Technical Architect

Company Overview

CommerceIQ’s AI-powered digital commerce platform is revolutionizing the way brands sell online. Our unified ecommerce management solutions empower brands to make smarter, faster decisions through insights that optimize the digital shelf, increase retail media ROI and fuel incremental sales across the world’s largest marketplaces. With a global network of more than 900 retailers, our end-to-end platform helps 2,200+ of the world’s leading brands streamline marketing, supply chain, and sales operations to profitably grow market share in more than 50 countries. Learn more at commerceiq.ai.

Technical Architect Profile: 

Top consumer brands like Nestle, Kimberly Clark, Natures Bounty, Johnson & Johnson, Mondelez, Kellogg to name a few rely on CommerceIQ suite of products to make efficient business decisions on a daily basis. As a Technical Architect you will be responsible for tech architecture of the platform and our product lines. You will be expected to mentor a team of high performing individual contributors that embody our leadership principles. You will own high quality delivery of product development, driving innovation and engineering excellence across your teams. 

In this role, you will lead and mentor a cross-functional team of Principal Engineers, Software Development Engineers (SDEs), Software Development Engineers in Test (SDE-T). As a leader, you will play a crucial role in building the culture, motivating the team and bringing the best practices across all of these functional areas to ensure that the software we build and the technical processes we implement are quantifiable with respect to quality and always deliver the best for our customers.

The successful candidate will be passionate about building a scalable architecture, drive engineering excellence, obsessed with innovation, relentlessly raise the bar on the quality of what we deliver and influence and drive a high-level tech strategy with the leadership, as well as take a hands-on approach to implementing that strategy.

This role will have you lead and be responsible for the architecture of CIQ suite of products driving a profound impact on how consumer brands sell and optimize their e-commerce presence and help drive millions of dollars in ROI. If you have an entrepreneurial spirit, know how to deliver complex products, are deeply technical, highly innovative, and long for the opportunity to build pioneering solutions to challenging problems, this role is for you. Come help us build  an automated e-commerce optimization suite of products!

Responsibilities:

• Hands-on  technical leader accountable for a large portion of organization architecture, which includes ownership of the design and quality of software built by at least 3 development team
• Segments an architecture to be developed by different teams.
• Works strategically ,Evaluates industry approaches for use internally, Leads design reviews,Builds consensus and aligns teams toward coherent architectural strategies. Drives clarity.
• Sets the technical strategy and standard for engineering excellence within their organization.
• Mentor and guide the engineering team on engineering excellence best practices and own architecting our services for scale.
• Drive innovation within the team to bring engineering driven products that creates differentiators for us in the market.
• Works on high impact,critical, or strategically important initiatives. 
• Mitigates risks caused by complexity(deconstructs problems and systems into straight forward solutions) Handles most escalations.
• Determines where their own and other resources are best applied to accomplish goals. 
• Actively works to remove bottlenecks and Establishes mechanisms for auditing.
• Work with the leadership team to create a forward looking and ambitious tech strategy and influence product and business strategy. Own and deliver the tech strategy as per plan.

What you need to succeed

• 15+  years experience in building, delivering and scaling high quality cloud-based software products. 
• Strong analytical and strategic problem solving skills - exhibited throughout the career
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with demonstrated experience engaging and influencing senior executives. 
• Strong business and technical vision
• 5+ years of advanced expertise in software design and development. Have managed multiple teams with prior experience of managing principal engineers.
• Building enterprise SaaS or B2C applications on cloud using enterprise Java and UI (react / vue /js /node) stack that have seen scale is a must

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other category prohibited by applicable law.