Solution Architect-Ecommerce (cart/checkout)

Job Description:

Solution Architect ecommerce (cart/checkout) is part of the growing ecommerce transformation team at Pluralsight. This team is focused on enabling best in class customer experience for our customers online ecommerce Solutions Architect will be responsible for partnering closely with Marketing and Sales  to understand the initiatives to design and architect. You will also collaborate  with other technology directors, technical leads and product managers, you will have visibility and input into how we accomplish key business priorities and will be relied upon to prioritize technical engineering considerations and workstreams to meet those objectives. You will work closely with all parts of our engineering organization, driving priorities and empowering the ecommerce team of designers, engineers and product managers  with the tools necessary for them to deliver. We’re looking for someone who will be devising and implementing initiatives that drive traffic, conversion, customer retention, revenue, and profitability of the ecommerce platform.

Who you’re committed to being:

• You enjoy learning and are open to new ways of doing things.

• You are not afraid to be yourself, experiment, make mistakes and learn from them, ask questions, or voice your concerns.

• When communicating you are self-aware, insightful, and proactive.

• You are a team member first and individual contributor second. You are aware that high-performing teams are only as strong as their weakest link.

• You believe in continuous improvement and request frequent feedback from others.

What you’ll do:

• Provide key strategic consulting and advisory services to IT executives, project teams, operations and engineering teams to ensure that systems solutions are in line with the architectural direction and business strategies

• Engage in user experience, conversion optimization, development, testing and ecommerce website product management

• Provide input into  the roadmap for ecommerce

• Work closely with Development teams and act as a bridge between Product owners and Development teams to perform Proof of Concepts on provided design and technology, develop re-usable components etc

• Conduct and provide industry research and evaluations on strategic architectural and solution alternatives

• Develop prototypes and conduct proof of concept feasibility studies

• Provide guidance, review and other feedback on the evolution of systems and architectures and the adoption of new technologies with creation of technology and architecture roadmaps

• Participate in Architecture Review Board, Application Portfolio Management and other key Enterprise Architecture governance activities

• Coach and mentor other solution architects that are distributed onsite, offshore, and other remote locations to ensure deliverables are aligned and on track for completion/delivery

• Participate in project estimations, system architecture and performance engineering of projects

• Self-motivated to research the newest technologies and industry trends. Uses this research in furthering our architecture strategy and solutions.

Experience you’ll bring:

• Strong experience in architecting large enterprise and ecommerce systems with high transaction volumes.

• Large scale enterprise system experience, ecommerce experience.

• Hands on working on MACH (Microservices, APIs-first, Cloud-native, and Headless) architecture using Java, NodeJS etc

• Development experience with full stack development using UI technologies like React/React Native or Native iOS/Android development and backend using microservices architecture.

• Proficiency in API security frameworks, token management and user access control including OAuth, JWT, etc.

• Hands on experience debugging production software, monitoring tools like AppDynamics or any similar one.

• Solid foundation and understanding of relational and NoSQL database principles.

• Ability to work in an Agile / SCRUM environment.

• Proven track record of executing on the full product lifecycle (inception through deprecation) to create highly scalable and flexible RESTful APIs to enable an infinite number of digital products.

• Strong writing and communication sk