Ecommerce Solution Architect

Kensium; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 6,600,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Large-scale projects

Modern platforms

Career growth

Work-life balance

Competitive compensation

Job summary

Kensium in Hyderabad, India, is seeking a Technical Solution Architect with 7–12 years of experience in Ecommerce engineering. You will design, lead and deliver scalable, secure ecommerce solutions across Shopify, BigCommerce, and headless architectures.

You will collaborate with business stakeholders, product, UX and engineering teams to translate requirements into robust technical solutions, define data flows, integrations and deployment strategies.

Qualifications

• Architectural leadership for ecommerce platforms across Shopify, BigCommerce, and headless setups.
• Experience creating solution architecture documents, data flows, and API specs.
• Proven ability to translate business requirements into technical designs.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end ecommerce architecture design and delivery.
• Guide cross-functional teams on best practices and patterns.
• Ensure security, performance, and compliance in solutions.
• Oversee integrations with ERP, CRM, OMS, PIM, CMS.

Skills

E-commerce architecture

Technical leadership

Client communication

Stakeholder management

Cloud-native architectures

API-driven design

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Shopify

BigCommerce

Headless Commerce

Shopify Liquid

Shopify Storefront API

Shopify Admin API

REST APIs

GraphQL

ERP integrations

CRM integrations

CI/CD

Job description

• We are seeking a Technical Solution Architect with 7 to 12 years of experience in Ecommerce engineering, with at least 3-5 years of hands-on experience in Shopify plus or BigCommerce.
• The Architect will design, lead, and deliver scalable, secure, and high-performing ecommerce solutions. The ideal candidate will have strong architectural experience across one or more modern commerce platforms, including Shopify, BigCommerce, and/or Headless Commerce architectures.
• This role requires close collaboration with business stakeholders, product owners, UX teams, and engineering teams to translate business requirements into well-defined, robust technical solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Architecture Design: Lead the design and implementation of end-to-end ecommerce architecture aligned with business goals and scalability requirements.
• Agnostic Architecture: Ability to efficiently lead solution design across one or more platforms including - Shopify, BigCommerce, and/or Headless Commerce ecosystems
• Technical Leadership:
• Provide leadership in selecting the right tools, technologies, frameworks, and E-Commerce Platforms
• Guide development teams on best practices, coding standards, and architectural patterns
• Support cloud-native, API-first and composable architectures
• Participate in technical reviews, estimations, pre-sales bids and solution proposals
• Provide architectural governance throughout the project lifecycle
• Solution Implementation: Define system architecture, integrations, data flows, and deployment strategies. Produce solution architecture documents, data flow diagrams and API Specifications for complex omni-channel E-commerce requirements.
• Integrations: Design and oversee implementation of complex E-Commerce Omni-channel integrations including:
• ERP, CRM, OMS, PIM, CMS
• Payment gateways, tax, shipping, and fraud solutions
• Optimization: Ensure high-performance, security, reliability, and compliance standards are met.
• Collaboration: Work closely with the pre-sales, design, product, and development teams to ensure seamless execution of E-commerce projects.
• Compliance & Security: Ensure that all E-commerce solutions comply with industry standards, best practices, and legal requirements including security, data-privacy and payment processing.

Required Skills & Experience:

• 7+ years of experience in E-Commerce solutions
• Ability to design and implement scalable enterprise-grade E-commerce solutions
• Experience in creating solution architecture documents, data flow diagrams, and API Specifications
• Experience working with global, multi-brand, or multi-region ecommerce implementations
• Strong Client communication skills and English Language proficiency.
• Hands-on architectural experience with one or more of the following:
• Shopify / Shopify Plus
• BigCommerce
• Headless Commerce architectures (e.g., custom headless setups, or headless implementations using Shopify/BigCommerce)
• Strong understanding of:
• Microservices and API-driven architectures
• REST/GraphQL APIs
• ERP integrations o Shopify Liquid and online store 2.0
• Shopify Storefront API and Admin API
• Shopify Functions & Checkout Extensibility
• React.js, Next.js and Node.js (preferred for headless setups)
• Version Control Systems
• Performance optimization and monitoring tools
• Experience with both frontend and backend E-commerce technologies
• Strong knowledge of E-commerce domain concepts (catalog, checkout, payments, promotions, order management)
• Ability to translate business requirements into technical architecture
• Excellent communication, collaboration and stakeholder management skills

Nice to Have:

• Familiarity with modern frontend frameworks (React, Next.js, Vue, etc.)
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, DevOps, and containerization
• Relevant Certifications in E-commerce platforms or cloud technologies

What We Offer:

• Opportunity to work on complex, large-scale E-commerce solutions
• Exposure to modern commerce platforms, technologies and architectures
• Collaborative, growth-oriented and inclusive environment
• Competitive compensation and benefits package
• Learning, development and career growth opportunities
• Work-life Balance & Flexible working arrangements