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This role requires deep expertise in eCommerce platforms and customer journeys, with strong hands-on capabilities in Next.js, Adobe Edge Delivery Services (EDS), React, and Progressive Web Applications (PWA).\nThe ideal candidate will provide technical leadership across the frontend commerce landscape, define scalable architecture patterns, drive engineering excellence, and lead the evolution from traditional Adobe Commerce/Magento storefronts to a modern composable architecture leveraging ACCS, EDS, API Mesh, and App Builder. 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standards and monitoring practices.\nFuture State (ACCS / EDS / Composable Commerce)\nDesign and own the target-state caching strategy as the organization transitions to:\nAdobe Commerce Cloud Service (ACCS)\nEdge Delivery Services (EDS)\nAdobe API Mesh\nAdobe App Builder\nHeadless Commerce Architecture\nDefine cache hierarchy and governance across:\nBrowser\nCDN\nEdge\nAPI Mesh\nBackend Services\nDesign and implement:\nStatic Site Generation (SSG)\nServer-Side Rendering (SSR)\nIncremental Static Regeneration (ISR)\nEdge Rendering Patterns\nAPI and GraphQL Caching\nContent Revalidation Strategies\nDefine scalable cache invalidation mechanisms supporting distributed and composable architectures.\nDrive adoption of edge-first architectures that maximize performance while minimizing infrastructure costs.\nPerformance Engineering\nOwn and continuously improve:\nCore Web Vitals\nLCP\nCLS\nINP\nTTFB\nStorefront performance\nSearch performance\nAPI latency\nCDN efficiency\nCache hit 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