Job descriptionRole: SAP Commerce Cloud ConsultantLocation: RemoteDuration: Long TermSkills • Extensive ecommerce experience and the latest capabilities in the space. Exposure and usage of major ecommerce platforms (SAP Commerce Cloud, Magento, Mirakl, Punchouts etc) • Expert knowledge of backend technologies, their strengths and weaknesses and how to get the most out of them e.g. SAP Commerce Cloud, SAP S/4, ElasticSearch/Solr, Redis, MSSQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL • An advocate and enabler of strong quality controls (unit, integration, acceptance testing frameworks and methodologies) using industry leading tooling (Junit, SonarCloud, Jmeter, Webdriver.ioetc) • Proficiency in one or more major cloud platforms, such as Azure (preference), Google Cloud, AWS or others; A deep understanding of cloud native methodologies • Containerization technologies: Docker/ContainerD, Kubernetes (K8S, K3S), container registries and artifact tools (e.g. Artifactory, GCR, ACR, ECR) • An applied knowledge of vertical and horizontal scaling of systems and services including microservice, monolithic, Web/Queue/Worker and distributed systems architectural patterns • Understanding of REST, GraphQLand event-driven architecture principles and best practices and tooling (e.g. Pub/Sub, Kafka etc) • Experience with APM, distributed tracing techniques, monitoring and logging tools like AWS Cloud Watch, EFK/ELK Stack, OpenTelemetry, Dynatrace, Datadog, New Relic etc • A strong understanding and observed application of oAuth2, Spiffe’s, and other Authzand Authnbest practices and tooling • Strong competence in a range of programming languages and associated frameworks e.g. Java, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, SpringBoot, ReactJS, NextJS, TailwindCSSetc • Knowledge of diagramming tools and methodologies (e.g. Miro, Diagrams.net, Figjam, Mermaid.JSetc) • Strong communication and presentation skills • Educated to Degree level in Computer Science or equivalent Responsibilities Help with and Implement the Backend Architectural Artifacts Platform level systems and services (PIM, ERP, Commerce, CMS, Marketing etc), their relationships and interconnectivity Implementation level architecture for secure, cloud-native, scalable & performant backend services (monoliths, microservices, modularization) Contribute to and maintain our org wide Architecture Decision Records Enable the team to live our Backend Engineering Policies, Procedures and Standards • CI/CD practices, environment configuration, feedback loops etc • Backend tooling, frameworks, their application, quality gating and measurement • Technology stack/services consultancy and selection in accordance with technical and quality requirements (scalability, performance, security, compliance) Support our platform & Backend Operational Practices • Drive Ecommerce and Parts Town wide projects • Disaster Resiliency, Recovery and Availability Planning capabilities • Logging strategies for efficient root cause analysis and low MTTR’s • Monitoring, Alerting and on-call policies • Unit, Integration and Acceptance level, API contract testing strategies • Ongoing metrics and dashboarding on backend performance (SLAs, SLOs, SLIs, Golden Signals dashboarding etc) Drive best in class Backend strategies • Our customers need to love what we do for them • Work across disciplines and with other Principal Engineers to evangelize for the needs of the Backend discipline • Knowledge transfer, training, mentoring of backend practices across the engineering org