Magento Backend Architect

Mindsprint; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 2,200,000 - 3,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Mindsprint is seeking a Senior Technical Architect specializing in E-Commerce. This role entails driving the strategic technical direction across our Omnichannel platforms, ensuring high availability and scalability. The ideal candidate will have at least 12 years of experience, with a minimum of 5 years as an architect on an enterprise-class eCommerce platform.

The role requires expertise in RESTful APIs, data optimization, and cloud-based CI/CD principles. Strong preference for candidates experienced with Magento 2 / Adobe Commerce.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience with 5+ years as an architect or technical lead.
• Expertise in delivering solutions for multiple countries and currencies.
• Experience deploying in cloud-hosted environments with CI/CD principles.

Responsibilities

• Establish subject matter expertise of omnichannel platforms.
• Collaborate with business and IT leadership to align on goals.
• Drive adoption of DevSecOps principles for environment automation.

Skills

Architectural design

RESTful APIs

GraphQL

Data repositories

Performance optimization

Identity management

Cloud environments

Messaging architectures

Tools

Magento 2 / Adobe Commerce

Figma

Microsoft Azure

Job description

The Senior Technical Architect, E-Commerce, will be responsible for identifying, defining, and driving strategic technical direction and best practices across the delivery and operations of our Omnichannel platforms and integrations. This individual functions as a trusted IT advisor across multiple disciplines, including (but not limited to) research, use case definition, data design and governance, user experience, application design, tooling, prototyping, integration/APIs, environment/workload management, quality, sizing and scaling, orchestration, monitoring, diagnostics, high availability/continuity, documentation, change control, release management, and mentoring other technical resources.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

• Establish and maintain subject matter expertise of omnichannel platforms and their business/information/technical architectures
• Collaborate with business and IT leadership/influencers to understand core needs and strategic direction, and ultimately align with mission/vision/values/goals.
• Collaborate with architects and other technical thought leadership to align on principles, patterns, standards, and their communication to the broader IT audience.
• Lead or participate in architectural spikes
• Provide analysis, expertise, perspective, and recommendations regarding potential technology acquisitions
• Lead full-stack platform and integration design efforts relative to security, performance, scalability, resilience, extensibility, and enterprise best practices.
• Identify and drive optimization in areas of cross-domain impact, risk, performance, inability to scale, inconsistency, excessive complexity, or relevant technical debt
• Drive adoption to and continuous improvement with DevSecOps principles (environment automation and CI/CD)

REQUIRED SKILLS/EXPERIENCE

• Overall 12+ years of experience with 5+ years as an architect or technical lead over an enterprise-class eCommerce platform
• Expertise in delivering experiences for multiple countries, languages, currencies, and brands
• Expertise with RESTful APIs and GraphQL
• Expertise interacting with both relational and unstructured data repositories (ex: MySQL, MongoDB, data lakes)
• Expertise in troubleshooting and optimizing data, application, and integration performance (ex: caching, tracing, monitoring, and logging)
• Experience working with identity management and application security/authentication frameworks
• Experience leveraging content delivery networks (ex: Cloudflare, Imperva, Akamai)
• Experience integrating with enterprise business platforms (ex: CRM/ERP/WMS)
• Experience deploying and managing assets in cloud-hosted runtime environments using CI/CD principles and automation
• Experience with message-based pub/sub integration architectures
• Ability to estimate work effort/complexity/cost with predictable accuracy
• Ability to foster collaborative relationships through clear, frequent, and credible communication using the appropriate media and levels of detail for the situation

PREFERRED SKILLS/EXPERIENCE

• Strong preference to have worked directly with Magento 2 / Adobe Commerce
• Headless commerce
• Mulesoft
• Token CSS and Post CSS
• Figma and Storybook
• Microsoft Azure or other cloud workload hosting