SAP Commerce Architect

Photon; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Photon in Mountain View, CA, is seeking a Principal Hybris Architect to lead SAP Commerce Cloud (Hybris) initiatives, define the technical strategy for our global e‑commerce platform, and act as the primary technical authority across SAP, ERP, WMS, and 3PL integrations.

You will own the end‑to‑end architecture, drive design reviews, ensure scalable, resilient pipelines (REST/GraphQL, Kafka, and messaging), and collaborate with product and operations to align complex business goals.

Qualifications

• 12+ years in software engineering with at least 5+ years in a Lead/Principal Architect capacity.
• 6+ years of deep architectural experience with SAP Commerce Cloud (Hybris) (Core Platform, Backoffice, Order Management Services, Solr search, Cronjobs).
• Demonstrated track record architecting enterprise integrations with SAP and ERP systems.

Responsibilities

• Own the overarching technical architecture connecting digital storefronts, Commerce Core, Middleware, ERP, and Logistics engines.
• Lead Architectural Review, evaluations, define coding standards, enforce integration design patterns, and ensure platform scalability and maintainability.
• Collaborate with Product, Operations, and Engineering leadership to align technical capabilities with complex business initiatives.
• Design robust, bi-directional integration pipelines between SAP Commerce Cloud and SAP systems.
• Define enterprise messaging standards using synchronous (REST /GraphQL) and asynchronous mechanisms for high-throughput data exchange.
• Architect multi-node order routing, order splitting logic (multi-warehouse / drop-ship), and fulfillment prioritization rules based on real-time cost and proximity.

Skills

Java

Spring Framework

Event-Driven Architecture

API Design

Cloud & Kubernetes

SAP Commerce Cloud

Architectural Leadership

GraphQL REST

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

SAP Commerce Cloud

Kafka

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

We are hiring Hybris Architect to join our Digital Engineering team.

About Us:

For the past 20 years, we have powered many Digital Experiences for the Fortune 500. Since 1999, we have grown from a few people to more than 4000 team members across the globe that are engaged in various Digital Modernization. Our current focus and innovation in Digital Hyper expansion TM offers nearly limitless opportunities for career growth. For a brief 1-minute video about us, you can check out https://youtu.be/uJWBWQZEA6o.

Role: Hybris Architect (SAP Commerce & Fulfillment)

Location: Mountain View, CA

Role Overview We are looking for a Principal Solutions Architect - SAP Commerce & Fulfillment to define, design, and lead the technical areas in our global E-commerce platform. In this role, you will act as the primary technical authority across our digital commerce stack, leading architecture decisions across SAP Commerce Cloud (Hybris), SAP and ERP ecosystems, WMS, and 3rd Party Logistics partners.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the overarching technical architecture connecting digital storefronts, Commerce Core, Middleware, ERP, and Logistics engines.
• Lead Architectural Review, evaluations, define coding standards, enforce integration design patterns, and ensure platform scalability and maintainability.
• Collaborate with Product, Operations, and Engineering leadership to align technical capabilities with complex business initiatives.
• Design robust, bi-directional integration pipelines between SAP Commerce Cloud and SAP systems
• Define enterprise messaging standards using synchronous (REST /GraphQL) and asynchronous mechanisms for high-throughput data exchange.
• Architect multi-node order routing, order splitting logic (multi-warehouse / drop-ship), and fulfillment prioritization rules based on real-time cost and proximity.
• Ensure platform stability during peak global traffic events (handling tens of thousands of orders per minute) through distributed caching, asynchronous queueing, and database sharding.
• Design resilient integration boundaries with circuit breakers, idempotent retry policies, and zero data loss event handling during downstream ERP or 3PL outages.

Requirements & Qualifications

• 12+ years in software engineering with at least 5+ years in a Lead/Principal Architect capacity.
• 6+ years of deep architectural experience with SAP Commerce Cloud (Hybris) (Core Platform, Backoffice, Order Management Services, Solr search, Cronjobs).
• Demonstrated track record architecting enterprise integrations with SAP and ERP systems.
• Technical & System Design Skills:
• Mastery of Java, Spring Framework / Spring Boot, and reactive programming models.
• Deep expertise in Event-Driven Architecture utilizing Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, or AWS/GCP messaging services.
• Solid grounding in API-first, headless commerce architectures (Spartacus, Angular/TypeScript storefronts, GraphQL, REST).
• Strong database modeling skills across relational (SQL, Oracle, SAP HANA) and NoSQL/In-Memory databases (Redis, Memcached).
• Experience architecting and integrating LLM/GenAI applications into production workflows (e.g., LangChain, LlamaIndex, OpenAI/Gemini APIs, RAG architectures, Agentic frameworks).
• Familiarity with Vector Search/Databases (e.g., Pinecone, pgvector) and hybrid search implementations.
• Experience designing inference pipelines with strict latency, rate-limiting, and cost-control constraints.
• Demonstrated expertise architecting Unified Commerce Platforms (UCP) connecting unified carts, and managing Checkout process.

Education Qualification:

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred / Nice-to-Have

• Certified SAP Commerce Cloud Enterprise Architect or SAP Integration Specialist.
• Experience with cloud-native migrations (GCP, AWS, Azure), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and modern CI/CD orchestration