
Responsibilities
Core Platform Engineering & Modernization
Lead Oracle Xstore development enhancements and lifecycle management-focusing on stability maintainability and scalability.
Drive major version upgrades patching cycles dependency modernization and technical debt reduction with structured rollout plans.
Expand and optimize configuration management: store-specific overrides tenancy handling global/local variance and dynamic configuration models.
Architect and implement core services frameworks and extension points that other teams can build on.
Compliance Reliability & Global Expansion
Implement country specific compliance requirements-fiscalization tax rules receipt specifications privacy mandates and transaction standards.
Work cross-functionally to ensure adherence to local regulations certification requirements and retail compliance frameworks.
Improve platform-level resiliency startup health and recovery processes
Observability & Operational Excellence
Enhance and standardize observability across the entire POS landscape-logs metrics traces health checks dashboards and alerting.
Champion operational efficiency by designing better troubleshooting tools diagnostics self-healing mechanisms and automated monitoring.
Lead incident response and postmortems reducing MTTR and improving fleet-wide reliability.
Collaboration & Leadership
Provide technical leadership and mentorship for engineers across POS teams.
Drive architectural discussions propose foundational improvements and establish engineering best practices.
Guide cross-team initiatives and represent the POS Foundation in design reviews rollout planning and vendor interactions.
Core Platform Engineering & Modernization
Lead Oracle Xstore development enhancements and lifecycle management-focusing on stability maintainability and scalability.
Drive major version upgrades patching cycles dependency modernization and technical debt reduction with structured rollout plans.
Expand and optimize configuration management: store-specific overrides tenancy handling global/local variance and dynamic configuration models.
Architect and implement core services frameworks and extension points that other teams can build on.
Compliance Reliability & Global Expansion
Implement country specific compliance requirements-fiscalization tax rules receipt specifications privacy mandates and transaction standards.
Work cross-functionally to ensure adherence to local regulations certification requirements and retail compliance frameworks.
Improve platform-level resiliency startup health and recovery processes
Observability & Operational Excellence
Enhance and standardize observability across the entire POS landscape-logs metrics traces health checks dashboards and alerting.
Champion operational efficiency by designing better troubleshooting tools diagnostics self-healing mechanisms and automated monitoring.
Lead incident response and postmortems reducing MTTR and improving fleet-wide reliability.
Collaboration & Leadership
Provide technical leadership and mentorship for engineers across POS teams.
Drive architectural discussions propose foundational improvements and establish engineering best practices.
Guide cross-team initiatives and represent the POS Foundation in design reviews rollout planning and vendor interactions.
Minimum Requirements:
7 years engineering experience with strong emphasis on Oracle Xstore (POS and Back Office) including customizations and environment management.
Proven experience performing Xstore upgrades patching platform migrations and architectural modernization.
Deep understanding of retail store POS operations system flows configuration frameworks and store-level constraints.
Strong proficiency in Java (Xstore) RESTful services integrations and patterns for large-scale distributed retail systems.
Experience building or evolving observability: logging pipelines telemetry standards dashboards alerting and health checks.
Demonstrated ability to lead large technical initiatives with multiple stakeholders.
Excellent communication skills and an ability to work cross-functionally with Ops Security Infrastructure and Field teams.
7 years engineering experience with strong emphasis on Oracle Xstore (POS and Back Office) including customizations and environment management.
Proven experience performing Xstore upgrades patching platform migrations and architectural modernization.
Deep understanding of retail store POS operations system flows configuration frameworks and store-level constraints.
Strong proficiency in Java (Xstore) RESTful services integrations and patterns for large-scale distributed retail systems.
Experience building or evolving observability: logging pipelines telemetry standards dashboards alerting and health checks.
Demonstrated ability to lead large technical initiatives with multiple stakeholders.
Excellent communication skills and an ability to work cross-functionally with Ops Security Infrastructure and Field teams.
Preferred Requirements:
Experience supporting international POS deployments involving fiscalization tax rules receipt formats and local compliance frameworks.
Strong understanding of store networking fundamentals deployment patterns and offline/failover strategies.
Exposure to performance tuning startup optimization service orchestration and large-scale rollout management.
Experience with automation (PowerShell Bash Python) for builds deployments and diagnostics.
Previous work modernizing legacy retail platforms or designing foundational frameworks.
Experience supporting international POS deployments involving fiscalization tax rules receipt formats and local compliance frameworks.
Strong understanding of store networking fundamentals deployment patterns and offline/failover strategies.
Exposure to performance tuning startup optimization service orchestration and large-scale rollout management.
Experience with automation (PowerShell Bash Python) for builds deployments and diagnostics.
Previous work modernizing legacy retail platforms or designing foundational frameworks.
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Cameras must be on for all virtual interviews.
AI tools are strictly prohibited during interviews or assessments.
All offers are contingent upon successful completion of a background check and ID verification.
We appreciate your understanding and cooperation as we work together to create a transparent and equitable hiring experience
