SFCC Architect

Location: Pune

Employment Type: full-time

Job Details

Position: Technical Architect – SFCC

Experience: 12-14 yrs

Job Description:

We are seeking a highly experienced Technical Architect – SFCC to lead the design, development, and optimization of our Salesforce Commerce Cloud eCommerce platform. This role will be instrumental in defining the architectural vision and engineering standards for digital commerce solutions that power scalable, secure, and high-performing online shopping experiences. As the senior technical leader in this space, you will collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to shape the architecture for front-end experiences, backend integrations, and future-ready enhancements across the digital commerce stack.

Mandatory Skills:

• Lead the design, development, and optimization of Salesforce Commerce Cloud eCommerce platform.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Lead the architectural design of enterprise-grade eCommerce solutions on Salesforce Commerce Cloud (SFCC) using SFRA and Headless Commerce principles.
• Translate complex business requirements into modular, scalable, and secure technical solutions on the SFCC platform.
• Define and enforce best practices for SFCC customizations, cartridge development, controller logic, and Business Manager configurations.
• Collaborate with DevOps and Infrastructure teams to implement CI/CD pipelines, deployment strategies, and performance monitoring tools for SFCC environments.
• Oversee integrations with third-party APIs and systems including payment gateways, ERP, OMS, PIM, personalization, and marketing automation tools.
• Guide the evolution of decoupled architecture leveraging SFCC, headless frameworks (e.g., React/Next.js), and composable commerce patterns.
• Partner with QA and Security teams to ensure robust testing, compliance (including PCI-DSS), and security best practices are integrated into the development lifecycle.
• Provide technical mentorship to developers, conduct code and architecture reviews, and ensure alignment with engineering and performance standards.
• Monitor system reliability, site speed, uptime, and transaction flows in production, lead root cause analysis and continuous optimization initiatives.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of professional experience in software development, with at least 3+ years architecting solutions on Salesforce Commerce Cloud (SFCC / Demandware).
• Hands-on expertise with SFRA, ISML templates, OCAPI, SCAPI, and custom cartridge development.
• Demonstrated experience in headless commerce architecture, front-end frameworks (React, Angular, etc.), and integrating with RESTful APIs and GraphQL.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, or a related field.
• Master’s degree is a plus.
• An equivalent combination of education and experience will be considered.
• Professional Certification
• Salesforce certifications preferred (e.g., B2C Commerce Architect, SFCC Developer).
• Other relevant architecture or cloud certifications (e.g., AWS, Azure) are a plus.

Personal Traits:

• Manages time effectively
• Professional, respectful, modest and collaborative
• Understands the need to adapt to situations that involve changing tasks and/or locations, and shifting priorities
• Proactive in identifying opportunities for improvement and takes on responsibility.
• Presents solutions to problems when seeking support.
• Adapts own ways of working, working pattern and language to match different professional surroundings
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and prioritize based on business needs
• Attention to detail and a high degree of intellectual curiosity
• Must be self-managed, responsive, dedicated and have a strong drive for results
• Analyzing statistics
• Assessing the pros and cons of possible strategies
• Compiling and presenting information orally, visually and in writing