Senior Digital Commerce Architect - Deutschland (m/w/d)

Germany, all locations

Senior Level

About Us

Where Innovation meets Excellence.

Be a part of a globally renowned management consulting firm that is on the front-line of industry disruption. We are a mid-size player with an entrepreneurial spirit that works with a market-leading brand in every sector, while our parent organization Infosys is a top-5 powerhouse IT brand that is outperforming the market and experiencing rapid growth.

Our consulting business is annually recognized as one of the UK’s top firms by the Financial Times and Forbes due to our client innovations, our cultural diversity and dedicated training and career paths we offer to our consultants.

As we look to strengthen our team with top talent that can shape the future for our firm, we seek entrepreneurial-minded individuals that value a highly-diverse culture where differences are embraced, that want to have a voice with top management and that are rewarded for collective achievement. We are committed to fostering an inclusive work culture that inspires everyone to deliver their best!

The Team

Our Consumer Goods, Retail and Logistics practice helps some of the largest global firms and most recognizable local brands solve their biggest challenges in today’s age of constant disruption. With diverse services spanning growth strategy and new product innovation, to omni-channel customer experience, supply chain resiliency and AI-driven new business models, we help clients shape and achieve their growth agenda for a sustainable future.

The Role

As a Senior Architect you support delivery teams in the development of detailed solution roadmaps for a well-defined set of capabilities or logical group of systems, services or projects. You partner closely with engineers and project management to ensure that implementation meets design expectations. You are proactive in reaching out to other architects and leaders in teams with which your technology integrates and you drive results through strong cross-functional collaboration. You serve as the organization’s subject matter expert for capabilities in your portfolio and work actively within the Architecture Community of Practice.

• In partnership with Business Analysts, Project Managers, Product Owners, Engineers and other Architects, you provide leadership in defining project requirements and success criteria along with guiding the design through out the development lifecycle
• Participate and present at architecture design reviews
• Proactively align with key stakeholders, seek organizational context and apply learnings to architecture solutions; be comfortable supporting and communicating with diverse technical and business teams
• Evaluate, document, and escalate alterations to future state architectures
• Communicates trade-offs in different types of engineering and architecture processes and adjust your team’s process to meet the needs of the project and others on the team
• Contribute to the growth and strength of the architecture community of practice by actively attending and presenting at community events

About You

• Minimum 5 years of real-world experience developing, deploying, scaling and maintaining software systems; a majority of this experience should come from working in a full stack environment consisting of web based front ends backed by cloud-based services.
• Relevant industry experience is preferred, with prior experience developing full stack solutions for retail or eCommerce businesses.
• Defining the e-commerce architecture and integrating it into the enterprise architecture with due consideration of the “big picture”
• Experience integrating web frontends with complex multi-tier applications
• Experience using compute, networking, storage, and database components in one of the major cloud platforms: Amazon AWS (preferred)
• Very good understanding of the functions of an e-commerce backend, including its integration into a global e-commerce and ERP landscape
• Previous experience translating business requirements into high level and low-level designs for engineering teams.
• Able to design for specific security threat models and able to describe basic and advanced security and compliance aspects of cloud platform primitives.
• Be able to describe the key services of a given cloud platform and be able to select appropriately for given use cases, e.g. compute, storage, analytics, etc
• At least 3 years experience in developing technology roadmap and driving strategy discussion

Experience with each of:

• Modern engineering practices including micro front end, microservices and headless architecture
• Building cloud-native apps and event-message-driven distributed systems