Principal Solutions Architect - SAP Commerce & Fulfillment

We are looking for a Principal Solutions Architect - SAP Commerce & Fulfillment to define, design, and lead the technical areas in our global E-commerce platform. In this role, you will act as the primary technical authority across our digital commerce stack, leading architecture decisions across SAP Commerce Cloud (Hybris), SAP and ERP ecosystems, WMS, and 3rd Party Logistics partners. Key Responsibilities

• Own the overarching technical architecture connecting digital storefronts, Commerce Core, Middleware, ERP, and Logistics engines.
• Lead Architectural Review, evaluations, define coding standards, enforce integration design patterns, and ensure platform scalability and maintainability.
• Collaborate with Product, Operations, and Engineering leadership to align technical capabilities with complex business initiatives.
• Design robust, bi-directional integration pipelines between SAP Commerce Cloud and SAP systems
• Define enterprise messaging standards using synchronous (REST /GraphQL) and asynchronous mechanisms for high-throughput data exchange.
• Architect multi-node order routing, order splitting logic (multi-warehouse / drop-ship), and fulfillment prioritization rules based on real-time cost and proximity.
• Ensure platform stability during peak global traffic events (handling tens of thousands of orders per minute) through distributed caching, asynchronous queueing, and database sharding.
• Design resilient integration boundaries with circuit breakers, idempotent retry policies, and zero data loss event handling during downstream ERP or 3PL outages.

• 12+ years in software engineering with at least 5+ years in a Lead/Principal Architect capacity.
• 6+ years of deep architectural experience with SAP Commerce Cloud (Hybris) (Core Platform, Backoffice, Order Management Services, Solr search, Cronjobs).
• Demonstrated track record architecting enterprise integrations with SAP and ERP systems.
• Technical & System Design Skills:
• Mastery of Java, Spring Framework / Spring Boot, and reactive programming models.
• Deep expertise in Event-Driven Architecture utilizing Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, or AWS/Google Cloud Platform messaging services.
• Solid grounding in API-first, headless commerce architectures (Spartacus, Angular/TypeScript storefronts, GraphQL, REST).
• Strong database modeling skills across relational (SQL, Oracle, SAP HANA) and NoSQL/In-Memory databases (Redis, Memcached).
• Experience architecting and integrating LLM/GenAI applications into production workflows (e.g., LangChain, LlamaIndex, OpenAI/Gemini APIs, RAG architectures, Agentic frameworks).
• Familiarity with Vector Search/Databases (e.g., Pinecone, pgvector) and hybrid search implementations.
• Experience designing inference pipelines with strict latency, rate-limiting, and cost-control constraints.
• Demonstrated expertise architecting Unified Commerce Platforms (UCP) connecting unified carts, and managing Checkout process.

Preferred / Nice-to-Have

• Certified SAP Commerce Cloud Enterprise Architect or SAP Integration Specialist.
• Experience with cloud-native migrations (Google Cloud Platform, AWS, Azure), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and modern CI/CD orchestration.