Hiring Enterprise Architect

Role and Responsibilities:

• Act as SPOC for the Architecture/Solution for end-to-end ecommerce ecosystem
• Develop and maintain a comprehensive enterprise architecture strategy for our applications involved in e-commerce ecosystem, ensuring alignment with business goals and market trends.
• Define and enforce architectural principles, guidelines, and standards that support scalable, secure, and efficient solutions.
• Drive innovation by identifying opportunities for process improvements, automation, and the adoption of new technologies like AI, machine learning, and personalization engines
• Communicate architectural strategies and decisions to stakeholders at all levels, ensuring alignment and buy-in
• Ensure the e-commerce architecture supports high availability, performance, and scalability to meet business demands, especially during peak shopping periods
• Implement best practices for security and data privacy, ensuring compliance with relevant regulations (e.g., GDPR, CCPA)
• Create and maintain detailed architectural documentation, including system diagrams, data flow diagrams, and technical specifications.
• Establish and enforce governance processes for architectural changes, ensuring consistency and adherence to standards
• Participate in scoping, estimating efforts etc.
• Contribute to white papers, blogs
• Contribute to Pres-Sales Activities

Required Skills:

• 18+ Overall experience with 5+ enterprise architect or similar role in an e-commerce or digital experience environment
• In-depth knowledge of e-commerce platforms (e.g., Salesforce Commerce Cloud, Kibo, Shopify, commercetools, Custom implementations), integrations and related technologies.
• Strong exposure working with platforms involved in ecommerce like Product Information Management, Content management System, Order Management, Warehouse Management, Search Platform, Inventory Management, Integration Platforms, Analytics, ERP, PLM etc.
• Experience with web technologies, including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and modern front-end frameworks (e.g., React, Angular, Next.js).
• Strong understanding of backend technologies, microservices architecture, cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud), and API integration.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and adapt to changing priorities.
• Certification in enterprise architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF).
• Create and maintain detailed architectural documentation, including system diagrams, data flow diagrams, and technical specifications
• Very strong experience in designing medium to large enterprise applications • Should have knowledge on messaging systems (Kafka, MQ, Rabbit MQ, JMS etc.),
• Exposure to Authentication, Authorization, SSO using JWT, OAuth, SAML is required.
• Experience in Pre-Sales - defining end to end solution architecture covering technical, deployment architectures and non-functional & performance aspects and drive proposals
• Experience in Retail - Ecommerce domain is mandatory
• Very strong implementation experience using Test Driven Development, Domain Driven Design, and clean code principles
• Should have client facing experience and having worked in matrix organization & onsite-offshore model
• Experience in using estimation techniques like (Use-case, FP, Story points).
• Experience in creating presentations, demos to customers and internal management team.
• Should have excellent verbal, written communication, and presentation skills.