Senior Liferay Architect & Tech Lead — E‑Commerce Platform

VML/WPP Enterprise Solutions; Poznań; On-site; PLN 219,000 - 284,000; Full time

Job summary

VML/WPP Enterprise Solutions is seeking a hands-on Senior Technical Lead to build a B2B eCommerce platform for a pharmaceutical client. You will lead engineers, set technical standards, and drive architecture with a distributed UK/India team while working with WPP’s managed service for runtime support.

The role emphasizes coding, architecture design, and operational excellence, with a focus on Liferay DXP, REST, and cloud pipelines.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on Java engineering experience.
• Proven Liferay DXP development experience with REST APIs and services.
• Experience with Liferay Commerce or comparable platform.
• Solid integration engineering and messaging patterns.
• Proficient in relational databases and data modelling.
• Hands-on cloud experience and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience leading engineers through code review and direction.
• Ability to hand off to managed service or support teams.
• Observability, logging, monitoring and alerting as part of build.
• Clear written and spoken English; comfortable in a distributed team.

Responsibilities

• Write production code in Java with Liferay customisation and integrations.
• Lead a distributed engineering team, owning technical delivery.
• Set quality bars via code review, testing, and pairing.
• Break architecture into buildable work and challenge design.
• Own build, release pipelines, environments and branching.
• Debug and fix issues across Liferay, integrations and infra.
• Ensure operability by managed service teams with SLAs.
• Support runbooks, monitoring requirements and OPS criteria.
• Escalate technical incidents and perform root-cause analysis.
• Manage technical debt backlog and sprint remediation.
• Collaborate with product owners, QA, and client tech teams.

Skills

Java

Liferay DXP

Liferay Commerce

REST APIs

Cloud & CI/CD

Distributed teams

Observability

English communication

Architecture & design

Database design

Job description

VML/WPP Enterprise Solutions is seeking a hands-on Senior Technical Lead to build a B2B eCommerce platform for a pharmaceutical client. You will lead engineers, set technical standards, and drive architecture with a distributed UK/India team while working with WPP’s managed service for runtime support.

The role emphasizes coding, architecture design, and operational excellence, with a focus on Liferay DXP, REST, and cloud pipelines.