Architect – Commerce + ESL

We are seeking an experienced Commerce and Enterprise Service Layer (ESL) Architect to lead the design and governance of scalable digital commerce and enterprise integration solutions. This role will be responsible for owning the architecture across commerce platforms, APIs, microservices, ESL, and enterprise backend systems, ensuring that all solutions meet stringent requirements for security, scalability, resilience, and performance.

Key Responsibilities

- Define the end-to-end solution architecture for Commerce and ESL platforms.
- Design integrations between Commerce platforms and systems such as ERP, CRM, OMS, PIM, CMS, payments, inventory, and fulfillment.
- Establish API, microservices, event-driven, and messaging integration patterns.
- Set architecture standards for API security, authentication, error handling, logging, monitoring, and performance.
- Provide technical direction to development teams across Commerce, ESL, backend, frontend, and integration domains.
- Ensure solutions meet scalability, availability, security, resilience, and performance requirements.
- Review solution designs to ensure alignment with enterprise architecture standards.
- Identify technical risks, dependencies, and architectural constraints.
- Collaborate closely with business, product, engineering, security, infrastructure, and enterprise architecture teams.
- Maintain solution architecture diagrams, integration specifications, API standards, and comprehensive technical documentation.

Required Qualifications

- Proven experience as a Solution Architect or Technical Architect specializing in digital Commerce and enterprise integration solutions.
- Strong expertise in eCommerce and Digital Commerce architecture.
- In-depth knowledge of Enterprise Service Layer (ESL) architecture.
- Hands-on experience with REST APIs, microservices, and API management platforms.
- Solid understanding of synchronous, asynchronous, messaging, and event-driven integration patterns.
- Demonstrated experience integrating Commerce platforms with enterprise and backend systems.
- Strong knowledge of API security protocols, including OAuth 2.0, OIDC, JWT, authentication, and authorization mechanisms.
- Deep understanding of scalability, high availability, resilience, caching, and performance optimization.
- Experience defining and governing architecture and integration standards.
- Excellent technical leadership, stakeholder management, and solution design capabilities.

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience with Commerce platforms such as Adobe Commerce/Magento, SAP Commerce Cloud, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, or commercetools.
- Familiarity with API management and integration platforms like Apigee, Azure API Management, Kong, or MuleSoft.
- Knowledge of Kafka or other event-streaming and messaging technologies.
- Development experience with Java/Spring Boot, .NET, or Node.js.
- Exposure to cloud platforms including Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud.
- Understanding of Headless Commerce, Composable Commerce, and MACH architecture principles.
- Experience with containerization and orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes.
- Awareness of CI/CD pipelines and DevSecOps practices.
- Experience with observability and application monitoring solutions.

This role offers the opportunity to shape the future of digital commerce architecture within a dynamic and collaborative environment, working alongside cross-functional teams to deliver robust, secure, and scalable solutions.