Commerce Architect

Content and Commerce Architect needed in Dubai with 15+ years of experience. Lead the architecture and delivery of enterprise CMS and digital commerce platforms. Define end-to-end solution architecture for content management, eCommerce, digital experience, and omnichannel platforms. Design scalable and secure headless and composable commerce solutions. Provide architectural leadership across CMS, commerce, APIs, integrations, personalization, analytics, and digital experience. Define content models, information architecture, taxonomy, workflows, and content delivery strategies. Design and govern integrations using REST APIs, GraphQL, microservices, and API gateways. Evaluate and recommend appropriate CMS and commerce platforms based on business and technical requirements. Drive architecture modernization, platform transformation, and migration initiatives. Ensure solutions meet enterprise requirements for scalability, performance, availability, security, and maintainability. Establish and enforce architecture standards, design patterns, governance, and technical best practices. Work with DevOps teams on CI/CD, cloud deployment, automation, and platform operations. Collaborate with business and technology stakeholders to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions. Lead technical discussions, architecture reviews, POCs, and solution presentations. Identify opportunities for personalization, SEO, analytics, and digital customer experience improvements. Provide technical leadership and mentorship to architects, developers, and engineering teams. Act as a trusted technology advisor to senior stakeholders and clients. Mandatory Technical Skills include Adobe Experience Manager, Sitecore, Optimizely, Shopify Plus, SAP Commerce / SAP Hybris, Headless Commerce, Composable Commerce, REST APIs / GraphQL, Microservices Architecture, API Integration, Content Modeling, Personalization, SEO, Digital Analytics, Cloud Architecture - Azure / AWS, DevOps / CI-CD, Solution Architecture & Architecture Governance. Preferred skills include MACH architecture, PIM, DAM, CDP, Elasticsearch, Solr, Docker, Kubernetes, and Kafka. Excellent communication, presentation, and executive stakeholder management skills required.