Job Description
Job Title: Enterprise/Application Solutions Architect (Retail and Ecommerce with Google Cloud Platform)
Location: Remote (PST Time zone)
Duration: Long Term
Job Description:
Key Responsibilities
1. Architecture Operating Pillars
Advisory
- Define enterprise-wide architecture standards, principles, and guardrails.
- Create and maintain reference architectures, patterns, and best practices.
- Drive clarity on system boundaries, data flows, and integration strategies using recognized modeling frameworks.
Enablement
- Support engineering teams through architecture co-creation, design guidance, and handshake reviews.
- Provide hands-on direction during solutioning, technical spikes, and platform migrations.
- Mentor engineering teams to improve architectural maturity across the organization.
2. Solution Architecture Leadership
- Lead vendor evaluations based on non-functional requirements (performance, scalability, latency, security, cost).
- Define canonical data models, integration patterns, and data governance guidelines.
- Establish API contracts, including versioning, lifecycle guidelines, and boundary definitions.
- Create and maintain architectural artifacts such as: C4 model diagrams
- Application/system landscape diagrams
- Sequence diagrams & process flows
- Integration architecture maps
- Partner closely with enterprise architecture teams to maintain alignment with global standards.
- Provide architectural mentoring to solution engineers and tech leads.
3. Architecture Governance
- Two-Layer Governance Model
- Enterprise Architecture Board Owns global standards, long-term architectural principles, and strategic direction.
- Digital Architecture Review Board (DARB)
- Weekly solution design reviews.
- Ensures compliance with standards, best practices, and platform strategy.
- Decision Documentation
- Use Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) to document: Decision context
- Options considered
- Chosen approach
- Impacts and risks
- Future considerations
4. Target Architecture Direction
Service-Based Architecture Evolution
- Drive transition to a service-based abstraction layer to decouple front-end applications and backend platforms.
- Ensure business logic (payments, inventory, promotions, rollback handling, etc.) resides in independent services, not in Salesforce, frontend apps, or monolithic platforms.
- Platform Independence
- Define stable API contracts that allow: Plug-and-play of CDP, loyalty, commerce, payments, or other platforms.
- Avoiding vendor lock-in.
- Future scalability and modular evolution.
- Current Gaps & Transition Support
- Guide selection and architecture design for: Customer Data Platform (CDP)
- Loyalty platform
- Reduce dependency on Salesforce as an orchestration layer.
- Introduce a new services framework to support future business growth and technical flexibility.
5. Technical Expectations
E-Commerce & Digital Architecture
- Strong understanding of:
- Product catalog & taxonomy
- Cart & checkout flows
- Order lifecycle & fulfillment orchestration
- Payments, fraud, and promotions
- Customer accounts, loyalty, and identity
- Experience designing scalable digital platforms for high-traffic and peak-load seasons.
- Cloud & Infrastructure
- Experience with modern cloud ecosystems: Google Cloud Platform (Google Cloud Platform)
- Cloudflare (edge networks, workers, security)
- Comfortable defining infrastructure patterns that support reliability, performance, and observability.
- Platform Expertise (Nice to Have)
- Hands-on exposure to: Salesforce Commerce / Salesforce Platform
- Shopify headless/composable setups
- Not mandatory but beneficial for understanding integration boundaries.
Qualifications
- 12+ years in architecture roles within digital, retail, or B2C technology environments.
- Proven experience in enterprise architecture, solution architecture, and platform modernization.
- Strong knowledge of integration patterns (event-driven, messaging, REST, graph, async).
- Experience working with product, engineering, security, and business teams.
- Excellent communication and executive storytelling skills.
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