Akeneo Developer

About the Role

Akeneo PIM

What You’ll Do

• Own integration design & build:

  Translate requirements into technical designs, sequence diagrams, data models, and mappings between Akeneo and target systems.

• Implement APIs & data pipelines:

  Build and maintain integrations using REST/GraphQL APIs, webhooks, queues, ETL/iPaaS, and batch jobs (CSV/JSON/XML/EDI).

• ERP Akeneo:

  Product/article master, variants, pricing, inventory, packaging, and classification sync (e.g., SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics).

• E-Commerce Akeneo:

  Catalog, attributes/families, media/assets, categories, SEO fields, and publishing workflows (e.g., Adobe Commerce/Magento, Shopify, BigCommerce, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, commercetools).

• Extended integrations:

• DAM

  (e.g., Bynder, Cloudinary, S3) for asset linking, renditions, and transformations.

• CPQ

  (e.g., Salesforce CPQ) for configurable products and rules.

• CRM

  (e.g., Salesforce, MS Dynamics) for enrichment handoffs and governance.

• BI/Analytics

  (e.g., Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, Power BI, Tableau) for PIM quality metrics and operational dashboards.

• Akeneo expertise:

  Set up attribute groups, families, reference entities, asset families, locales/channels, completeness, rules, and permissions.

• Data quality & governance:

  Implement validation, deduplication, translation/localization flows, taxonomy/GS1 alignment, and error handling/reconciliation.

• Performance, scale, and resilience:

  Tune jobs, parallelize loads, manage retries/back-pressure, and monitor SLAs.

• DevEx & reliability:

  Unit/integration tests, CI/CD, secrets management, observability (logs/metrics/traces), and documentation/runbooks.

• Client collaboration:

  Participate in discovery, demos, technical workshops, UAT support, hypercare, and handover to Managed Services.

• Security & compliance:

  Apply least-privilege, OAuth2/JWT, PII handling, and auditability standards.

Tech Stack You’ll Use

• Akeneo PIM

  (CE/EE),

  PHP/Symfony

  (bundles, events, console commands), Akeneo API & webhooks

• APIs & Messaging:

  REST/GraphQL, OAuth2/JWT, webhooks,

  RabbitMQ/Kafka

  , cron/schedulers

• ETL/iPaaS:

  One or more of

  Boomi, MuleSoft, Celigo, Workato, Tibco, Azure Data Factory, AWS Glue

• Data Formats & Stores:

  JSON, CSV, XML, EDI; SQL/NoSQL; object storage (S3/GCS/Azure)

• Cloud & DevOps:

  AWS/Azure/GCP, Docker/K8s, Git, CI/CD (GitHub Actions/GitLab), Terraform (nice to have)

• Observability:

  CloudWatch/Logstash/ELK/OpenTelemetry, Sentry/New Relic/Datadog

What You Bring

• 4-8+ years

  of integration engineering (at least

  2+ years with Akeneo

  or another enterprise PIM).
• Strong

  PHP/Symfony

  skills (or proven ability to pick up Akeneo’s Symfony ecosystem quickly).
• Demonstrated experience integrating with

  ERP

  (SAP/Oracle/Dynamics) and

  E-Commerce

  (Magento/Adobe, Shopify, SFCC, BigCommerce, commercetools).
• Comfortable with

  data modeling

  for PIM: attributes, families, variants, reference entities, asset management, channels/locales, completeness.
• Solid understanding of

  product taxonomy

  , GS1 standards, localization/translation workflows, and SEO attributes.
• Hands-on with

  queues

  ,

  idempotent

  job design, error handling, and reconciliation patterns.
• Knowledge of

  security best practices

  (OAuth2, JWT, secrets, network policies).
• Excellent communicator who can explain complex concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent experience.

Nice to Have

• Akeneo certifications

  (Integrator, Developer).
• Experience with

  commercetools

  ,

  SFCC

  , or

  Magento 2

  module development.
• Experience with

  Snowflake/BigQuery

  and data contracts for analytics.
• Familiarity with

  translation management

  (e.g., Smartling, Transifex) and GenAI-assisted enrichment workflows.
• Exposure to

  CPQ

  rules/attributes and

  PLM/MDM

  integrations.
• Prior consulting/agency experience and customer-facing delivery.

Key Outcomes (First 90 Days)

• Deliver a production-grade

  ERP Akeneo

  product master sync with monitoring and runbooks.
• Stand up a

  storefront publishing

  pipeline to at least one e-commerce platform.
• Establish reusable

  mappings/templates

  (attributes, categories, media) and a

  data quality dashboard

  .
• Contribute to an internal

  Akeneo integration accelerator

  (connectors, scripts, or iPaaS recipes).