Commerce Domain Architect

5 days ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom Ascendant Technology Full time £60,000 - £120,000 per year


Overview

Ascendant Technology is a fast growing, innovative IBM Premier Business Partner who specialises in providing consulting services to a variety of national and international customers using the IBM software portfolio.

Role and Responsibilities

We are looking to recruit a Senior Domain Architect to join our busy eCommerce Practice in the UK. The successful applicant would be leading architectural decision, design pattern and development of large ecommerce sites and would work closely with the commerce practice leader to develop client relationships. The candidate must be self-motivated and have the ability to lead within a team environment. Excellent communication skills both written and verbal are required. A proven track record of designing and developing high-quality J2EE based e-commerce solutions through the entire development life cycle to successful delivery is essential. The successful applicant would also be involved in:

  • Leading and creating proof of concept implementations for clients
  • Working in a pre-sales capacity to support eCommerce proposals, working closely with the sales team and practice leader
  • Drive architectural decisions and development estimates to support bids
  • Support and perform installation, configuration, troubleshooting, migration, and upgrades of WebSphere Commerce
  • Technically lead the development team to ensure successful delivery to the highest quality and drive adoption of best practices
  • Advise on the assignment of developer tasks, leading technical advice in support to the Project Management team
  • Providing client consultancy around the design and architecture of the eCommerce solution in deliver client presentations

Qualities and Qualifications

Candidates should have proven consulting experience with WebSphere Commerce and with significant WebSphere Commerce application development, including experience of architecting and delivering WebSphere Commerce V7 solutions. A good grounding in SOA and strong understanding of designing integrated eCommerce solutions is essential.

The work will require excellent problem solving skills and the highest professionalism when dealing with clients. Candidates will need to be flexible; working on customer sites, at the company offices or from home as the work requires without travel restrictions. Specific skills of value are:

  • A thorough understanding of the concepts\implications related to building scalable, available, resilient and reliable solutions, with a repeated success of architecting WebSphere Commerce solutions.
  • A good knowledge of industry trends, principles and methodologies across both B2C & B2B
  • Knowledge of competitive solutions to WebSphere Commerce (ATG, Hybris, etc.) is desirable
  • Experience in Agile development practices, Object Oriented Design, J2EE Design Patterns, Database Concepts (SQL, ER Diagrams)
  • Experience in DB2 and/or Oracle database software
  • Experience with WebSphere Application Server, plus Business Integration would be desirable.
  • Experience with Rational Application Developer (RAD) or WSAD
  • Proven experience with Java/J2EE (EJB, JCA, JNDI, JSTL, Struts), Web Development (JavaScript, HTML, CSS) and Web 2.0 concepts (AJAX, Flash)
  • Excellent problem determination and resolution skills
  • Ability to take a variety of roles within a team, providing team leadership and mentoring as required

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