SFCC Technical Lead

Roles

We are seeking an experienced Salesforce Commerce Cloud (SFCC) Technical Architect to lead the architecture, design, and evolution of large-scale global eCommerce platforms. The role involves defining scalable, secure, and high-performing commerce solutions, driving modernization initiatives, establishing technical governance, and providing architectural leadership across multi-site and multi-locale implementations.

The ideal candidate will have deep SFCC expertise, strong integration architecture experience, and hands-on knowledge of CI/CD, deployment automation, release governance, and code quality practices.

Responsibilities

• Define end-to-end solution architecture for Salesforce Commerce Cloud implementations and enhancements.
• Lead technical design discussions, architecture reviews, and architectural decision-making.
• Design scalable storefront, API, integration, and data exchange solutions.
• Provide architectural guidance for SFRA, SiteGenesis, OCAPI, SCAPI, and Headless Commerce implementations.
• Define integration strategies for payment, OMS, tax, fulfilment, analytics, and customer experience platforms.
• Design and govern multi-site and multi-locale commerce solutions for global business operations.
• Establish architecture standards, coding practices, technical governance, and code quality processes.
• Define and maintain CI/CD pipelines, branching strategies, deployment automation, and release management processes using Bitbucket and equivalent tools.
• Implement and monitor code quality standards using SonarQube or equivalent tools and automated quality gates.
• Oversee environment management, deployment planning, release readiness, and production rollout activities.
• Ensure solutions meet performance, scalability, security, reliability, and maintainability requirements.
• Conduct architecture, technical design, and code reviews to ensure compliance with enterprise standards and best practices.
• Drive root cause analysis and resolution of complex production, platform, and integration issues.
• Lead modernization initiatives involving API-first, Headless Commerce, and composable architecture.
• Mentor developers, senior developers, and technical leads while providing technical guidance to distributed teams.
• Collaborate with business, product, engineering, and enterprise architecture stakeholders.
• Maintain architecture documentation, solution diagrams, and technical standards.

Must-Have

• 10+ years of overall software engineering and commerce platform experience.
• 6+ years of hands-on Salesforce Commerce Cloud (SFCC) experience.
• Strong expertise in SFCC architecture, storefront development, and platform capabilities.
• Hands-on experience with SFRA, SiteGenesis (legacy components), OCAPI, SCAPI, Service Framework, and Jobs Framework.
• Experience designing multi-site and multi-locale commerce architectures.
• Strong integration architecture experience, including payment integrations, REST APIs, and web services.
• Strong understanding of API-first architecture principles and enterprise integration patterns.
• Experience with solution design, architecture governance, technical design reviews, and code reviews.
• Strong knowledge of performance optimization, scalability, and security best practices.
• Experience defining and governing CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, source code management, branching strategies, and release management.
• Experience with Bitbucket, Bitbucket Pipelines or equivalent CI/CD tools, and Managed Runtime deployments.
• Experience implementing code quality, security, and governance practices using SonarQube or equivalent tools.
• Proven technical leadership, architecture decision-making, and stakeholder management skills.
• Excellent communication, presentation, mentoring, and collaboration skills.
• Salesforce B2C Commerce Developer Certification.
• Salesforce B2C Commerce Architect Certification.

Good-to-Have

• Experience with Headless Commerce and composable commerce architecture.
• Knowledge of Backend for Frontend (BFF) architecture and PWA Kit.
• Experience with OMS integrations, preferably Sterling OMS.
• Exposure to search and merchandising platforms, analytics, tagging, performance monitoring, and observability tools.
• Experience integrating fraud prevention, tax, shipping, and fulfilment platforms.
• Understanding of AI-enabled commerce architectures and integration patterns.
• Experience evaluating AI-powered personalization, search, recommendations, and customer engagement solutions.
• Retail and omnichannel commerce experience.
• Experience supporting large-scale global eCommerce modernization initiatives.

Location:

DGS India - Pune - Indiqube Orchid

Brand:

Merkle

Time Type:

Full time

Contract Type:

Permanent