Commerce tools Architect - Bengaluru/Bangalore @ McFadyen Digital

Position Summary

The commercetools Architect will work hand in hand with the rest of the technical team and deliver robust and scalable eCommerce/ Marketplace solutions. You will be customer focused and should develop a strong understanding of the client needs from a technical perspective. You will ensure technical success of all commercetools projects through the definition of quality standards and best practices. You will mentor/groom the next level techies on commercetools and associated (MACH) technologies. You will also support creation of proposals, solutions architecture, effort estimates, working closely with global leaders.

Responsibilities

TopResponsibilities:

Hands on Experience in commercetools

1. Work with our clients to define solution architecture for large scale enterprise e-commerce/ Marketplace solutions using commercetools and other MACH technologies
2. Support, educate, and architect composable best-of-breed solution for McFadyen customers
3. Team-player with great knowledge and understanding of the key platform players in the space of composable best-of-breed technology like commercetools
4. Articulate the solutions and quantify cost and timeline estimates, in collaboration with other McFadyen team members.

Other Responsibilities:

• Ensure that the commercetools solutions McFadyen delivers are properly architected, developed, tested and delivered.
• Integrate commercetools with other systems and third party tools and services.
• Challenge a diverse group of energetic team members to get the best out of them.
• Drive and/or support business development including sales calls, preparing technical responses with estimated project scope, costs, duration and resource requirements in written proposals.
• Ensure client satisfaction. Loss of any client due to our performance or client dissatisfaction will be regarded as a major failure.
• Ensure all deliverables are produced with the proposed scope, timeline, budget.
• Collaborate with our project managers in activities such as estimation, planning, reporting, scope control, change management, and risk identification.
• Actively search for opportunities to expand our business within existing accounts.
• Participate in interviewing technical staff.
• Responsible for some staff performance reviews.
• Stay on top of technology trends and developments (out of self-driven passion).
• Drive diversification of our teams skills across different MACH technologies, platforms, and business models.
• Recommend best practices based on past experience, research, frameworks, design patterns, and visionary thinking.
• Support the Delivery managers and Project Managers in forecasting staff, budget and other resource needs on projects
• Liaise with our global team via regular videoconferences and occasional early morning or late evening calls.
• Be responsible for driving team certifications, specializations and maintaining software partner status
• Occasionally travel to client/prospect/partner sites and related conferences.
• Travel across the McFadyen offices in India and be a mentor to the technical team.

• Experience in architecting, implementing, leading, and delivering enterprise-scale projects/programs following the principles behind MACH (Microservices based, API-first, Cloud-native SaaS and Headless).
• The ideal candidate should have solid experience implementing MACH solutions with at least one project experience implementing Comercetools.
• Minimum 10 years of hands-on enterprise development experience
• Experience integrating Commercetools with other 3rd party systems
• Strong understanding of Commercetools architecture, Design and Configurations
• Requires agile or related project execution experience. commercetools knowledge is a must and the candidate must be hands-on.
• Experience in architecting/building headless solutions.
• Familiarity with building responsive websites that work on mobile and desktops.
• Should be ready to travel onsite and the candidate should have excellent communication skills.
• Excellent technical problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication skills (verbal and written)
• Able to assess project risks, particularly around resourcing and implementation process
• Experience in creating modules (payment, shipping, etc.)
• Experience setting up a practice will be a big plus
• Experience creating collaterals that would help the sales team sell solutions better
• Experience in architecting/building cloud based solutions.
• Experience with cloud platforms like GCP, Azure, AWS is a plus.

What we can offer you:

• A focus on career development and ongoing certifications
• Work with cutting-edge platforms and technologies
• Benefit from our flat management structure without a rigid hierarchy great ideas can come from anywhere.
• A community of passionate technical and strategic professionals you will both learn from and teach
• Remote Work

Our Core Values: Client Focus, Owning the Outcome, Adaptability, and Collaboration.

Keywords:commercetools, Marketplace, ecommerce, e-commerce,architecture, architect, leadership, MACH, Marketplacer.