Optimizely Commerce Technical Consultant / Architect

This is a hands-on contract role requiring deep expertise in Optimizely Commerce, Microsoft Azure, and enterprise-scale digital commerce solutions. You will join a cross-functional delivery team responsible for delivering new commerce capabilities, platform enhancements, and integrations across multiple international markets., * Design, architect and implement solutions using Optimizely Commerce Connect.

• Provide technical leadership across new commerce capabilities, enhancements and strategic platform initiatives.
• Collaborate with Solution Architects, Product Owners, Business Analysts and development teams to produce scalable, maintainable technical designs.
• Support integrations with enterprise systems including ERP, CRM, PIM, DAM, payment gateways, tax and shipping providers.
• Ensure solutions align with enterprise architecture, security, scalability and performance standards.
• Participate in architecture reviews, technical design workshops and solution governance activities.
• Perform code reviews and promote engineering best practices.
• Support troubleshooting and resolution of complex production issues.
• Contribute to technical documentation, standards and knowledge-sharing initiatives.
• Act as a trusted technical advisor for stakeholders across business and technology teams.

The successful candidate will combine strong architecture and design skills with the ability to provide technical leadership and hands-on guidance to engineering teams throughout the delivery lifecycle., Optimizely & Commerce

• Experience delivering enterprise-scale Optimizely Commerce solutions.

• Experience with:

• Optimizely Commerce Connect
• Optimizely CMS
• Headless commerce architectures
• Composable commerce solutions
• Enterprise B2B and B2C commerce platforms

Microsoft Technology Stack

Hands-on experience with:

• .NET / ASP.NET Core / C#
• REST APIs and integration architecture
• Azure App Services
• Azure Functions
• Azure Storage
• Azure DevOps
• CI/CD pipelines and automated deployments

Integration Experience

Proven experience integrating commerce platforms with:

• Enterprise PIM solutions
• Digital Asset Management (DAM) platforms
• ERP systems
• Payment gateways
• Tax calculation services
• Shipping and fulfilment providers

Delivery & Leadership

• Experience working within Agile delivery environments.
• Strong understanding of modern application architecture and cloud-native principles.
• Ability to review technical designs and provide architectural guidance.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Experience working closely with both technical and business audiences.

Desirable Experience

Experience with any of the following would be highly advantageous:

• Optimizely Configured Commerce
• Optimizely Search & Navigation
• Optimizely Graph
• Azure API Management
• Azure Service Bus
• Azure Event Grid
• Application Insights
• Commerce performance optimisation
• Global and multi-market eCommerce implementations
• Highly regulated environments

Experience with one or more of the following technologies and platforms:

• InRiver or other enterprise PIM platforms
• Aprimo DAM
• Microsoft Dynamics 365
• OneTrust
• Microsoft Entra ID
• Azure AD B2C
• Healthcare or Life Sciences digital platforms
• Large-scale enterprise commerce programmes
• International commerce platform rollouts