Senior Architect - Logistics Systems

Williams-Sonoma India Technology Center Job Description Role Title Senior Architect - Logistics Systems Location Pune / Hyderabad, India (Hybrid) About Williams-Sonoma India Technology Center Williams-Sonoma India Technology Center is the technology hub for Williams-Sonoma, Inc., supporting global digital commerce, supply chain, enterprise platforms, and customer experiences across our portfolio of brands. The India Technology Center partners closely with global business and engineering teams to build scalable, resilient, and innovative platforms that serve millions of customers worldwide.

The Logistics Technology team builds and supports the platforms that move products across the WSI supply chain, from distribution center operations and warehouse management to transportation and delivery for brands including Williams Sonoma, Pottery Barn, West Elm, and Rejuvenation. The team partners with Supply Chain, Distribution Center operations, product teams, delivery teams, and third-party vendors to deliver scalable solutions that keep fulfillment fast, accurate, and cost-effective. This is a hands-on, high-ownership team where architects and engineers work end to end: setting technical direction, designing systems, integrating with WMS and TMS platforms, and applying automation and AI to improve how the distribution network runs every day.

The Senior Architect will own the Logistics systems domain and provide broad technical leadership across Warehouse Management, Warehouse Execution, Warehouse Control, and Transportation Management platforms. The role sets architectural direction, defines and governs technical standards, and translates large programs and strategic initiatives into viable, scalable, and maintainable solutions. The role requires a senior technical leader who can operate as a domain subject matter expert, influence product and engineering direction, partner effectively with business stakeholders and vendors such as Manhattan Associates, and mentor architects and engineering practitioners across the enterprise.

Set technical direction for the Logistics systems domain and ensure project and program designs align with enterprise principles, standards, and constraints. Create viable solution approaches for complex programs, decompose them into logical components, and define responsibilities, integration points, and dependencies across layers and systems. Propose and evaluate alternative designs, clearly articulate trade-offs, and make sound architectural decisions across competing approaches. Assess design impact across solution components and adjacent domain systems, including implications over a three-to-five-year horizon. Define and own enterprise integration architecture across WMS, WES, WCS, OMS, RMS, ERP, and TMS landscapes, including integration boundaries, canonical data flows, and system-of-record ownership. Decide the right integration style for each interaction, including synchronous, asynchronous, event-driven, and batch patterns, and document rationale, failure modes, idempotency, and recovery expectations. Design and govern reusable integration patterns, templates, service contracts, and reference implementations that delivery teams can adopt without rework. Define and advise on enterprise API standards, including versioning, backward compatibility, deprecation policy, governance, and security. Lead performance engineering for high-throughput and low-latency logistics workloads, including performance test strategy, capacity planning, bottleneck analysis, and ongoing optimization. Apply product thinking to platform and integration decisions by prioritizing capabilities based on user outcomes, business value, consumer needs, and roadmap alignment. Partner with product management and business teams to understand strategic initiatives and help decompose programs into deliverable projects. Initiate, lead, and contribute to creation and review of organizational