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Job Summary:
Cardinal Integrated Technologies Inc is a footwear manufacturer seeking an Ecommerce Solution Architect to lead large-scale digital transformation initiatives. This role involves collaborating with various stakeholders to architect innovative eCommerce solutions that drive user engagement and meet key business objectives.
Responsibilities:
• Partner and build trusted relationships with key stakeholders, Digital Product Owners, Digital Engineering, Commercial Leaders, Consumer Marketing leaders, Brand Marketing leaders, IT Leaders, and Senior Leadership Team members to drive and manage the technology planning, solutioning and implementation for large, strategic, complex multi-system projects.
• Work with stakeholders to understand their business objectives and the architect technology solutions across multiple systems to bring them to life.
• Drive scope definition, requirements analysis, functional and technical design, application build, product configuration, unit testing, and production deployment. Identify potential issues between system capabilities and the project specifications; and propose new solutions to work around these limitations. Ensure that global solutions adhere to nonfunctional and compliance requirements at the local markets
• Provide technical leadership to all parties and ensure uniform enterprise-wide technology standards are defined and adhered to. Collaborate closely with front-end development, backend development, and architecture teams.
• Write functional, technical and architecture specifications and diagrams for feature enhancements, integrations, and solutions. Demonstrate leadership ability to back decisions with research and the 'why, and articulate several options, the pros and cons for each, and a recommendation. Strong focus on the high quality throughout the entire process.
• Provide technical expertise and ownership in the diagnosis and resolution of an issue, including the determination and provision of workaround solution or escalation to eCommerce leadership.
• Influence the need to put the user at the center of everything we do, advocate for them, protect their data (a.k.a. security). Ensure that all PII data is handled in a secure manner and that Architectural solutions account for threat vectors.
• Develop and maintain a deep understanding and proficiency of new and existing technologies within the full in the eCommerce technology stack [Salesforce Commerce, Marketing and Service Clouds] to deliver a clear point of view on how core solutions should be designed and leveraged across the environment. Partner with external vendor partners to understand and evaluate new capabilities to be leveraged to enhance the consumer experience and drive accretive ecommerce revenue growth.
• Partner with other functional leaders within the Experience Team, including QA Leads and Product Owners, to ensure seamless handoffs throughout the entire project development process.
• Through an eye of continuous improvement will identify gaps and opportunities to improve systems and processes that drive growth, create efficiencies and deliver best-in-class customer experiences.
• Ensure that DTC technology and development best practices are fully integrated into new projects, including user experience standards, accessibility, performance optimization, localization, scalability, device compatibility, and more.
• Performs duties consistent with the company's AAP/EEO goals and policies.
• Performs other duties as required/assigned by manager.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, or related study or equivalent work experience.
• 10 + years of experience combined development and architecture experience.
• Deep technical experience with B2C e-commerce platforms, websites, and applications.
• Strong understanding of network architecture, application development technologies, RDBMSs, and MVC architecture patterns.
• Experience architecting API layers and web services.
• Experience developing and deploying micro-components, microservices and in the cloud.
• Experience with micro-services, CDNs, data caches and stores.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills required.
• Ability to work across organizational boundaries and promote and influence direction on how to best solve business and technical problems.
Preferred:
• Salesforce specific experience in Commerce Cloud, Marketing Cloud and Service Cloud.
• Experience in Apex, Lightning Aura and Lightning Web Components development, Flows and Triggers.
• Experience creating custom SF cartridges and applications.
• Packaging and bundling technologies, CI/CD pipeline and deployment strategies.
• Experience with data lakes, CDPs.
• Agile development methodology experience.
• Experience in global multi-branded B2C environments.
Company:
We are a company of IT professionals who passionately believe that good quality products & services are delivered by great resources. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in Monmouth Junction, USA, with a team of 201-500 employees. The company is currently Growth Stage.