Enterprise Architect (E-Commerce)

Job Description Enterprise Architect (E-Commerce)

Key Responsibilities / Candidate Requirements

• Own the end-to-end technical architecture of the e-commerce ecosystem, ensuring alignment with business objectives, scalability requirements, security standards, and enterprise architecture principles.
• Act as the primary technical liaison between organization and external delivery partners (e.g., development vendors, system integrators, and technology providers), providing architectural guidance, technical oversight, and decision support.
• Lead solution design discussions and scenario-based problem solving, demonstrating the ability to define well-structured, scalable, and practical solutions for current and future business challenges.
• Lead solution design and integration activities across e-commerce, ERP, PIM, CRM, CMS, payment, search, and other enterprise platforms, ensuring seamless data and process flows.
• Review and govern technical designs, development approaches, and implementation plans proposed by vendors to ensure compliance with organization technology standards, best practices, and long-term roadmap objectives.
• Drive technical decision-making and issue resolution for complex platform enhancements, integrations, performance challenges, and production incidents, serving as the go-to technical authority for the e-commerce landscape.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, product owners, architects, and delivery teams to translate business requirements into structured solution designs with clear architectural rationale.
• Ensure solutions are designed with strong focus on performance, scalability, and maintainability, including understanding, tracking, and optimizing key performance metrics.
• Support platform modernization, technology roadmap planning, and continuous improvement initiatives, identifying opportunities to enhance platform performance, maintainability, security, and customer experience.

Preferred Skills & Experience

• Strong experience in enterprise architecture and large-scale B2B/B2C e-commerce platforms.
• Deep understanding of system integrations, APIs, middleware, microservices, and cloud-based architectures.
• Working knowledge of cloud platforms (Azure/AWS) and core cloud concepts such as hosting models, scalability, and monitoring not expected to be a cloud expert, but must be able to apply cloud thinking in solution design.
• Proven ability to handle real-world business scenarios through structured solutioning and clear architectural thinking.
• Hands-on understanding of performance engineering principles, performance metrics, and performance optimization approaches.
• Experience managing and governing third-party development vendors and distributed delivery teams.
• Ability to communicate effectively with both technical teams and senior business stakeholders.
• Experience with digital commerce ecosystems, product information management, order management, and ERP integrations.
• Strong architecture review, technical governance, and solution assurance capabilities with focus on performance, scalability, and long-term sustainability.
• Demonstrated readiness to take ownership from day one and operate independently in a fast-paced delivery environment.

Preferred Tools/Technologies:

• CommerceTools
• Uniform CMS
• Node js
• Azure