Job Description: Roles We are seeking an experienced Salesforce Commerce Cloud (SFCC) Technical Architect to lead the architecture, design, and evolution of large-scale global eCommerce platforms. The role involves defining scalable, secure, and high-performing commerce solutions, driving modernization initiatives, establishing technical governance, and providing architectural leadership across multi-site and multi-locale implementations. The ideal candidate will have deep SFCC expertise, strong integration architecture experience, and hands-on knowledge of CI/CD, deployment automation, release governance, and code quality practices. Responsibilities • Define end-to-end solution architecture for Salesforce Commerce Cloud implementations and enhancements. • Lead technical design discussions, architecture reviews, and architectural decision-making. • Design scalable storefront, API, integration, and data exchange solutions. • Provide architectural guidance for SFRA, SiteGenesis, OCAPI, SCAPI, and Headless Commerce implementations. • Define integration strategies for payment, OMS, tax, fulfilment, analytics, and customer experience platforms. • Design and govern multi-site and multi-locale commerce solutions for global business operations. • Establish architecture standards, coding practices, technical governance, and code quality processes. • Define and maintain CI/CD pipelines, branching strategies, deployment automation, and release management processes using Bitbucket and equivalent tools. • Implement and monitor code quality standards using SonarQube or equivalent tools and automated quality gates. • Oversee environment management, deployment planning, release readiness, and production rollout activities. • Ensure solutions meet performance, scalability, security, reliability, and maintainability requirements. • Conduct architecture, technical design, and code reviews to ensure compliance with enterprise standards and best practices. • Drive root cause analysis and resolution of complex production, platform, and integration issues. • Lead modernization initiatives involving API-first, Headless Commerce, and composable architecture. • Mentor developers, senior developers, and technical leads while providing technical guidance to distributed teams. • Collaborate with business, product, engineering, and enterprise architecture stakeholders. • Maintain architecture documentation, solution diagrams, and technical standards. Must-Have • 10+ years of overall software engineering and commerce platform experience. • 6+ years of hands-on Salesforce Commerce Cloud (SFCC) experience. • Strong expertise in SFCC architecture, storefront development, and platform capabilities. • Hands-on experience with SFRA, SiteGenesis (legacy components), OCAPI, SCAPI, Service Framework, and Jobs Framework. • Experience designing multi-site and multi-locale commerce architectures. • Strong integration architecture experience, including payment integrations, REST APIs, and web services. • Strong understanding of API-first architecture principles and enterprise integration patterns. • Experience with solution design, architecture governance, technical design reviews, and code reviews. • Strong knowledge of performance optimization, scalability, and security best practices. • Experience defining and governing CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, source code management, branching strategies, and release management. • Experience with Bitbucket, Bitbucket Pipelines or equivalent CI/CD tools, and Managed Runtime deployments. • Experience implementing code quality, security, and governance practices using SonarQube or equivalent tools. • Proven technical leadership, architecture decision-making, and stakeholder management skills. • Excellent communication, presentation, mentoring, and collaboration skills. • Salesforce B2C Commerce Developer Certification. • Salesforce B2C Commerce Architect Certification. Good-to-Have • Experience with Headless Commerce and composable commerce architecture. • Knowledge of Backend for Frontend (BFF) architecture and PWA Kit. • Experience with OMS integrations, preferably Sterling OMS. • Exposure to search and merchandising platforms, analytics, tagging, performance monitoring, and observability tools. • Experience integrating fraud prevention, tax, shipping, and fulfilment platforms. • Understanding of AI-enabled commerce architectures and integration patterns. • Experience evaluating AI-powered personalization, search, recommendations, and customer engagement solutions. • Retail and omnichannel commerce experience. • Experience supporting large-scale global eCommerce modernization initiatives. Location: DGS India - Pune - Indiqube Orchid Brand: Merkle Time Type: Full time Contract Type: Permanent