Senior Solutions Architect IIActive

Instacart
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The opportunity

Instacart’s Enterprise Solutions – Connected Stores team is building the next generation of in-store experiences, bridging physical retail with digital capabilities through cutting-edge hardware, software, and AI. We partner with enterprise retailers to deliver seamless,…

What you'll do

  • Own end-to-end solution architecture from discovery through launch, including: requirements, systems design, integration strategy, and production readiness for enterprise retail partners.

  • Design and document robust integration patterns across RESTful APIs,: webhooks, and middleware, ensuring performance, reliability, security, and observability.

  • Serve as the primary technical liaison to partner engineering teams while: driving alignment with Instacart Product, Engineering, Design, Security, and Technical Program Management.

  • Create high-quality technical artifacts—including sequence diagrams, data: models, interface contracts, and runbooks—and lead design reviews to achieve stakeholder sign-off.

  • Prototype and script proofs of concept, data validations, and tooling using: SQL and a scripting language to accelerate delivery and de-risk integrations.

  • Develop reusable templates, accelerators, and documentation that scale: Connected Stores implementations across multiple enterprise partners.

What they're looking for

  • Experience in client-facing or consulting roles working with enterprise: retailers or large-scale technology partners.
  • Background with retail systems and data flows: POS, inventory, catalog, pricing/promotions, order management, loyalty/identity, and payments.
  • Familiarity with in-store physical AI, computer vision devices, connected: carts, kiosks, or retail IoT ecosystems.
  • Knowledge of public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and modern delivery: practices (containers, CI/CD, infrastructure as code).
  • Expertise with API design and debugging tools and standards (OpenAPI/Swagger,: Postman, cURL) and observability stacks (logging, metrics, tracing).
  • Experience with integration platforms and gateways (e.g., Apigee, Kong, AWS: API Gateway, MuleSoft) and event streaming (e.g., Kafka, Pub/Sub).
  • Understanding of security and compliance for integrations, including OAuth: 2.0, JWT, data encryption, and best practices for handling PII/PCI.
  • Ability to produce clear architecture artifacts (sequence/state diagrams,: ERDs) using tools like Lucidchart or draw.io.