Job Description

Role Mission:

The Principal CRM Engineer defines and evolves the architecture of StarHubs core Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Order Management (OM) platforms that power customer onboarding, sales journeys, and fulfilment for the Consumer Business.

The role focuses on building a scalable, resilient, and future-ready CRM/OM platform, ensuring seamless end-to-end customerexperiencesand enabling rapid product innovation. Operating within a DevOps model, the Principal CRM Engineer drives platform modernization, architectural standardization, and system-wide reliability, while guiding engineering teams toeliminatesystemic issues and scale the platform sustainably.

Responsibilities:

Define and own the end-to-end architecture of CRM/OM platforms across Customer Management, Product Catalogue, Campaigns, Order Management, and Revenue/Billing integration

Establish architectural principles and standards for microservices, API design, workflow orchestration, and data management across CRM/OM domains

Design andoptimizeworkflow orchestration strategies for order lifecycle processes, ensuring scalability and fault tolerance

Drive platform scalability and performance improvements byidentifyingsystem bottlenecks across APIs, databases, and workflows

Define and govern data architecture, ensuring consistency, integrity, and efficient data flow across CRM, provisioning, and billing systems

Establish API and integration standards, including versioning, idempotency, and reliability patterns for internal and external system integrations

Lead platform modernization initiatives, including migration from legacy CRM systems to cloud-nativeCRM-based architecture

Reduce technical debt and system complexity by driving modularization, decoupling, and standardization across services

Define and implement observability and reliability strategies across the platform, ensuring proactive monitoring, alerting, and performance optimization

Collaborate with DevOps and platform teams to design scalable cloud-native solutions using Kubernetes (EKS), CI/CD pipelines, and Infrastructure as Code

Act as the technical authority for design decisions, conducting architecture reviews and ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture and business objectives

Mentor CRM Engineers on system design, architectural thinking, and advanced debugging techniques

Influence cross-functional teams and stakeholders to adopt consistent engineering standards and best practices

Collaborate with Product Owners, QA, DevOps, and vendors to ensure seamless integration and delivery of end-to-end customer journeys

Qualifications

10+ years ofprofessional software engineering experience with a strong emphasis on system architecture and largescale distributed systems

Demonstrated ability todesign, evolve, andoperateenterprisecriticalplatforms, particularly withinCRM,OM,BSS, or comparable domains

Deep architecturalexpertiseacross:

Microservices and distributed system design

API design, integration patterns, and service contracts

Workflow driven andorchestration-basedsystems

Data architecture,modelling, and database performance optimization

Stronghands-ontechnical experience with:

Java, Spring Boot, and RESTful APIdesign/development

PostgreSQL and/or Oracle, including query optimization and performance tuning

Kubernetes based platforms and cloud environments (AWS preferred)

Proven experience working in telecom BSS/OSS environments, including CRM, billing, and order management systems

Establishedtrack recordof leading platform modernization, large scale refactoring, and transformation initiatives in complex enterprise environments

Preferred Certifications

Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)

AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate or Professional)