Salesforce Commerce Cloud Tech Lead - SFCC & OMS
The purpose of this role is to lead the technical design, architecture, and implementation of Salesforce Commerce Cloud B2C / SFCC and Order Management System / OMS solutions. The role is responsible for creating scalable, secure, and high-performing commerce architecture while ensuring that all relevant options are explored across time, cost, quality, compliance, and business requirements. The Salesforce Commerce Cloud Tech Lead will oversee the end-to-end delivery of ecommerce solutions for internal and external clients, guiding the solution through architecture reviews, development governance, integration design, implementation, testing and production support. The role requires strong hands-on expertise in SFCC development, OMS integration, ecommerce architecture, API-led integrations and team leadership.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the technical design, development and implementation of Salesforce Commerce Cloud B2C / SFCC solutions.
- Architect scalable ecommerce solutions using SFRA, SiteGenesis, OCAPI, SCAPI, Business Manager, and custom cartridges.
- Lead and guide the implementation of Salesforce Order Management / OMS capabilities, including order capture, orchestration, fulfilment, returns, refunds, cancellations and payment flows.
- Translate business requirements into technical designs, solution architectures and implementation plans.
- Work closely with product owners, business analysts, architects, QA teams, DevOps teams and client stakeholders to deliver high-quality commerce solutions.
- Design and implement integrations between SFCC and third-party systems such as OMS, ERP, CRM, payment gateways, tax engines, fraud management platforms, PIM, DAM, WMS, loyalty platforms, marketing platforms and analytics platforms.
- Lead development teams in building reusable components, cartridges, services, jobs, hooks, controllers, pipelines and APIs.
- Ensure adherence to Salesforce Commerce Cloud best practices, coding standards, security guidelines and performance optimisation standards.
- Review technical designs, code and configuration to ensure quality, maintainability, scalability and compliance.
- Troubleshoot complex SFCC, OMS, integration, performance and production issues.
- Support ecommerce features such as product catalogue, pricing, promotions, campaigns, checkout, payments, customer accounts, search, personalisation and order lifecycle management.
- Collaborate with solution architects to define integration patterns, data flows, security models and deployment strategies.
- Mentor junior developers and senior engineers on SFCC development practices and ecommerce domain concepts.
- Participate in estimation, sprint planning, technical grooming, release planning and delivery governance.
- Support CI/CD implementation, release management, deployment activities and environment management for SFCC projects.
- Evaluate new Salesforce Commerce Cloud and OMS capabilities and contribute to the technical roadmap planning.
- Ensure solutions comply with privacy, security, accessibility and regional ecommerce requirements relevant to the Indian and global markets.
Must Have Skills
- Strong hands-on experience in Salesforce Commerce Cloud B2C / SFCC development.
- Experience as a Tech Lead / Lead Developer / Senior SFCC Developer in ecommerce implementation projects.
- Strong knowledge of SFRA architecture, controllers, models, decorators, middleware, templates, forms, hooks, jobs and custom cartridges.
- Hands-on experience with JavaScript, ISML, HTML, CSS, jQuery, JSON, XML and server-side scripting in SFCC.
- Strong experience with OCAPI, SCAPI, REST APIs, SOAP APIs and integration frameworks.
- Experience integrating SFCC with Order Management Systems / OMS, including order creation, order status, fulfilment, cancellation, returns and refunds.
- Good understanding of ecommerce business processes such as product catalogue management, pricing, promotions, inventory, checkout, payments, shipping, tax, customer management and order lifecycle.
- Experience with Business Manager configuration, including sites, catalogues, price books, promotions, content slots, campaigns, search, jobs, services and custom preferences.
- Strong understanding of SFCC service framework, custom jobs, system objects, custom objects and data replication.
- Experience with payment gateway integrations, third-party APIs and secure checkout implementation.
- Ability to troubleshoot complex issues related to SFCC, integrations, performance, caching and production incidents.
- Good understanding of web security, data privacy, authentication, authorization and secure coding practices.
- Experience with version control tools such as Git, Bitbucket, GitHub or GitLab.
- Experience working in Agile / Scrum delivery models.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to interact with business stakeholders, technical teams and client leadership.
- Ability to lead technical discussions, provide estimates, manage development quality and mentor team members.
Good to Have Skills
- Experience with Salesforce Order Management / Salesforce OMS.
- Experience with Salesforce Service Cloud, Sales Cloud, Marketing Cloud, Data Cloud or Loyalty Management.
- Knowledge of headless commerce architecture and composable commerce patterns.
- Experience with frontend frameworks such as React, Angular, Vue.js or Next.js.
- Knowledge of MuleSoft, middleware platforms or API management solutions.
- Experience integrating SFCC with platforms such as SAP ERP, SAP Commerce, Manhattan OMS, IBM Sterling OMS, Salesforce OMS, Adyen, Stripe, PayPal, Razorpay, Cybersource, Algolia, Bloomreach, Akeneo and Contentful.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or GCP.
- Experience with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, automated deployments and environment management.
- Experience with monitoring and logging tools for ecommerce platforms.
- Knowledge of SEO, web accessibility, page performance, Core Web Vitals and mobile-first commerce design.
- Client-facing experience in solution workshops, discovery sessions, technical demos and architecture reviews.
- Experience working with global retail, fashion, consumer goods, marketplace or D2C ecommerce clients.
Education & Qualification
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering or a related technical field.
- MCA, MSc IT or equivalent postgraduate qualification will be an added advantage.
- Graduates from other disciplines may also be considered if they have strong e-commerce domain knowledge, technical experience, communication skills and analytical ability.
Certifications Preferred
- Salesforce Certified B2C Commerce Developer
- Salesforce Certified B2C Commerce Architect - Good to have
- Salesforce Certified Administrator
- Salesforce Certified Platform Developer I
- Salesforce Certified Platform App Builder
- Good to Have Certifications
- Salesforce Certified Order Management Administrator
- Salesforce Certified JavaScript Developer I
- Salesforce Certified Marketing Cloud Engagement Developer
- Salesforce Certified Data Cloud Consultant
- Salesforce Certified AI Associate
- Salesforce Certified Agentforce Specialist
- MuleSoft Certified Developer - Level 1
- AWS / Azure / GCP Cloud Certification
Experience
- Experience 8 to 12 years of overall IT experience.
- Minimum 5+ years of hands-on Salesforce Commerce Cloud / SFCC experience.
- Minimum 3+ years of experience in a technical lead capacity.
- Experience in at least 2 to 3 full-cycle SFCC implementation projects.
- Experience working on OMS or order lifecycle integrations is highly preferred.
Location: DGS India - Bengaluru - Manyata N1 Block Brand: Merkle Time Type: Full time Contract Type: Permanent
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