Commerce Architect

About the role

We are looking for a senior Commerce Architect to lead the design and delivery of enterprise CMS and digital commerce platforms in Dubai. The role requires 15+ years of experience in architecting scalable, secure and composable commerce solutions across B2B and B2C environments.

Key responsibilities

• Lead the architecture and delivery of enterprise CMS and digital commerce platforms.
• Define end‑to‑end solution architecture for content management, eCommerce, digital experience and omnichannel platforms.
• Design scalable, secure headless and composable commerce solutions.
• Provide architectural leadership across CMS, commerce, APIs, integrations, personalization, analytics and digital experience.
• Define content models, information architecture, taxonomy, workflows and delivery strategies.
• Design and govern integrations using REST APIs, GraphQL, micro‑services and API gateways.
• Evaluate and recommend CMS and commerce platforms based on business and technical requirements.
• Drive platform modernization, transformation and migration initiatives.
• Ensure solutions meet enterprise requirements for scalability, performance, availability, security and maintainability.
• Establish architecture standards, design patterns, governance and best practices.
• Collaborate with DevOps teams on CI/CD, cloud deployment, automation and platform operations.
• Lead technical discussions, architecture reviews, POCs and solution presentations.

Required profile

• Excellent communication and presentation skills with strong executive stakeholder management.
• Proven ability to interact directly with UAE clients and senior business stakeholders.
• Strong consulting, problem‑solving capabilities and experience leading architecture teams.
• Experience delivering enterprise transformation programs in digital commerce.

Required skills

• Adobe Experience Manager (AEM)
• Sitecore
• Optimizely
• Shopify Plus
• SAP Commerce / SAP Hybris
• Headless and composable commerce
• REST APIs and GraphQL
• Microservices architecture
• API integration and management
• Content modeling and personalization
• SEO and digital analytics
• Azure and AWS cloud architecture
• DevOps / CI‑CD
• Solution architecture and governance
• MACH architecture
• PIM, DAM, CDP and search platforms (Elasticsearch, Solr)
• Docker and Kubernetes
• Event‑driven architecture and Kafka
• Enterprise security and identity frameworks