Technical Architect,  Ecommerce ATG Platform

Amplifi Commerce is a leading provider of multi-channel commerce and interactive marketing services enabling clients to navigate and thrive in today’s digital economy. Our ecommerce and ebusiness consultancy provides business strategy, digital marketing, technology implementations and operational management solutions that make a measurable difference to brands across the globe.

The Technical Architect will interact closely with various technical leads and project managers and will be looked upon as a technical authority on this portion of the platform.   You will identify and prioritize requirements to design new features, improve existing product functionality and to improve performance.   Must have a passion for deploying elegant business oriented architecture solutions that can be easily implemented but scale well and unlock business value. We need our Architect to be a business oriented thinker that looks to innovate for business value in the course of normal implementation.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership throughout the life-cycle of eCommerce application development projects
• Solution architecting, design, development and roll out of ATG based ecommerce solutions
• Performance Tuning of ATG Applications
• Evaluate and anticipate the impact of technical solutions on related projects
• Evaluate projects and drive outcomes based on the impact of hardware or software upgrades on new and existing applications
• Understand interrelationships and the impact of systems and applications upon the enterprise wide technical environment
• Develop and maintain application architecture standards, policies and procedures
• Work with business user teams to discuss, recommend, explain, and reconcile desired functionality and technology capabilities.
• Ability to think strategically and drive development strategies and tactics that produce faster turnaround on features and also world class performance
• Design for high performance and scalability in order to ensure that the application is highly scalable and can support high volumes of traffic
• Help diagnose and resolve escalated production performance and stability issues.
• Work with QA team to set the load testing standards and participate in load testing to find performance bottlenecks as needed in the e-commerce application releases.
• Advise eCommerce IT senior level managers and executives to provide technical expertise, and project direction.

Requirements

• Multiple years of experience in online or ecommerce technology, participating in Java software development and software architecture
• Seasoned ATG expertise (Commerce, Merchandising, Content Management, Commerce Service Center) , not just experience or exposure
• Experience architecting high traffic, high scalability,  high availability and eCommerce websites or other Internet transactional applications
• Experience with end-to-end application performance tuning, including back-end database layer, ATG, application server/web server layer and UI layer
• Experience in the following technologies: Struts, Spring, Hibernate, etc. and J2EE technologies like JSP, Servlets, JMS, JMX, JDBC, JBoss, Websphere, Weblogic, Apache

Education & Training:

• Bachelor’s Degree Required

Location: United States

Travel:

50% travel flexibility – more or less depending on project; candidate should be comfortable with travel and overtime as client commitment requires.

Competitive Benefits & Compensation:

Amplifi Commerce offers excellent compensation and benefits including medical, dental, vision, 401(k),

Applicants for employment in the U.S. must possess work authorization which does not require sponsorship by the employer for a visa.

Ampli is an equal opportunity employer M/F/V/D