Digital Commerce Architect

Company Description

We **Dream**. We **Do**. We **Deliver**.

As a **full-service, data-driven customer experience transformation, **we partner with Top 500 companies in the DACH region and in Eastern Europe. Originally from Switzerland, Merkle DACH was created out of a merger between Namics and Isobar - two leading full-service digital agencies.

**Our 1200+ digital enthusiasts **are innovating the way brands are built, through providing expertise in Digital Transformation strategy, MarTech platforms, Creativity, UX, CRM, Data, Commerce, Mobile, Social Media, Intranet, CMS, DAM, Business Consulting. We are part of the global **Merkle** brand, the largest brand within the Dentsu group, who shares with us a network of over 66,000 passionate individuals in 146 countries.

**Job Description**:
Would you consider yourself as a crazy headless guru? Commerce has no secret for you? And when we say 'Asset Management' you know that we are not talking about finance?
If one or all of these above bring excitement, then the following might be of interest for you

Here at Merkle DACH, we are looking for a 'crazy genius' to join us in the position of **Digital Commerce Architect **based in Spain.

**What will be your role?**
- Be involved in large scale programs definition and strategy
- Shine on stage when pitching multi-millions recommendation to large multinationals
- Support in technological roadmap for Merkle DACH, evaluating continuously existing and new technologies & solutions on the market to understand business potential
- Be an active member of the technical leadership across Merkle DACH and EMEA organization
- Act as the technical spokesman when speaking with any kind of business stakeholder
- Lead technical workshops and advise customers on architectural and strategic IT decisions
- Educate customers on best practices to ensure their solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud.

In this role, you will also create a best-in-class solution for our customers’ portfolio. Gathering IT & Business, you will provide recommendations while always looking for innovation, next level architecture, costs efficiency, business impact & viable solutions for our clients.

**Qualifications**:
**Technical requirements?**
- At least 8 years of relevant work experience in a Digital and/or Commerce, Solution Architecture role.
- Experience with **HTTP **and** REST API use.**:

- Excellent technical skills in enterprise platforms (e.g. Adobe, SAP, Sitecore ), infrastructure and DevOps, cloud technologies, integration (API, data models), Data and Customer Segmentation, Performance, UX/CX methodologies
- Excellent knowledge and mastering of Architecture design for complex environments with special focus on distributed architectures, headless not a secret anymore for you
- Mastering of all kind of cross-cutting concerns with an especially strong expertise in security and performance
- Demonstrated experience in marketplaces and third-party systems connectors
- Excellent knowledge of one or more Content Management System
- Be able to determine the risk associated with third-party platforms or frameworks.
- Solid experience in overall release management (CI/CD tool-chains, e.g. Git, Jira and Confluence )
- Understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and approaches
- Ability to provide accurate time estimates on tasks and/or overall project implementation from End to End
- Experience in following Agile development practices.

**Your profile?**
- Comfortable with any type of audience, C-Levels & business stakeholders is definitely your cup of tea
- Make “tech” easy access to everyone
- You enjoy learning new things, you are keen to test, you love to teach, in a very autonomous way
- Create a community around architecture with our other tech experts would be your favorite hobby
- Solid leadership, ability to motivate and pass knowledge to your peers
- Negotiation and presentation skills
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Demonstrated people management experience
- Fluent in English, French or German a plus
- Be able to explain your role to a 6 year old kid.

And most of all, we want to have fun at work

Tempted by the challenge?

Additional Information
**A few of the benefits**

Whether it’s the joy of working with people at the top of their game or the Merkle social calendar, people love working here - and we hope you will too
- Attractive and competitive salary.
- Spanish/English lessons.
- Free life and health insurance.
- Career development through Merkle University and LinkedIn Learning.
- Day off on your birthday
- Reduced fee in Andjoy
- 2 volunteering days per annum
- Wellness Days
- Flexible salary remuneration scheme.
- Great multinational colleagues
- As part of our Diversity and Inclusion agenda, and as an Equal Opportunities employer, if you require reasonable adjustments during the selection process please engage directly with your Recruiter._