- Establish and maintain subject matter expertise of Wescos omnichannel platforms and their business/information/technical architectures

- Collaborate with business and IT leadership/influencers to understand core needs and strategic direction, and ultimately align with mission/vision/values/goals.

- Collaborate with architects and other technical thought leadership to align on principles, patterns, standards, and their communication to the broader IT audience.

- Lead or participate in architectural spikes

- Provide analysis, expertise, perspective, and recommendations regarding potential technology acquisitions

- Lead full-stack platform and integration design efforts relative to security, performance, scalability, resilience, extensibility, and enterprise best practices.

- Identify and drive optimization in areas of cross-domain impact, risk, performance, inability to scale, inconsistency, excessive complexity, or relevant technical debt

- Drive adoption to and continuous improvement with DevSecOps principles (environment automation and CI/CD)

REQUIRED SKILLS/EXPERIENCE :

- 5+ years as an architect or technical lead over an enterprise-class eCommerce platform

- Expertise in delivering experiences for multiple countries, languages, currencies, and brands

- Expertise in responsive application development using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, and UI/MVC frameworks

- Expertise with RESTful APIs and GraphQL

- Expertise interacting with both relational and unstructured data repositories (ex : MySQL, MongoDB, data lakes)

- Expertise in troubleshooting and optimizing data, application, and integration performance (ex : caching, tracing, monitoring, and logging)

- Experience working with identity management and application security/authentication frameworks

- Experience leveraging content delivery networks (ex : Cloudflare, Imperva, Akamai)

- Experience integrating with enterprise business platforms (ex : CRM/ERP/WMS)

- Experience deploying and managing assets in cloud-hosted runtime environments using CI/CD principles and automation

- Experience with message-based pub/sub integration architectures

- Ability to estimate work effort/complexity/cost with predictable accuracy

- Ability to foster collaborative relationships through clear, frequent, and credible communication using the appropriate media and levels of detail for the situation

PREFERRED SKILLS/EXPERIENCE :

- Strong preference to have worked directly with Magento 2 /Adobe Commerce

- Headless commerce

- Mulesoft

- Token CSS and Post CSS

- Figma and Storybook

- Microsoft Azure or other cloud workload hosting