Technical Engineering Architect

OUR CLIENT: Our multinational client is establishing a Digital Centre of Excellence DCOE in Limerick and now have fantastic opportunities as they grow the site, one of those opportunities is for a Global E-commerce Manager. THE POSITION Director of GEP Engineering supervises the day-to-day activity of development team and functions as the most senior technology leader in GEP Digital Center of Excellence (DCOE) .

He/she/they will aggressively drive forward application development across multiple SAP Commerce Cloud based GEP store-fronts while ensuring performance, scalability, reusability and security of them all. This role will have multiple Agile/Scrum teams reporting to it. The Director of GEP Engineering will act as a technical advisor to Senior Director of Digital Engineering and drive implementation of technical recommendations on the GEP platform.

The Director will develop trusting and collaborative relationships throughout the business. Information Services teams to ensure that technology implementations closely aligns with business goals. This includes meeting with technology and business partners regularly to ensure that technology offerings are consistent with vertical specific needs.

AS the Director of GEP Engineering, YOU WILL:

• Utilize SAP Commerce Cloud best practices to design, configure / develop, test, and deploy hybrid B2B solutions with multitude of ERPs and SOA/Microservices in the back end.
• Provide engineering expertise in evaluating system requirements and procedures that are cost effective and meet business objectives and user needs.
• Be accountable for the viability of the proposed solution and provide direction, advice, and guidance on the appropriate approach to the solution throughout the project.
• Familiar with all modules like Search and Navigation, Product Catalog Management, Web Content Management System, Cart, Checkout, Account & Customer Management, Order Processing, Personalization, Apache Solr.
• Well versed in integrations with internal systems and 3rd party vendor systems.
• Experience in Product modelling, catalog structure and workflow
• Hybris implementation experience with Data hub or CPI is advantage.
• Experience in developing and designing for non-functional requirements (availability, interoperability, portability, manageability, scalability, maintainability, security, monitoring, SLAs, KPIs, regulatory and legal compliance) based on business vision, best practices, and enterprise architecture direction.
• Lead multiple teams of developers, testers, leads and other technical contributors. Have responsibility for the quality of the technical solution delivered by project teams.
• Collaborate with business units to identify and develop true business value opportunities, understand their priorities and influence the decision on priorities, road map and timing of initiatives/deliverables
• Collaborate with enterprise and solution architecture teams for aspects related to integration with other systems BACKGROUND SOUGHT: The Director of GEP Engineering of choice will possess a minimum of 10 years’ experience in software development and high performance e-Commerce systems o At least 10 years of Information Technology experience designing, developing using Java, J2EE applications, frameworks 5+ years of hands-on architecture and application development experience of progressive complexity on SAP Commerce Cloud (Hybris) Experience with the full SAP Hybris stack including the Model View Controller (MVC) architecture and integration best practices. Strong working experience with Hybris developing/maintaining custom extensions and modules. o Experience in data modelling for complex B2B, B2C business processes o Strong hands on experience in customizing Hybris based e-Commerce Applications, Hybris CMS and e-commerce suite (WCMS, Solr, HMC, CMS & Product Cockpit, Admin Console, Import/Export Service, Catalogs, Categories, Products). Experience and passion to work in a fast-paced Agile environment. A BA/BS and MA/MS in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field strongly preferred Comfortable working in internationally distributed teams Strong verbal and written communication skills Above market package Hybrid working Salary: 100k+ Pension Bonus Health Insurance Holidays: 25 days + public holidays relocation assistance critical skills visa offered​