Vg & Partners

Durham, NC, United States

Principle, Solution Architect eCommerce

This is a full-time, direct-hire position at one of our clients in the ed tech industry.

What impact will you have in this role

We need a Senior Solution Architect - eCommerce for one of our clients, who brings technical gravitas,

thought leadership and a passion for technology! Be part of developing and implementing initiatives

that improve innovation in a constantly evolving eCommerce and web content space.

We currently run a large eCommerce platform serving the full-stack, but we want to start to move

towards the next-generation of eCommerce architectures – headless, API-first, cloud-native and micro-

service based. Join a high performing team within a highly specialized technology department which

focuses on delivery and transformation!

What will you be doing day-to-day?

• Provide architectural strategy and leadership to developing and implementing initiatives that improve innovation in a constantly evolving ecommerce & web content space.
• Champion and define architecture for eCommerce & CMS in a Microservices-based, API-first, Cloud-native, and Headless architecture.
• Collaborate with senior leaders in business and technology to define MVP scope for various initiatives and design solutions that align with enterprise technology strategy.
• Lead the solution team, ensuring that roadmap items are assessed, and high-level architecture deliverables produced in time for handover to the engineering teams.
• Evaluate emerging technology for use across multiple domains, which include RFPs, vendor evaluations and creation of Architecture Design Proposals.
• Ensure that global solutions adhere to non-functional and compliance requirements at the local markets.
• Collaborate with Product Owners and other core platforms to drive product vision, manage scope and expectations.
• Have responsibility for the quality of the technical solution delivered by project teams.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring of technical leads and development teams.
• Have a strong focus on the high quality throughout the entire process, working closely with the Quality Assurance stream
• Collaborate with Enterprise Architects for aspects related to integration with other systems
• Architect Digital Consumer experiences based on a foundation of enterprise technologies that define web content and eCommerce strategy.

Requirements

What skills are required to be successful in this role?

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 6+ years of experience in software development, including a minimum of 3 years of experience in architecting solutions of customer facing web applications.
• Must have strong verbal and written communication skills including the ability to facilitate interactive sessions with business and technology teams.
• Deep understanding of object-oriented programming, relational databases, and complex integration landscapes.
• Familiarity with API-first Headless architecture implementation in eCommerce or Web Content space will be desirable.
• Familiar with AWS or equivalent cloud platform, including auto-scaling and global deployments of application architecture.
• Prior work experience in eCommerce or Web content management tools like SAP Commerce Cloud / Hybris, Oracle, Magento or AEM would be an addedadvantage.
• Experience coaching and mentoring technology talent.

• 4 months parental leave
• 6 weeks of PTO
• Tuition reimbursement and continuous education