DevOps SFCC Architect

Job Description:

Key Responsibilities

·       Define end-to-end solution architecture for Salesforce Commerce Cloud implementations and enhancements.

·       Lead technical design discussions and architecture reviews across commerce initiatives.

·       Design scalable storefront, integration, API, and data exchange solutions.

·       Provide architecture guidance for SFRA, OCAPI, SCAPI, and Headless Commerce implementations.

·       Evaluate and recommend architecture patterns, frameworks, and platform capabilities.

·       Define integration strategies across OMS, payment, tax, fulfilment, analytics, and customer experience platforms.

·       Collaborate with business, product, engineering, and enterprise architecture teams to define solution approaches.

·       Mentor developers, senior developers, and technical leads.

·       Review technical designs and provide technical oversight and guidance on complex development activities, integrations, and modernization initiatives.

·       Conduct architecture, design, and code reviews to ensure adherence to platform standards, best practices, performance, security, and maintainability requirements.

·       Establish development standards, coding practices, and technical governance processes.

·       Ensure solutions meet security, scalability, performance, reliability, and maintainability requirements.

·       Establish code quality standards and monitor compliance using tools such as SonarQube and automated quality gates.

·       Define and maintain CI/CD processes, deployment standards, and release governance for Salesforce Commerce Cloud applications.

·       Oversee source code management, branching strategies, and deployment processes using Bitbucket and CI/CD pipelines.

·       Support environment management, deployment planning, release readiness reviews, and production rollout activities.

·       Support production issue analysis for complex architectural and integration-related challenges.

·       Drive technical root cause analysis and resolution of complex production and platform-related issues.

·       Contribute to modernization initiatives including API-first, Headless Commerce, and composable architecture programs.

·       Maintain architecture documentation, solution diagrams, and technical standards.

Required Skills & Experience

·       10+ years of software engineering and commerce platform experience.

·       6+ years of hands-on Salesforce Commerce Cloud experience.

·       Strong expertise in SFCC architecture, storefront development, and platform capabilities.

·       Experience designing multi-site and multi-locale commerce solutions.

·       Strong experience with SFRA, OCAPI, SCAPI, Service Framework, and Jobs Framework.

·       Experience designing enterprise integration architectures.

·       Strong understanding of API-first architecture principles.

·       Experience supporting large-scale global commerce implementations.

·       Strong understanding of performance optimization, scalability, and security best practices.

·       Experience designing and governing CI/CD pipelines and release management processes.

·       Experience with source code management, branching strategies, and deployment automation.

·       Experience conducting code reviews, technical design reviews, and architecture governance activities within enterprise development teams.

·       Experience implementing code quality, security, and governance practices within enterprise development environments.

·       Experience leading technical teams and architecture discussions.

·       Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.

 

Technical Skills

Mandatory

• Salesforce Commerce Cloud (SFCC)
• SFRA and SiteGenesis (Legacy Components)
• Payment integrations
• OCAPI
• SCAPI
• Service Framework
• Jobs Framework
• Multi-site / Multi-locale commerce architecture
• Integration architecture
• API-first architecture
• Solution design and architecture governance
• REST APIs and Web Services
• Performance optimization
• Security architecture
• Code Quality and Governance
• Bitbucket
• CI/CD Pipeline Design and Governance
• Release Management
• Deployment Automation
• Salesforce B2C Commerce Developer Certification
• Salesforce B2C Commerce Architect Certification
• SonarQube or equivalent code quality tools
• Bitbucket Pipelines or equivalent CI/CD tooling
• Managed Runtime deployments

Preferred

• Headless Commerce architecture and implementations
• Backend for Frontend (BFF) architecture
• Composable Commerce architecture
• Understanding of AI-enabled commerce architectures and integration patterns.
• Experience evaluating AI-powered personalization, search, recommendation, or customer engagement solutions.
• PWA Kit awareness
• OMS integrations (Sterling OMS preferred)
• Search and merchandising platforms
• Analytics and tagging platforms
• Performance Monitoring and Observability Platforms

Good to Have

• Fraud prevention platforms
• Tax integrations
• Shipping and fulfilment integrations
• Retail and omnichannel commerce experience
• AI-powered commerce, personalization, search, recommendation, and customer engagement platforms.

Desired Competencies

• Strong technical leadership and architectural decision-making capabilities.
• Ability to balance business requirements with technical constraints.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Ability to drive architecture standards and best practices.
• Strategic thinking with a focus on platform scalability and modernization.
• Ability to establish and enforce development standards, architecture principles, and code quality practices.
• Strong mentoring and technical coaching capabilities across development teams.
• Ability to influence technical direction across distributed teams.

Location:

DGS India - Bengaluru - Manyata N1 Block

Brand:

Merkle

Time Type:

Full time

Contract Type:

Permanent