Technical Architect – WCS ecommerce

Role Description:-

Key Responsibility:-

• Works on WebSphere Commerce architecture specifications.
• Works on identifying WCS out-of-the-box functionalities to be leveraged to meet customer needs.
• Provides the details on WCS processes and patterns to various stakeholders of the project in order to ease the requirement gathering and architecture designing efforts.
• Ensure clarity on NFR and address these requirements during Architecture definition phase.
• Define Logical, Technical & Physical views of Architecture.
• Define reusable components/frameworks, common schemas, standards to be used & tools to be used and help bootstrap the engineering team.
• Review design to make sure design is aligned with WCS Architecture.
• Lead performance engineering and capacity planning exercises.
• Help PM in identifying key technical risks and mitigation plan for the same.
• Help PM in effort estimation and planning.
• Mentor & guide Tech Leads & Software Engineers Other Responsibilities.
• Responsible for developing best practices and guidelines to be followed by the team.

Desired Skill:-

• 10+ years of experience in IT including at least 3 years in Architect roles for WebSphere commerce implementations (B2C/B2B systems).
• 8+ years with hands-on experience Java/JEE; Struts/JSF, Spring, EJB, RESTful service and Web services.
• Proven experience with various subsystems of WCS like Catalog, Member, Order, payment.
• Strong experience in SOLR will be an added advantage.
• Experience in Integrating with various systems/services such as Payment gateways, Bazaar voice integration, Analytics, External Order Management, Content Management systems (Exposure to AEM will be an added advantage).
• Strong design and development skills with database technologies and DB2 database.
• Proficient in dealing with all the layers in solution: Multi-channel presentation, business logic in middleware, data access layer, RDBMS | NO-SQL.
• Strong understanding of architecture patterns such as multi-tenancy, scalability, and federation, to build cloud-ready systems.
• Proficient in UNIX/Linux environments.
• Strong skills in HTML technologies including AngularJS, React JS, HTML5, CSS, JSON, XML, AJAX and comfortable with responsive design using Bootstrap.
• Experience in using Maven, JUnit, JProfiler/JProbe.
• Exposure to tools like Rational suite, Enterprise Architect, Eclipse, and Source code versioning systems like CVS/SVN.
• Experience with different development methodologies (RUP | Scrum | XP).
• Expertise in creating technical documents like Architecture views, Technology Architecture blueprint and Design specification.
• Experience in Architecture consulting engagements is a plus.
• Certification in any Architecture related area is a plus.
• Follow trends in technology and have a point of view.
• Knowledge and understanding of cloud computing infrastructure (Azure / Amazon EC2 / …)