Adobe Commerce Technical Architect (Contract)

Who We Are:

At VML, we are a beacon of innovation and growth in an ever-evolving world. Our heritage is built upon a century of combined expertise, where creativity meets technology, and diverse perspectives ignite inspiration. With the merger of VMLY&R and Wunderman Thompson, we have forged a new path as a growth partner that is part creative agency, part consultancy, and part technology powerhouse. 

Our global family now encompasses over 30,000 employees across 150+ offices in 64 markets, each contributing to a culture that values connection, belonging, and the power of differences.  Our expertise spans the entire customer journey, offering deep insights in communications, commerce, consultancy, CRM, CX, data, production, and technology. We deliver end-to-end solutions that result in revolutionary work. 

We are VML Enterprise Solutions - a group of talented engineers, tech experts, and creators who combine our passions and contribute to the IT world. You may know us better as Wunderman Thompson Technology – in 2024 we changed our name, but at the same time, we remained a great team of people who deliver our best. We design, build, manage and run complex technology platforms and help our clients to benefit from our work and creativity.   

Adobe Commerce Technical Architect 

Adobe Commerce Technical Architect wanted on a contract basis. 

The successful candidate will be required to lead the application and solution design, assist in solution implementation and be responsible for the technical delivery of complex eCommerce solutions. The candidate will be required to work closely with our clients and our internal delivery teams to ensure our solutions meet the business requirements and are delivered to VML principles, standards and best practices. The candidate should be business focused and have a proven track record of delivery.

What you’ll be doing:

• Producing and owning innovative technical solutions to fit business requirements, following VML delivery approach and ensuring successful delivery of the solution
• Producing and owning architecture design documents covering baseline and target architectures for applications, integrations, data and technology - ensuring the design meets our architecture principles and best practices for the technology platform and justifying the solution design against other options
• Producing technical specifications for lead developers covering mid-low level application, interface and database design, including identifying relevant design patterns and application frameworks
• Communicating technical architectures and designs to internal teams, including developers and testers
• Communicating directly with the customer on all aspects of the technical design, including running design workshops, participating in architecture reviews, providing recommendations and reasons for key design decisions and explaining complex technical designs to non-technical stakeholders
• Communicating directly with 3rd parties to agree designs, especially in the integration domain
• Identifying impacts of a given solution/architecture and challenging business requirements or suggesting alternate solutions where necessary
• Identifying and managing key stakeholders of the architecture change
• Working collaboratively with other architects and lead developers to share knowledge and solutions
• Estimating the design and implementation effort of large-scale and complex ecommerce solutions and assisting in the delivery, migration and go-live planning
• Ownerships of the technical delivery, ensuring and demonstrating the quality of the deliverable, from code quality through to performance, scalability and security of the solution
• Leading new application/technical architects in all aspects of the above
• Keeping informed of technology changes (e.g. trends, software updates, platform updated, 3rd party solutions) and reviewing these for recommendation into new projects or existing clients

What we want from you:

• Have a deep understanding of application architecture and design across the application and integration domains, along with a good understanding of data architecture and design, including relational database design
• Extensive experience of working with Magento / Adobe Commerce,
• Extensive design experience in complex enterprise scale eCommerce environments
• You will be able to demonstrate knowledge of software development methodology using PHP and Adobe Commerce, full project lifecycle and a structured approach to design
• Experience / knowledge of modern design approaches including best use of eCommerce platforms, componentized architectures, micro-services, web components, cloud etc
• Proven technical leadership skills within an internal team and within a client facing environment.
• A thorough understanding of web technologies, including client-server architecture, security (e.g. encryption), and caching strategies, with a mind for capacity and performance in all designs
• Strong understanding of MySQL
• Excellent written and oral communication and interpersonal skills

You will collaborate with our UK project team, so we’ll need you to be available until 18:00 PL

If you know some of this, even better:

• Certified as an Adobe Commerce Architect
• Certified as an Adobe Commerce Developer (Expert level)
• Elasticsearch
• Redis
• Varnish
• RabbitMQ

What we can offer you:

Alongside the opportunity to work with some of the most exciting brands around the world, we’ll also prioritise your career development and help you grow your skills. We’ll empower you to make a difference, allow you to be yourself, and respect who you are.

Our personality and behaviours: We believe that we are what we do, not just what we say. Our shared values and behaviours show how to bring the VML Enterprise Solution's culture to life through the actions we all take every day:

• Connect Meaningfully
• Inspire Creatively
• Include Purposefully
• Approach Positively

Our brilliant, talented people are what makes VML Enterprise Solutions what we are. That’s why we look for people who go beyond and always push our thinking to be better than yesterday.

Please note that this job is a full-time position located in Poland, but the selection process will be conducted in English. 

Please send over your CV in English. 

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In compliance with Polish regulations, VML Enterprise Solutions is committed to fostering a transparent and ethical work environment. We encourage reporting of any potential irregularities or misconduct. For detailed information on our whistle-blower policy and reporting procedures, please refer to our dedicated document.

WPP (VML Enterprise Solutions) is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to characteristics. We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers. 

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