Job Title: Commerce Technical Architect
Posted on September 29, 2026
Job Description
Commerce Technical Architect
Overview
We are looking for a Commerce Technical Architect to own the architecture of complex enterprise commerce programs across B2C and B2B. The role involves defining target-state architecture across frontend, commerce platforms, integrations, and data, while ensuring solutions are scalable, practical, and achievable within business constraints and timelines.
The architect will work across ERP integrations and migrations, multi-region and multi-entity storefronts, B2B commerce, order management, frontend architecture, payments, tax, identity, performance, and integration platforms.
The role also includes creating architecture diagrams, integration specifications and ADRs, guiding engineering teams, managing technical dependencies, supporting migration and cutover, and communicating architectural trade-offs to both technical and business stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
- Own target-state architecture across B2C and B2B commerce, including platform, frontend, integration, and data.
- Design commerce-to-ERP architecture, including sync direction, event models, reconciliation, and multi-ERP scenarios.
- Architect B2B commerce capabilities such as:
- Account hierarchies
- Contract/tiered pricing
- Quote-to-order
- Punchout
- Bulk/reorder flows
- Credit terms
- Approval chains
- Design multi-region, multi-entity storefronts with regional catalogs, currencies, tax jurisdictions, and payment configurations.
- Define frontend architecture, including SSR/ISR strategy, component-driven development, design systems, and API contracts.
- Evaluate integration and iPaaS solutions and define connector capabilities versus custom development requirements.
- Design for peak performance and scale, including caching and CDN architecture.
- Own migration and cutover strategy, including legacy data migration and phased/zero-downtime rollout.
- Create architecture diagrams, integration specifications, and Architecture Decision Records (ADRs).
- Set technical standards, review designs, and mentor engineers.
- Manage technical dependencies with ERP, data, payment, and other external teams.
- Present architectural trade-offs to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Support presales by assessing technical feasibility and accurately scoping proposed commerce solutions.
Required Skills
- 10+ years of hands-on commerce engineering and architecture experience.
- Strong expertise in B2B commerce.
- Strong ERP-centric architecture experience.
- Experience with composable/headless and traditional commerce platforms.
- Strong integration and multi-region commerce experience.
- Experience working with large-scale systems.
- Practical AI fluency and ability to evaluate and apply AI-powered workflows.
What We're Looking For
- 10+ years of experience in commerce engineering and architecture with strong hands-on development experience.
- Strong experience with both composable/headless commerce and traditional platforms such as:
- commercetools
- BigCommerce
- Shopify
- Adobe Commerce
- Strong frontend architecture experience, including:
- SSR
- ISR
- Component-driven architecture
- Shared design systems
Required Skills
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