Job Description

About Advance Auto Parts
Founded in Roanoke, VA in 1932, Advance Auto Parts is a leading automotive aftermarket retail parts provider that serves both professional installer and do-it-yourself Customers. As of July 13, 2019, Advance operated 4,912 stores and 150 Worldpac branches in the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The Company also serves 1,250 independently owned CARQUEST branded stores across these locations in addition to Mexico, the Bahamas, Turks, and Caicos and the British Virgin Islands. The company has a workforce of over 70,000 knowledgeable and experienced Team Members who are proud to provide outstanding service to their Customers, Communities, and each other every day.

About Advance India Innovation Center (AIIC):
We are continually innovating and seeking to elevate the Customer experience at each of our stores. For an organization of our size and reach, today, it has become more critical than ever, to identify synergies and build shared capabilities. The Advance India Innovation Center (AIIC), located in Hyderabad, is a step in this strategic direction that enables us to access a larger talent pool, unlock operational efficiencies and increase levels of collaboration.

WHO WE ARE

Come join our Technology Team and start reimagining the future of the automotive aftermarket. We are a highly motivated tech-focused organization, excited to be in the midst of dynamic innovation and transformational change. Driven by Advance’s top-down commitment to empowering our team members, we are focused on delighting our Customers with Care and Speed, through delivery of world class technology solutions and products. We value and cultivate our culture by seeking to always be collaborative, intellectually curious, fun, open, and diverse.   You will be a key member of a growing and passionate group focused on collaborating across business and technology resources to drive forward key programs and projects building enterprise capabilities across Advance Auto Parts.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following: other duties may be assigned:

• Lead the architectural direction on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for foundational retail systems, including commerce platforms, distributed POS, edge computing, and applied AI workloads.

• Define, own, and enforce cloud architecture standards, design patterns, and best practices across multiple engineering teams to ensure scalability, security, resilience, and cost efficiency.

• Drive enterprise modernization strategies on GCP, including cloud‑native adoption, containerized platforms (GKE), event‑driven architectures, and composable services, aligned with long‑term business and technology strategy.

• Solve high‑complexity, large‑scale engineering problems, such as real‑time pricing, low‑latency APIs, globally distributed systems, and highly available platforms running on GCP.

• Act as a force multiplier through hands‑on design, coding, prototyping, and technical storytelling, influencing architecture and outcomes well beyond individual contributions.

• Write production‑quality code and automated tests, and take ownership of the technical delivery, reliability, performance, and operational health of critical systems or major domains.

• Review architecture designs and code developed by other engineers, providing actionable feedback to uphold engineering excellence, cloud best practices, and security standards.

• Lead and participate in architecture and design reviews with engineers, architects, and stakeholders, making informed decisions among available technologies and GCP‑native services.

• Mentor senior engineers, architects, and technical leads, serving as a role model and thought leader in cloud engineering, distributed systems, and GCP best practices.

• Partner closely with Architecture, Engineering, and Technology Leadership to translate strategic vision into execution with measurable engineering and business impact.

• Stay ahead of industry trends in cloud computing, retail technology, and Google Cloud innovations, proactively introducing relevant capabilities into the platform ecosystem

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, or infrastructure engineering, with at least 4–5 years working in cloud‑native environments.

• Deep expertise in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services, including but not limited to GKE, Compute Engine, Cloud Networking, IAM, Cloud Storage, Pub/Sub, Cloud SQL/Spanner, and related services.

• Strong hands‑on experience designing and building cloud‑native, distributed systems at scale.

• Proven experience with container orchestration (Kubernetes/GKE), microservices architectures, and event‑driven systems.

• Strong programming experience in one or more languages such as Java, Go, Python, or similar, including writing production‑quality code and automated tests.

• Experience defining and enforcing architecture standards, design patterns, and best practices across multiple teams.

• Demonstrated ability to resolve high‑complexity technical problems, including performance, scalability, availability, and reliability challenges.

• Solid understanding of cloud security, networking, identity, and cost optimization (FinOps) principles.

• Experience leading or heavily influencing architecture and design reviews across engineering teams.

• Strong communication skills with the ability to influence engineers, architects, and senior stakeholders.

• Proven experience mentoring senior engineers and technical leads.

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