SAP Commerce Cloud Architect

Role: SAP Commerce Cloud Architect

Location: Chicago(Naperville), IL

Role name: Product Architect
Role Description: ? Help with and Implement the Backend Architectural Artifacts? Platform level
systems and services (PIM, ERP, Commerce, CMS, Marketing etc), their relationships and
interconnectivity? Implementation level architecture for secure, cloud-native, scalable & performant
backend services (monoliths, microservices, modularization) ? Contribute to and maintain our org wide
Architecture Decision Records? Support the delivery and maintenance of our Backend Engineering
Policies, Procedures and Standards? CI/CD practices, environment configuration, feedback loops etc?
Backend tooling, frameworks, their application, quality gating and measurement? Technology
stack/services consultancy and selection in accordance with technical and quality requirements
(scalability, performance, security, compliance)? Support our platform & Backend Operational Practices?
Drive Ecommerce and Parts Town wide projects? Disaster Resiliency, Recovery and Availability Planning
capabilities? Logging strategies for efficient root cause analysis and low MTTR?s? Monitoring, Alerting
and on-call policies ? Unit, Integration and Acceptance level, API contract testing strategies? Ongoing
metrics and dashboarding on backend performance (SLAs, SLOs, SLIs, Golden Signals dashboarding etc)?
Drive best in class Backend strategies? Our customers need to love what we do for them? Work across
disciplines and with other Principal Engineers to evangelize for the needs of the Backend discipline?
Knowledge transfer, training, mentoring of backend practices across the engineering org

Competencies: Digital : Amazon Web Service(AWS) Cloud Computing, Digital : Kubernetes, Digital:
Terraform, Digital : Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
Experience (Years): 10 & Above
Essential Skills: ? Extensive ecommerce experience and the latest capabilities in the space. Exposure and
usage of major ecommerce platforms (SAP Commerce Cloud, Magento, Mirakl, Punchouts etc)? Expert
knowledge of backend technologies, their strengths and weaknesses and how to get the most out of
them e.g. SAP Commerce Cloud, SAP S/4, ElasticSearch/Solr, Redis, MSSQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL? An
advocate and enabler of strong quality controls (unit, integration, acceptance testing frameworks and
methodologies) using industry leading tooling (Junit, SonarCloud, Jmeter, Webdriver.io etc)? Proficiency
in one or more major cloud platforms, such as Azure (preference), Google Cloud, AWS or others; A deep
understanding of cloud native methodologies? Containerization technologies: Docker/ContainerD,
Kubernetes (K8S, K3S), container registries and artifact tools (e.g. Artifactory, GCR, ACR, ECR)? An
applied knowledge of vertical and horizontal scaling of systems and services including microservice,
monolithic, Web/Queue/Worker and distributed systems architectural patterns? Understanding of REST,
GraphQL and event-driven architecture principles and best practices and tooling (e.g. Pub/Sub, Kafka
etc)? Experience with APM, distributed tracing techniques, monitoring and logging tools like AWS
CloudWatch, EFK/ELK Stack, OpenTelemetry, Dynatrace, Datadog, New Relic etc? A strong
understanding and observed application of oAuth2, Spiffe?s, and other Authz and Authn best practices
and tooling? Strong competence in a range of programming languages and associated frameworks e.g.
Java, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, SpringBoot, ReactJS, NextJS, TailwindCSS etc? Knowledge of diagramming
tools and methodologies (e.g. Miro, Diagrams.net, Figjam, Mermaid.JS etc)? Strong communication and
presentation skills