- Photon
- United States,
- Full-Time
- 57 days ago
- $72,000–$252,000
Architect Commerce Cloud (Hybris) -Mountain View, CA.
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Architect Commerce Cloud (Hybris) -Mountain View, CA: our view in 3 lines...
- The Role:This role is for a principal architect with SAP Commerce Cloud experience who can design enterprise commerce platforms and integrations.
- The Person:The person will own technical architecture for digital storefronts, Commerce Core, Middleware, ERP, and logistics engines, design integrations and messaging standards, and improve scalability, stability, and order routing.
- Requirements:The ideal candidate has 12+ years in software engineering, 5+ years as a Lead or Principal Architect, deep experience with SAP Commerce Cloud, and strong skills in Java, Spring Framework, Apache Kafka, SQL, Oracle, Redis, and AWS or GCP messaging services.
About the role
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.
Requirements & Qualifications
- 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/GCP 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 (GCP, AWS, Azure), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and modern CI/CD orchestration.
Compensation, Benefits and Duration
Minimum Compensation: USD 72,000
Maximum Compensation: USD 252,000
Compensation is based on actual experience and qualifications of the candidate. The above is a reasonable and a good faith estimate for the role.
Medical, vision, and dental benefits, 401k retirement plan, variable pay/incentives, paid time off, and paid holidays are available for full-time employees.
This position is available for independent contractors
No applications will be considered if received more than 120 days after the date of this post

