Bekaert Industries - Senior Solution Architect - Adobe Commerce/Magento

ROLE DESCRIPTION:

As Senior Solution Architect for Commercial Solutions (customer experience and customer excellence), you are accountable for proactively and holistically leading or supporting architecture, design, build and operate activities for a portfolio of solutions in response to market disruptive forces, and achieving targeted business outcomes. You are trusted and respected as a thought leader who can influence and persuade business and IT leaders and IT development teams.

Main Responsibilities in domain of Solution Architect are:

- Partnering with the Business area for defining and implementing the Commercial IT roadmap for Digital Commerce (B2B, B2B2C, D2C) product tracks. You will also be responsible in streamlining the product operations in alignment with the business objectives of the organisation.

- Responsible to drive multiple workstreams across the organization and support the "way we enable our customers and partners to search, decide and configure our products" and "way we enable our customers and partners to buy from Bekaert".

- Work collaboratively across business and technology to build good understanding of strategic objectives for commercial products, identifies business outcomes, explores implications, impacts, and risks, and stakeholders' priorities.

- Drive customer experience design, prioritization, and management of product tracks. Engages business stakeholders to identify technology-enabled innovation opportunities.

- Leads the analysis of the current technology environment to detect critical deficiencies, legacy, and technical debt, and implement solutions for improvement.

- Demonstrate deep understanding on the eCommerce potential and requirements and work with the business to develop sound and solid requirements for the eCommerce platform team.

- Provide recommendations and support to improve systems and processes to support eCommerce requirements like product information management, digital marketing, digital analytics, strategy and support of country rollouts and expansion of the platform.

- Support deployment of Bekaert Digital Commerce (B2B, B2B2C, D2C) in countries and functions acting as a trusted partner to business and regional management on eCommerce matters

- Lead eCommerce delivery team with opportunity to learn from Bekaert about innovative B2B / D2C topics and assist in deploying solutions within a global enterprise environment.

ESSENTIAL SKILLS & COMPETENCIES:

Skills:

- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information-technology, system analysis or a related study, or equivalent experience

- 15+ years of overall experience, 6+ years into solution architecture, design and delivery of eCommerce (B2B, B2B2C, D2C) solutions on Adobe Commerce / Magento.

- 6+ years of B2B eCommerce implementation experience in medium to large scale (500+ users) environment

- Experienced in B2B, B2C, multi-site and multi-country, end-to-end implementations of eCommerce applications

- Good knowledge and experience with Adobe Commerce / Magento customization, workflows and integration knowledge with custom APIs.

- Good knowledge and experience with PHP, HTML, JavaScript, jQuery, Prototype, XML, Web-Services/WCF, Web API Restful services.

- Experience with Payment gateways like Adyen, PayPal

- Experience with integration of 3rd party solutions such as Shipping, Tax and Address.

- Experience integrating with Adobe Experience Manager, Adobe Analytics and other components in Adobe Cloud.

- Integration experience with CRM systems, API gateways and Microservices Architecture.

- Understanding of DevOps Automation process in related areas like CI/CD + Release Management + Security - Azure CI-CD stack with integrated tools & technologies, (Azure, Jenkins or AWS), Code quality rules (Checkmarx, Sonar, JSLint, ESLint) and performance monitoring tools like New Relic/App Dynamics for scalable use cases.

- Good understanding of Headless CMS & Headless Commerce architecture. Building aesthetical, functional, and responsive web-based applications.

- Good knowledge and experience in application development, application programming interfaces (APIs), middleware, cloud compute, database management, identity management and security.

- Solid understanding of agile principles and development methodologies and capability of supporting agile teams by providing advice and guidance on opportunities, impact and risks, taking account of technical and architectural debt

- Exposure to multiple, diverse technical configurations, technologies and processing environments (such as inside-out, outside-in)