Liferay/eCommerce Technical Lead

The Opportunity

BARBRI is looking for a Liferay eCommerce Architect to serve as the technical lead for our eCommerce technology stack. You’ll own the architectural roadmap and implementation for our Liferay DXP Commerce experience—modernizing a legacy implementation, reducing tech debt, and unlocking faster, safer delivery. This role blends deep Liferay/DXP expertise with pragmatic leadership: you’ll guide engineering, shape platform strategy, and partner closely with Product, Security, and external vendors.

What You’ll Do

• Own the eCommerce Architecture. Lead end-to-end architecture for Liferay DXP + Commerce (catalog, pricing, promotions, checkout, order orchestration, content, personalization, search). Define target/reference architectures, guardrails, and patterns for scale, resilience, and cost.

• Modernize the experience. Evolve us toward modular, maintainable solutions by leveraging leading-edge Liferay platform features such as client extensions.

• Tame tech debt. Establish a prioritized remediation plan, accelerate defect burn‑down, and improve stability/performance through code standards, platform upgrades, caching, and observability.

• Lead delivery. Provide technical leadership to a cross functional squad (backend, frontend, QA, DevOps). Unblock teams, conduct design reviews, and make crisp tradeoffs between speed, quality, and risk.

• Platform stewardship. Define and enforce API contracts, versioning, extension points, and integration patterns across payments, tax, identity/SSO, marketing tools, and analytics.

• Data & search. Ensure high quality product/catalog data flows, metadata strategy, and search/merchandising that supports discovery, conversion, and SEO.

• Performance & reliability. Set SLOs, implement RUM/APM, capacity planning, synthetic tests, and chaos friendly patterns (bulkheads, timeouts, retries, idempotency).

• Security & compliance. Partner with security secrets, PCI-relevant flows, PII, and secure coding; drive threat modeling and regular pentest remediation.

• Vendor & partner leadership. Set technical direction for services partners, review SOWs, and hold vendors to measurable engineering outcomes.

• Delivery excellence. Raise the bar on SDLC: branching, CI/CD, trunk‑based practices, test automation, quality gates, and progressive delivery (feature flags).

• Road mapping & stakeholder comms. Translate business goals into a sequenced platform roadmap. Communicate status and risks clearly to executives and cross-functional leaders.

• Provide guidance. Work with end-users in the business to drive adoption of best practices in content creation, delivery, and design.

What You’ll Bring

• Depth in Liferay. 7+ years implementing Liferay DXP (Portal/Content/Commerce), including extensions, OSGi modules, upgrade paths, and the headless toolset; experience with Liferay Commerce capabilities in production.

• Modern front‑end integration. Strong experience with React and DXP client‑extension/remote‑app patterns; comfort designing for decoupled or progressively decoupled architectures.

• eCommerce domain expertise. Practical understanding of catalog models, entitlement/pricing, promotions, checkout/payment/tax, order management, B2B/B2C flows, and multi‑site/multi‑catalog scenarios.

• Integration architecture. Proven patterns for integrating DXP with CRM, payments, tax, search, marketing, and analytics—plus eventing, queuing, and data contracts.

• SDLC leadership. Track record improving delivery speed and quality through architecture runway, quality gates, and CI/CD; comfortable mentoring engineers and guiding code quality.

• Reliability mindset. Experience with performance tuning, capacity planning, caching/CDN, and production observability (APM, logs, traces, dashboards, alerts).

• Security & privacy. Familiar with secure coding practices, OWASP Top 10, and compliance considerations across commerce flows.

• Communication & influence. Executive-friendly communication; ability to align stakeholders, guide partners, and make decisions with incomplete information.

Nice to Have

• Liferay upgrade/migration leadership (e.g., 7.x to latest, Commerce adoption).

• Search/merchandising experience (e.g., Elastic