Role description

HCL WebSphere Commerce Architect

Level Architect contract

Job Description Qualifications

Job Summary

Own solution architecture for B2B eCommerce platform across HCL Commerce WebSphere Commerce WCS v8 Nextjs storefront and Spring Boot services during dualrun Translate business and product intent into designs that keep the legacy commerce engine healthy while journeys move onto the modern stack Provide ReadytoServe architectural leadership standards integration patterns NFRs and design review Handson you will still write and review design artifacts and as needed code this is not a slideonly role

Major Tasks Responsibilities and Key Accountabilities

Define and maintain target and transitional architecture for multitier B2B commerce WCS store store data business logic Commerce tools Spring Boot APIs and Nextjs React storefront

Lead design of dualrun strangler patterns which journeys stay on WCS which move to Nextjs services how routing session catalog cart and order stay consistent and how cutover and rollback work

Produce and review solution designs sequenceintegration diagrams and interface contracts RESTSOAP Identify reusability performance security and operability issues before build

Partner with product delivery leads QA DevOps and enterpriseintegration teams on requirements data conversion integration testing and cutover

Set coding and design standards for Commerce customization Spring Boot services and Nextjs storefront so squads do not fork three incompatible styles

Guide integration with backend systems ERP payments search CMS punchout customer purchasing systems without treating Preview authoring and Runtime customerfacing Commerce as the same environment

Review designs and PRs for Commerce services and storefront unblock the hardest crosslayer defects at root cause

Advise on capacity caching search and failure modes for a hightraffic B2B storefront

Mentor senior engineers and leads make architecture decisions explicit context options consequences so they survive contractor turnover





Identify key barriers and apply structured problemsolving to complex multisystem situations

Skills and Qualifications

Required

Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or related discipline or equivalent work experience

10 years professional software engineering 5 years in an architect or equivalent principalstaff design role on large commerce or similarly complex multitier systems

8 years expertise in HCL Commerce andor IBM WebSphere Commerce WCS 8x store customization commandstasks tools catalogorderuserorganization flows and backend integration v8 experience is the hiring bar later Commerce versions are a plus not a substitute

8 years Java J2EE and OOD on large IT systems WebSphere Application Server strongly preferred

5 years Spring Spring MVC with handson Spring Boot architecture service boundaries APIs resilience auth not Spring on a rsum only

5 years web services REST and SOAP ability to specify contracts others can implement

Nextjs and React production architecture experience routing data fetching BFFAPI integration storefront performance TypeScript preferred

5 years source control Git required

Experience architecting B2B commerce punchout orguser models contractpricing complexity preferred

Experience with Agile delivery using Atlassian tools Jira BitbucketGit Confluence

Excellent written and verbal communication with engineers and nonengineers

Preferred

Headless composable commerce APIfirst storefront BFF packaged capabilities MuleSoft or similar iPaaS

Search Solr or equivalent cache Redis or equivalent CMSdriven storefront Optimizely or equivalent alongside a commerce engine





Cloud GKE Kubernetes or equivalent for storefront and Spring Boot WASIHS for Commerce

Security PCI adjacent payment flows and session identity across legacy and modern storefronts

Prior dualrun or largescale commerce migration

What this role is not

Not enterprise architecture detached from Commerce You must have shipped WCS HCL Commerce not only drawn boxes around it

Not a greenfieldonly Nextjs or Spring Boot architect

Not IBM WebSphere Portal or generic Java EE without Commerce

Not a peoplemanager of record that sits with the Lead delivery manager you own technical direction

Skills

Mandatory Skills : HCL Commerce, SpringBoot, WebSphere

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