Position: Technical Director, Commerce
Company: gointeractive.co
Category: Lead
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper
Published: 2023-01-01T00:00:00+02:00

We are seeking a Technical Director with a deep background in Commerce to join our growing team in the Consumer Business Unit.
As Technical Director, you will work to understand the challenges, needs of clients and create and drive technical solutions and roadmap to support a client's business goals

Our  client  boasts a long-standing track record of ideating, innovating, and implementing award-winning solutions and driving best-in-class results. Client's success starts with hiring the right people, in the right roles, at the right time to strategize, analyze, design, engineer, and market for some of the world’s biggest brands.
 
We are seeking a **Technical Director** with a deep background in Commerce to join our growing team in the Consumer Business Unit. As Technical Director at our team, you will work to understand the challenges, needs, and constraints of clients and create and drive a technical solution and roadmap to support a client's business goals.  You will serve as a client's technical partner throughout an engagement. Great candidates will be able to direct the design of large-scale solutions from conception to completion, mentor and inspire the technical team, and lead client workshops around technical solutions. The best candidate will demonstrate the ability to define and solve the most challenging technical problems and work in a fast-paced environment across multiple clients.  
 
**Role and Responsibilities**
Serving as a consulting technologist for our clients - working with clients to better understand their problems and goals, recommending possible solutions, and building consensus around architecture and digital capabilities
Capable of architecting and driving technical solutions in the retail or B2C/D2C space for our clients - including product development, platforms selection/implementation, data management/flow, roll-out strategies and integrations typically found in enterprise-level Commerce implementations 
Full end to end assessment of the current technical architecture and downstream integrations like OMS, WMS, RMS, Marketplace as well as:
- Magento backend assessment
- Front End (Product Landing Pages, Layout, Item Search) 
- User account and profile (Customer Data Management, Login, PII)
- Headless e-commerce and API integration.
- Checkout and Payment
- Order Management
- Order Broker (Sourcing, Fulfillment) 
- Digital Asset Services (item images, copy)
- Warehouse Management
- Last mile (customer delivery software)
- Microservices (will partner with Microservices Arch on our end)
Evaluate current Technology Stack/Platform, looking at all technologies across e-commerce modules
Technical Scalability Assessment, ensuring all functions and process can scale according to business needs and aspirations
Evaluate market for best of breed e-commerce modules, making a technology recommendation based on current processes and future vision
Leading technical workshops or other discussions with clients and team members
Providing technical oversight during implementation and owning technical delivery across all development workstreams
Collaborating with peers in other competencies, such as Strategy, Marketing and XD, to help define solutions for our clients
Collaborating with peers across multiple technology disciplines 
Helping clients define measures and quantify the value of an architecture/digital platform
Leverage expertise across the technical team to identify optimal solutions for our clients
Contributing thought leadership to the larger tech community 
Define and model our culture and atmosphere, quality of work, and growth for the next generation of team members

**Preferred Qualifications**
BS/BA Computer Science or related fields or self-taught programmer
A minimum of 5 years of experience driving and delivering technical solutions involving complex Commerce challenges with medium-to-large cross-disciplinary teams
5+ years of experience architecting solutions and helping a team deliver against an architectural vision 
5+ years of experience building and leading teams, and mentoring and coaching direct reports
Experience designing solutions using modern architectural approaches and concepts -  such as microservices, API-first, cloud-native and composable
Experience with and understanding of major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), their benefits, and their offerings
Systems integration experience - including API design/development/management and familiarity with middleware solutions, such as iPaaS
Familiarity with DevOps best practices - including configuration management, IaC and approaches/tools for CI/CD
Experience integrating Commerce platforms to an OMS, CRM and ERP required
Experience with data management platforms (such as PIM, MDM, etc.) and data governance is a plus
Experience with B2B Commerce platforms is a plus
Consulting/agency experience is preferred
Passion for technology and leveraging technical solutions to support business objectives
Ability to lead engagements to provide a strong voice for Technology within blended teams
Understanding of and experience with Agile methodology
Experience in estimating, planning, and staffing project work
Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English
Ability to join the company in a short time
Must be willing to travel 50% of the time
Excellent communicator with all levels of leadership, management, and staff to achieve desired outcomes and build strong alliances and relationships
Clear, charismatic and compelling in client-facing situations

**We offer**
Competitive compensation, based on experience
The opportunity to contribute to high-impact, high-visibility, and high-quality software products with hundreds of thousands of daily users
A culture dedicated to professional growth, with continuing education enrichment
Possibility to work remotely
Medical insurance
An open, transparent and fun work culture
Career and professional growth
Unlimited paid vacation and other social benefits