Magento Architect

Responsibilities:

• Establish and maintain subject matter expertise of omnichannel platforms and their business/information/technical architectures.
• Collaborate with business and IT leadership/influencers to understand core needs and strategic direction, and ultimately align with mission/vision/values/goals.
• Collaborate with architects and other technical thought leaders to align on principles, patterns, and standards and their communication to the broader IT audience.
• Lead or participate in architectural spikes.
• Provide analysis, expertise, perspective, and recommendations regarding potential technology acquisitions.
• Lead full-stack platform and integration design efforts relative to security, performance, scalability, resilience, extensibility, and enterprise best practices.
• Identify and drive optimization in areas of cross-domain impact, risk, performance, inability to scale, inconsistency, excessive complexity, or relevant technical debt.
• Drive adoption to and continuous improvement with DevSecOps principles (environment automation and CI/CD).

Requirements:

• 5+ years as an architect or technical lead over an enterprise-class eCommerce platform.
• Expertise in delivering experiences for multiple countries, languages, currencies, and brands.
• Expertise in responsive application development using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, and UI/MVC frameworks.
• Expertise with RESTful APIs and GraphQL.
• Expertise interacting with both relational and unstructured data repositories (ex: MySQL, MongoDB, and data lakes).
• Expertise in troubleshooting and optimising data, application, and integration performance (ex: caching, tracing, monitoring, and logging).
• Experience working with identity management and application security/authentication frameworks.
• Experience leveraging content delivery networks (ex: Cloudflare, Imperva, and Akamai).
• Experience integrating with enterprise business platforms (ex: CRM/ERP/WMS).
• Experience deploying and managing assets in cloud-hosted runtime environments using CI/CD principles and automation.
• Experience with message-based pub/sub integration architectures.
• Ability to estimate work effort/complexity/cost with predictable accuracy.
• Ability to foster collaborative relationships through clear, frequent, and credible communication using the appropriate media and levels of detail for the situation.

Preferred Skills:

• Strong preference to have worked directly with Magento 2 / Adobe Commerce.
• Experience in headless commerce. Mulesoft. Token CSS and PostCSS, Figma and Storybook, Microsoft Azure or other cloud workload hosting.