DevOps SFCC Architect

Overview

Define end-to-end architecture for Salesforce Commerce Cloud implementations and enhancements, lead technical design and governance, and drive modernization toward API-first, Headless and Composable Commerce.

What you'll do

• Define end-to-end solution architecture for Salesforce Commerce Cloud implementations and enhancements.
• Lead technical design discussions, architecture reviews, and solution design activities across commerce initiatives.
• Design scalable storefront, integration, API, and data exchange solutions.
• Provide architecture guidance for SFRA, OCAPI, SCAPI, and Headless Commerce implementations.
• Define integration strategies across OMS, payment, tax, fulfilment, analytics, and customer experience platforms.
• Evaluate and recommend appropriate architecture patterns, frameworks, and Salesforce Commerce Cloud platform capabilities.
• Design and govern multi-site and multi-locale commerce solutions.
• Conduct architecture, technical design, and code reviews to ensure adherence to platform standards, security, performance, and maintainability requirements.
• Establish development standards, coding practices, architecture principles, and technical governance processes.
• Establish and monitor code quality standards using tools such as SonarQube and automated quality gates.
• Define and govern CI/CD processes, deployment standards, and release management practices for SFCC applications.
• Oversee source code management, branching strategies, deployment automation, and release processes using Bitbucket and CI/CD pipelines.
• Support environment management, deployment planning, release readiness reviews, and production rollout activities.
• Drive technical root cause analysis and resolution of complex production, integration, and platform-related issues.
• Provide technical oversight and guidance on complex development activities, integrations, and modernization initiatives.
• Mentor developers, senior developers, and technical leads.
• Collaborate with business, product, engineering, and enterprise architecture teams to align technical solutions with business requirements.
• Maintain architecture documentation, solution diagrams, technical standards, and governance documentation.
• Drive modernization initiatives including API-first, Headless Commerce, and Composable Commerce.
• Influence technical direction across distributed teams while balancing business requirements with technical constraints.

What you'll need

• 10+ years of software engineering and commerce platform experience.
• 6+ years of hands-on Salesforce Commerce Cloud experience.
• Strong expertise in SFCC architecture, storefront development, and platform capabilities.
• Strong experience with SFRA and SiteGenesis (Legacy Components).
• Strong hands-on experience with OCAPI.
• Strong hands-on experience with SCAPI.
• Strong hands-on experience with Service Framework.
• Strong hands-on experience with Jobs Framework.
• Experience designing multi-site and multi-locale commerce architectures.
• Strong experience designing enterprise integration architectures.
• Strong understanding of API-first architecture principles.
• Experience with REST APIs and Web Services.
• Experience with payment integrations and enterprise commerce integrations.
• Strong understanding of performance optimization, scalability, security, and reliability.
• Experience with CI/CD pipeline design, governance, and release management.
• Experience with source code management, branching strategies, and deployment automation.
• Experience with Bitbucket and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with Managed Runtime deployments.
• Experience implementing code quality, security, and governance practices in enterprise development environments.
• Experience conducting architecture reviews, technical design reviews, and code reviews.
• Experience leading technical teams and architecture discussions.
• Strong technical leadership and architectural decision-making skills.
• Excellent communication, presentation, stakeholder management, and collaboration skills.
• Salesforce B2C Commerce Developer Certification.
• Salesforce B2C Commerce Architect Certification.
• Experience with SonarQube or equivalent code quality tools.

Nice to have

• Experience with Headless Commerce architecture and implementations.
• Experience with Backend for Frontend (BFF) architecture.
• Experience with Composable Commerce architecture.
• Experience with PWA Kit.
• Experience with OMS integrations, preferably Sterling OMS.
• Experience with search and merchandising platforms.
• Experience with analytics and tagging platforms.
• Experience with performance monitoring and observability platforms.
• Experience with fraud prevention platforms.
• Experience with tax, shipping, and fulfilment integrations.
• Experience in retail and omnichannel commerce.
• Understanding of AI-enabled commerce architectures and integration patterns.
• Experience evaluating AI-powered personalization, search, recommendation, or customer engagement solutions.
• Experience with AI-powered commerce and customer experience platforms.
• Experience mentoring and coaching technical teams.

Details

• Location: DGS India - Bengaluru - Manyata N1 Block.
• Brand: Merkle.
• Time type: Full time.
• Contract type: Permanent.