Adobe Commerce Technical Architect (Contract)

Adobe Commerce Technical Architect

Adobe Commerce Technical Architect wanted on a contract basis.

The successful candidate will be required to lead the application and solution design, assist in solution implementation and be responsible for the technical delivery of complex eCommerce solutions. The candidate will be required to work closely with our clients and our internal delivery teams to ensure our solutions meet the business requirements and are delivered to VML principles, standards and best practices. The candidate should be business focused and have a proven track record of delivery.

What you'll be doing:

• Producing and owning innovative technical solutions to fit business requirements, following VML delivery approach and ensuring successful delivery of the solution
• Producing and owning architecture design documents covering baseline and target architectures for applications, integrations, data and technology - ensuring the design meets our architecture principles and best practices for the technology platform and justifying the solution design against other options
• Producing technical specifications for lead developers covering mid-low level application, interface and database design, including identifying relevant design patterns and application frameworks
• Communicating technical architectures and designs to internal teams, including developers and testers
• Communicating directly with the customer on all aspects of the technical design, including running design workshops, participating in architecture reviews, providing recommendations and reasons for key design decisions and explaining complex technical designs to non-technical stakeholders
• Communicating directly with 3rd parties to agree designs, especially in the integration domain
• Identifying impacts of a given solution/architecture and challenging business requirements or suggesting alternate solutions where necessary
• Identifying and managing key stakeholders of the architecture change
• Working collaboratively with other architects and lead developers to share knowledge and solutions
• Estimating the design and implementation effort of large-scale and complex E-commerce solutions and assisting in the delivery, migration and go-live planning
• Ownerships of the technical delivery, ensuring and demonstrating the quality of the deliverable, from code quality through to performance, scalability and security of the solution
• Leading new application/technical architects in all aspects of the above
• Keeping informed of technology changes (eg trends, software updates, platform updated, 3rd party solutions) and reviewing these for recommendation into new projects or existing clients

What we want from you:

• Have a deep understanding of application architecture and design across the application and integration domains, along with a good understanding of data architecture and design, including relational database design
• Extensive experience of working with Magento/Adobe Commerce,
• Extensive design experience in complex enterprise scale eCommerce environments
• You will be able to demonstrate knowledge of software development methodology using PHP and Adobe Commerce, full project life cycle and a structured approach to design
• Experience/knowledge of modern design approaches including best use of eCommerce platforms, componentized architectures, micro-services, web components, cloud etc
• Proven technical leadership skills within an internal team and within a client facing environment.
• A thorough understanding of web technologies, including Client Server architecture, security (eg encryption), and caching strategies, with a mind for capacity and performance in all designs
• Strong understanding of MySQL
• Excellent written and oral communication and interpersonal skills

If you know some of this, even better:

• Certified as an Adobe Commerce Architect
• Certified as an Adobe Commerce Developer (Expert level)
• Elasticsearch
• Redis
• Varnish
• RabbitMQ

Our personality and behaviours: We believe that we are what we do, not just what we say. Our shared values and behaviours show how to bring the VML Enterprise Solution's culture to life through the actions we all take every day:

• Connect Meaningfully
• Inspire Creatively
• Include Purposefully
• Approach Positively

Our brilliant, talented people are what makes VML Enterprise Solutions what we are. That's why we look for people who go beyond and always push our thinking to be better than yesterday.

AT VML Enterprise Solutions

Our Enterprise Solutions division houses strategic consultants, creative and technical architects and skilled developers and operators that together help some of the world's leading organisations to deliver outstanding digital experiences across all major routes to market worldwide: marketplaces, online retailers, D2C, B2B and social platforms. With over 4,200 experts in 55 operational centres across 34 countries, our capabilities span the entire buying journey from customer acquisition, through engagement, to conversion and loyalty, driving multi-channel growth for world-leading brands.

We work with some of the most exciting brands such as The Coca-Cola Company, EY, Bosch, Unilever, Ford, DFS, Mercedes-Benz, Johnson & Johnson, Nestlé, Sainsbury's, Selfridges, Shell and Tiffany & Co. We've built over 500 platforms for brands and retailers and generate in excess of $29bn annually for our clients and work with over 50 strategic partners including Adobe, SAP, Salesforce, HCL, Shopify, Sitecore, BigCommerce, commerce tools and Acquia. Our reputation is based on our people, and we believe we have some of the best in the business.

As our business grows internationally, we're looking for new people to join us on our journey to inspire and take a key role in shaping some of the best commerce solutions, services, and websites in the world. Working as a team, no problem is insurmountable; we share in our client's successes and believe that anyone can show creative bravery no matter what their role is in the team.