Senior Solutions Architect (Composable Commerce)

Qualifications and requirements

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Enterprise-Level Architecture: 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 3 years operating as a Solution Architect, Lead Frontend Engineer, or Technical Consultant for large-scale enterprise e-commerce platforms.
• Frontend Mastery (Next.js & React): Deep, "inside-out" production-level expertise in Next.js, React, TypeScript, and modern Server-Side Rendering (SSR) and Incremental Static Regeneration (ISR) strategies.
• SAP Commerce Cloud (Hybris) Fluency: Direct, practical experience integrating frontends with SAP Commerce Cloud via OCC REST APIs. You must speak the language of SAP data models, cart calculations, and content delivery structures.
• SmartEdit Experience: Prior experience implementing, extending, or maintaining SAP SmartEdit context and live-previews within a headless/decoupled frontend architecture.
• MACH Principles: Strong conceptual and hands-on understanding of MACH (Micro-services, API-first, Cloud-native, Headless) principles.
• BFF & API Design (Alokai Connect): Strong experience building and maintaining Backend-for-Frontend (BFF) layers, Node.js middleware, GraphQL gateways, and custom API integrations (including payment and checkout platforms). Direct familiarity with Alokai’s Unified Data Layer (UDL) mapping is highly advantageous.
• C-Level Communication Skills: Near-native, highly confident English verbal and written communication skills. You must be comfortable leading high-stakes technical workshops, leading sprint planning, and confidently explaining complex architectural concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, up to C-level executives.
• Autonomy & Self-Onboarding: A proven track record of entering complex enterprise environments, identifying integration patterns, and onboarding yourself onto local codebases with minimal supervision ("knowing your stuff" from day one)

Projects

You will be joining our most globally distributed team—a highly skilled group of senior tech experts located across different time zones. Our mission is critical to the company's success: we act as the ultimate technical partners for our clients, guiding them smoothly through the high-stakes phase of preparing for "Go-Live" and ensuring their continued success long after launch.

We operate at the exciting intersection of deep technical problem-solving and strategic client relations. We are the bridge that connects our Customer Success (CS) team with our Core Engineering department, ensuring that feedback flows seamlessly and technical roadblocks are cleared instantly.

Team members are based in Australia, Poland, Nicaragua and Netherlands.

Key Performance Indicators

• Smooth Self-Onboarding: Within your first two weeks, you have mapped out the client's integration architecture, understood our Next.js framework implementation, and confidently taken over technical client sessions.
• Storefront Performance: Client storefronts consistently meet or exceed Core Web Vitals targets (LCP, INP, CLS). Performance is ingrained in everything you do; it is never an afterthought, even when orchestrating heavy, complex legacy payloads.
• Resilient Middleware Delivery: Alokai’s middleware is clean, performant, and correctly abstracts the complexity of SAP OCC REST APIs.
• Active Feedback Contribution: Effectively bridge client needs with internal engineering by lodging clear, actionable bug reports and feature requests to the Europe-based product team.
• High Client Trust: Enterprise technical stakeholders view you as a highly confident partner who translates complex headless architectures into easy-to-understand solutions.

Conditions

• Elite Enterprise Exposure: Direct influence over the digital transformation of world-famous global brands.
• Premium Hardware Provision: We provide you with the best tools for the job, including a company-issued MacBook.
• Modern Stack: Work with cutting-edge tools (Alokai, Next.js, GraphQL, Node.js) on large-scale architectures.
• Influence Core Product Roadmap: Directly contribute to the evolution of the market-leading Frontend as a Service by feeding real-world enterprise insights back to the core product team.
• Global, Diverse Team: Collaborate with world-class engineers across Europe, the Americas, and APAC.
• 100% Remote & Flexible: Fully remote setup with high autonomy and flexible working rhythms.