Responsibilities

1. Technical Leadership & Team Ownership

- Act as the technical leader for the engineering team.

- Serve as the first technical escalation point for developers.

- Provide technical direction, mentoring and guidance to developers.

- Review technical approaches and implementation plans.

- Make day-to-day technical decisions without unnecessary escalation to the CTO.

- Establish engineering standards, coding practices and development processes.

- Conduct or oversee code reviews and architectural reviews.

- Identify technical debt and establish practical remediation plans.

- Build the team's ability to solve complex technical problems independently.

2. Solution & Application Architecture

- Own the architecture of complex WordPress and WooCommerce applications.

- Translate business and functional requirements into technical solutions.

- Define application components, data flows, APIs, integrations and dependencies.

- Evaluate architectural alternatives and clearly communicate trade-offs.

- Identify scalability, reliability, security and maintainability risks.

- Create and maintain architecture diagrams and technical documentation.

- Ensure recent features fit into the overall platform architecture rather than becoming isolated implementations.

3. WordPress & WooCommerce

- Design and oversee complex WooCommerce implementations.

- Guide architecture for custom themes, plugins and WooCommerce extensions.

- Establish appropriate approaches for products, attributes, options, pricing, metadata, cart, checkout and order workflows.

- Review third-party plugins and assess their technical suitability and risks.

- Ensure customizations follow WordPress and WooCommerce best practices.

- Guide the team in maintaining upgradeability and long-term maintainability.

4. ShapeDiver & Product Configuration





- Provide technical ownership for ShapeDiver and other product configurator integrations.

- Design the interaction between the configurator, WooCommerce, ERP/pricing systems and order workflows.

- Guide configuration metadata, product options, add-ons and pricing integration.

- Review communication between the configurator and WooCommerce.

- Identify performance, API, browser and integration constraints.

- Ensure the architecture can scale as products, configurations and storefronts increase.

5. Enterprise Integrations

- Architect integrations between WooCommerce and external systems including:
- ERP

- Pricing and inventory systems

- Payment gateways

- CRM systems

- Shipping providers

- Third-party SaaS platforms

- REST APIs

- Product configurators

- Define API contracts, authentication, data mapping, error handling, retries, logging and synchronization strategies.

- Identify integration failure scenarios and appropriate recovery mechanisms.

- Ensure integrations are reliable, observable and maintainable.

6. Technical Planning, Estimation & Delivery

- Work with the BA Lead to understand requirements and identify technical implications.

- Convert functional requirements into technical implementation plans.

- Break large requirements into technical components and development tasks.

- Provide technical estimates and identify dependencies.

- Identify technical risks and blockers before they affect project delivery.

- Work closely with the PM on technical sequencing, dependencies and delivery planning.





- Provide technical status and risk information to the PM.

- Ensure developers have sufficient technical clarity before implementation begins.

7. Performance & Scalability

- Diagnose application, PHP, MySQL, AJAX, caching and infrastructure performance issues.

- Optimize database queries and data access patterns.

- Establish appropriate caching and object-caching strategies.

- Review application architecture for scalability.

- Investigate production performance problems and conduct root-cause analysis.

- Define and monitor meaningful technical performance metrics.

8. Infrastructure, DevOps & Reliability

- Work with infrastructure/hosting teams on application architecture and deployment requirements.

- Understand Linux, PHP-FPM, web servers, MySQL, Redis/object caching, CDN and monitoring.

- Guide development, QA, staging and production environment strategy.

- Establish appropriate Git, branching, CI/CD, deployment and rollback practices.

- Participate in production incident investigation and resolution.

- Improve application reliability, observability and recoverability.

9. Security

- Establish secure development and architecture practices.

- Review authentication, authorization, API security, data protection and input validation.

- Identify application and infrastructure security risks.

- Guide remediation of vulnerabilities.

- Participate in security and architecture reviews.

10. Collaboration with BA, QA & PM

With BA

- Review requirements for technical feasibility.

- Identify missing technical details and edge cases.

- Provide technical alternatives and constraints.

- Help establish technically meaningful acceptance criteria.

With QA

- Identify high-risk areas requiring additional testing.

- Ensure architecture and implementation are testable.

Requirements

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📌 Senior Solutions Architect / Technical Lead (Coimbatore)
🏢 Tara Blooms
📍 Coimbatore