Lead Solution Architect - Hyderabad, India - Zyoin Group

Description

Experience Range:
years

Job description:
Required 8 to 12 years of total experience. At least 6-8 years of relevant experience in E-commerce.

Design the Solution architecture for the foreseeable future (2 to 4 years).Define strategic choice between buying and own build, and make trade-offs between requirement, quality, stability, and implementation cost & speed."Own" the complete e-commerce landscape (Pricing & BI, product content, channel integration, webshops (running on Salesforce CC) and customer service.

Lead the design and development of the e-commerce platform, ensuring that it is scalable, secure, and performant.

Work closely with the development teams to ensure that the various platforms within the domain are being built using best practices and adhere to (enterprise) architectural principles.

Collaborate with Lead Product Owner and other stakeholders to understand their needs and translate them into technical requirements.
Asses current vendors against our future roadmap and initiate changes if needed.

Drive technical, architectural, and functional discussions, challenging and guiding both business and developers to build solutions that fit our needs and achieve our long-term business objective.

Surveil development efforts and provide technical direction to the team based on stakeholder requirements.

Define system integration architectures and work with partner system integrators and design patterns, approaches, and guidelines, adhering to compliance standards.

Stay abreast with new technologies and share new ideas and techniques that are relevant to the e-commerce space.

Create an approachable environment for the team members to ask questions and escalate issues; define milestone commitments and mentor junior team members.

Support the team in planning data migration and system go-live activities addressing technical issues and challenges.
Determine software solutions and perform POCs as needed.
Perform code review.
Implement load testing standards to troubleshoot performance problems.
Design and develop frameworks, tools, and accelerators that enhance the ability of technology team members and organisation.
Contribute to new business opportunities by participating in pre-sales - providing solutions driving technical discussions with internal stakeholders.
Integrate third-party systems, like CRM, OMS, or ERP data, in e-commerce platforms using middleware, native APIs, or API gateways.
Fix performance, scalability, and other issues in a very time-critical environment.

Skills and Experience:5+ years of experience as a Solution Architect.8+ years of experience in developing e-commerce solutions and applications.6+ years of experience in any commercial e-commerce tool like SFCC, Magento, Shopify, BigCommerce, etc.

Architect certification in any e-commerce tool is desirable.
Start-up company experience is a plus.
Proven hands-on implementation experience in large, complex, multi-domain, and multisite e-commerce projects.

Experience with the Salesforce Commerce Cloud, Salesforce Service Cloud, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Mulesoft, Zendesk, Winshutte CMS, and RabitMQ ESB.Good knowledge of UI technologies and omnichannel e-commerce platforms.

Strong knowledge of e-commerce functionalities like product and catalogue management, pricing, promotions, loyalty, inventory management, order fulfilment, warranties, return management, payments, supply chain, etc.

Sound knowledge of cloud infrastructure in a popular platform, like AWS, Azure, or GCP.


Communication Skills:
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to effectively collaborate with diverse teams and present complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders

Problem-Solving:
Demonstrated ability to analyse complex business problems and architect innovative and practical solutions

Team Player:
A collaborative attitude with a willingness to mentor and support other team members


Adaptability:

Ability to work in a fast-paced and dynamic environment, adapting to changingExpertise in application lifecycle methodologies (like agile project and engineering processes, MVP).Hands-on knowledge of CI/CD implementation.

Comfortable in conducting workshops.
Hands-on experience in agile development methodology.
A self-starter and quick learner with the ability to work in a fast-paced and evolving environment.
Proactive, strong, and improvement-focused problem-solving skills.
Visionary with a helicopter view.