Technical Architect, eCommerce - Remote

Company: Conn's HomePlus
Location: Conroe
Posted on: June 19, 2022

Job Description:

Job Description

You may not know Conn's HomePlus, but you should.

We recently posted our 3 strongest quarters in our 130+ year history and with our new CEO, Chandra Holt, we have big plans for growth. We are a specialty retailer of home goods, including furniture, appliances and consumer electronics, with a mission to elevate home life to home love . With more than 150 stores across 15 states and online at Conns.com , our over 4,500 employees strive to help all customers create a home they love through access to high-quality products, next-day delivery and personalized financing.

Overview: Incumbent will be responsible for designing and developing customer facing solutions as part of a high performing team focused on growing the eCommerce business. S/he will mentor team members in Big Commerce / Magento architecture, development and best practices.

Key Duties & Responsibilities: The Technical Architect, eCommerces responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
Review Business requirement, participate in technical analysis and find best feasible solutions as per requirement
Conduct design review with Leads, Business Stockholders to finalize the solution
Create High level and low level designs and review with Technical teams
Coordinate with offshore/onshore teams to finalize design
Create best practice and coding standards process documents review with team
Participate code reviews, code quality checks meetings ensure no potential bottlenecks
Integrate code quality check tools with CI/CD pipelines and generate report to share with technical teams
Coordinate with third party vendors, service providers technical teams ensure integration architecture proper
Participate system integration testing, UAT testing ensure new features implemented as per the approved design
Create database schemas and ER diagrams as per requirement

Required Experience
Education: Bachelor's plus 10 years of progressive work experience or Masters plus 7 years of progressive work experience.
6+ years experience in architecting /solution designing, developing and delivering eCommerce solutions
At least the past 3 years experience in Big Commerce / Magento Commerce and object-oriented technologies
5+ years experience in establishing and managing development standards, CI/CD, Branching and merging
Accomplishes results by maximizing out-of-the-box features and minimizing custom development.
Experience working as a team player with Project Manager and meet aggressive deadlines
Ability to multi-task effectively across multiple projects /tracks
PHP coding experience and the Gitflow (or similar) workflow
Expertise with database Concepts (SQL, ER Diagrams)
Experience with Cloud platforms (Amazon, Azure) and Blue-Green deployments
Familiarity with modern Search / SEO methodologies
Integrating eCommerce Applications with third party applications
Implemented monitoring, alerts to build self -healing systems that measure and grow KPIs
experience within a retail organization

Preferred Experience
Integrating through Mulesoft to AS400
Angular / React / PWA / JavaScript
Web Development (JSP, JSTL, JavaScript, HTML, CSS)
Digital Marketing technologies
OMS experience and order workflows
Service Oriented Architectures

Skills & Abilities
Candidates must have demonstrated past experience in analyzing complex technical eCommerce situations, anticipating potential problems and future trends, and assessing opportunities and risks while developing and implementing plans and creating solution deliverables.
Candidates must have the ability to be hands on as well as lead whiteboard sessions.
As a leader in the team, the eCommerce architect guides other professionals and assumes overall technical responsibility for the successful design, solution construction, implementation and system integration of eCommerce projects.

Conns HomePlus is an equal opportunity employer.

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