It Senior Consultant Retail Vendor Managed

Job Title: Staff Software Engineer
Work Location & Reporting Address: San Francisco, CA; or Rocklin, CA; or San Jose, CA
Work Mode: Fully Onsite
Do you consider candidates who are willing to relocate? Yes
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Contract duration: 3 months
Target Start Date: 20 Nov 2026
Does this position require Visa independent candidates only? Yes

Interview Process: Initial interview would be Virtual/Video

Job Details:
Minimum years of experience: 8-10 years

Must Have Skills:
Stibo STEP
Oracle RMS

Nice to have skills:
Agentic AI
Javascript

Detailed Job Description:
We are seeking a highly technical, strategic, and domain-expert Lead / Staff Software Engineer to spearhead the engineering, integration, and automation of our core enterprise merchandising platforms. In this role, you will take full ownership of our master data and core merchandising ecosystem, Stibo STEP PIM (Product Information Management), Oracle Retail Suite (RMS / RMFCS) and Inventory Planning and Forecasting. Oracle Retail Merchandising System (RMS) and Product Information Management (PIM) role bridges merchandising and data governance. You will design, configure, and maintain integrated platforms to manage enterprise product lifecycles, ensuring seamless data flow across supply chain, inventory, and point-of-sale systems. This is a strictly hands-on role. You will write code, build integrations, configure platforms, and actively architect the system. Beyond traditional software engineering, this position requires demonstrated experience in Agentic AI development. You will leverage various Large Language Models (LLMs) and autonomous AI frameworks to build intelligent agents that automate code development, data enrichment, flag inventory anomalies, and streamline global supply chain workflows.

Key Responsibilities:
System Implementation & Integration: Design and implement Oracle Retail Merchandising Cloud Services (ORMCS) alongside enterprise PIM platforms (like Stibo Systems STEP). Actively write code, configure, and architect Stibo STEP (Item, Location, Vendor Portal) alongside Oracle Retail Merchandising Systems (RMS/RMFCS). Define enterprise-wide data models and product taxonomy. Engineer custom Stibo JavaScript business rules, state transitions, and approval workflows.
Data Governance & Modeling: Establish a single source of truth by aggregating, standardizing, and synchronizing product data (attributes, hierarchies, taxonomy).
Workflow Automation: Configure automated business rules and change-management workflows to review, approve, and enrich item data before it hits customer touchpoints.
Data Synchronization: Map and build data integration pipelines between RMS, PIM, ERP, and e-commerce systems to enable omnichannel journeys.
Lifecycle Management: Manage the end-to-end product lifecycle from vendor onboarding and purchase orders to pricing, inventory allocation, and fulfillment.
Agentic AI Development: Use production-grade Agentic AI frameworks to automate complex retail tasks
Required Criteria & Technical Qualifications
Education: BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
Retail Domain Expertise: 10+ years of core retail industry experience with a deep understanding of merchandise hierarchies, foundational inventory management, pricing systems, and supply chain operations.
Technical Stack Mastery: 8+ years of hands-on software development experience utilizing JavaScript, XML, XSD, JSON, Linux environments, and RESTful/SOAP Web Services.
Stibo STEP Experience: 8+ years of direct configuration and architecture experience within Stibo STEP PIM (workflows, portal development, endpoint integrations).
Oracle Retail Experience: Deep technical exposure to Oracle RMS/RMFCS database schemas, including advanced capability writing/reviewing complex operational PL/SQL queries and performance-tuning Oracle databases.
Agentic AI Proficiency: Demonstrated experience in developing autonomous AI agents. Practical experience with prompt engineering, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines.
Delivery & Agility: Proven capability to prioritize deliverables, architect reusable systems, and collaborate with Product Management teams in a fast-paced Agile environment (Jira/Git).
Cloud Environments: Familiarity with deploying, configuring, and maintaining enterprise applications in cloud and Saa.

Description:
Analyzes, designs, programs, debugs, and modifies software enhancements and/or new products used in local, networked or Internet-related computer programs. Using current programming language and technologies, writes code, completes programming, and performs testing and debugging of applications. Completes documentation and procedures for installation and maintenance.
Requirements and Design:
Authors detailed technical designs and architecture for complex projects within their domain(s) and adjacent domains
Accountable for overall quality, scalability, extensibility, and delivery of technical designs & features of their domain(s)
Accountable for the solid, reusable, modular design and code, as well as mentoring these practices to other engineers within their domain(s)
Reviews and approves technical designs authored by teams within their domain(s) and adjacent domains
Scope:
Provides technical direction and collaboration across multiple teams within a delivery function or enterprise sub-domain, powered by significant knowledge and insight
Contributes to engineering practice within their domain/delivery organization
Thoroughly understands and describes the architecture(s) across multiple related domains
Ensures their delivery organization s work is consistent with the architecture
Coding & Testing:
Excels in the languages used within their domain
Writes high-quality code with excellent modularity, reusability, test coverage
Is recognized as an expert by their team(s)
Quickly comes up with best solutions to deliver code that solves complex problems within a single domain
Participates in the analysis and decision of new programming languages or testing frameworks for new initiatives (e.g. New Mobile App)
Excels in the languages used across domains
Writes exemplary quality code with excellent test coverage
Is recognized as an expert within overall the technology organization
Delivers code that solves complex cross-domain problems in very short time frames
Research, Propose, Analyze and Decide on new programming languages or testing frameworks for new initiatives
Reviews code to ensure it is consistent with the target architecture
Creates or improves upon code review practices and tools

Experience:
Bachelor's or master's Degree in relevant field of work or equivalent work experience
Typically requires minimum of 10 + years of related experiences

Project Code: Project code for Gap SFCC project