E-commerce Architect, REMOTE

Company: Perficient
Location: Washington
Posted on: January 16, 2022

Job Description:

Overview

Perficient currently has a career opportunity for a Technical Architect with E-commerce expertise, for our national Commerce Practice. This role can be remote with the continental US.

The E-commerce Technical Architect provides technology direction, ensures project implementation compliance, and utilizes technology research to innovate, integrate, and manage technology solutions. As an Architect, you will significantly contribute to identifying best-fit architectural solutions for one or more projects; you will collaborate with some of the best talent in the industry to create and implement innovative high quality solutions, participate in Sales and various pursuits focused on our clients' business needs. This role is considered part of the Business Unit Leadership team and may mentor Junior Architects and/or development team members.

Our national Commerce Practice team is comprised of passionate and capable strategists, architects, project managers, business analysts, developers, and infrastructure specialists who specialize in the designing and implementing of industry leading eCommerce platforms. We deliver on the promise of a unified commerce experience, through strategic discussion aligned to business needs. We use an agnostic approach with a deep portfolio of options to address all levels of digital maturity. We are experts on the leading Commerce and Order Management platforms including HCL Commerce, SAP Hybris, Magento, Optimizely, Znode, InRiver PIM, and IBM Sterling OMS.

Responsibilities

• Provide technology architectural assessments, strategies, design, and roadmaps for technical architecture of eCommerce platform solutions.
• Support pre-sales activities including estimations, high level designs, and participate in SOW creation.
• Work with application developers, users, operational leadership, and subject matter experts to understand current and future operational data analysis goals.
• Recommend modern technology stacks to meet those goals and help engineering teams migrate towards their use.
• Collaborate with the customer's operations and technology leadership on the future analytic goals of the organization, and design a technical architecture to meet those goals.
• Participate in configuring the architecture, and advise engineering teams on its efficient use.
• Lead a work stream or act as a team lead and manage technical components of the work plan/project.
• Utilize analytical, process, and/or technical skills to meet project objectives and deliverables that are self-directed and within project scope.
• Provide performance testing and tuning support.
  Qualifications
  
  • 7+ years of experience in technology consulting, enterprise and solutions architecture design, architectural frameworks, and cloud technologies implementation with E-commerce platforms.
  • Experience in one or more enterprise E-commerce solutions such as Optimizely, Salsify, SF CC, Znode or HCL.
  • Experience with the Microservices, headless Commerce, API integration preferred.
  • Experience with working on AWS and/or Azure is a plus
  • Experience in defining new architectures and ability to drive an independent project from an architectural stand point.
  • Experience in complete project life cycle activities on development and maintenance projects.
  • Knowledge and experience in developing software using agile methodologies.
  • Proven track record of technical leadership roles delivering solutions within defined timeframes.
  • Skilled in building relationships with clients and in practice development activities.
  • Demonstrated success in performing work and managing complex and/or large consulting projects.
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills; Ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical staff.
  • Must be open to travel.
    Preferred Skills And Education
    
    • Experience working with a globally distributed team and managing off-shore teams.
    • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
      Perficient full-time employees receive complete and competitive benefits. We offer a collaborative work environment, competitive compensation, generous work/life opportunities and an outstanding benefits package that includes paid time off plus holidays. In addition, all colleagues are eligible for a number of rewards and recognition programs including billable bonus opportunities. Encouraging a healthy work/life balance and providing our colleagues great benefits are just part of what makes Perficient a great place to work.
      
      More About Perficient
      
      Perficient is the leading digital transformation consulting firm serving Global 2000 and enterprise customers throughout North America. With unparalleled information technology, management consulting and creative capabilities, Perficient and its Perficient Digital agency deliver vision, execution and value with outstanding digital experience, business optimization and industry solutions.
      
      Our work enables clients to improve productivity and competitiveness; grow and strengthen relationships with customers, suppliers and partners; and reduce costs. Perficient's professionals serve clients from a network of offices across North America and offshore locations in India and China. Traded on the Nasdaq Global Select Market, Perficient is a member of the Russell 2000 index and the S&P SmallCap 600 index.
      
      Perficient is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national, origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
      
      Disclaimer: The above statements are not intended to be a complete statement of job content, rather to act as a guide to the essential functions performed by the employee assigned to this classification. Management retains the discretion to add or change the duties of the position at any time.
      
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