GreatHR Solutions
Company:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/greathrsolutions
Seniority: Mid-Senior level
Industries: IT Services and IT Consulting
Job details:
HCL WebSphere Commerce Architect
Level: Architect (contract)
Engagement: Contract
Job Description & Qualifications
Job Summary
Own solution architecture for HD Supply’s B2B eCommerce platform across HCL Commerce /
WebSphere Commerce (WCS) v8, Next.js storefront, and Spring Boot services during dual-run. Translate
business and product intent into designs that keep the legacy commerce engine healthy while journeys
move onto the modern stack. Provide Ready-to-Serve architectural leadership: standards, integration
patterns, NFRs, and design review. Hands-on: you will still write and review design artifacts and, as
needed, code — this is not a slide-only role.
Major Tasks, Responsibilities and Key Accountabilities
• Define and maintain target and transitional architecture for multi-tier B2B commerce: WCS store,
store data, business logic, Commerce tools, Spring Boot APIs, and Next.js / React storefront.
• Lead design of dual-run / strangler patterns: which journeys stay on WCS, which move to Next.js +
services, how routing, session, catalog, cart, and order stay consistent, and how cut-over and
rollback work.
• Produce and review solution designs, sequence/integration diagrams, and interface contracts
(REST/SOAP). Identify re-usability, performance, security, and operability issues before build.
• Partner with product, delivery leads, QA, DevOps, and enterprise/integration teams on
requirements, data conversion, integration testing, and cut-over.
• Set coding and design standards for Commerce customization, Spring Boot services, and Next.js
storefront so squads do not fork three incompatible styles.
• Guide integration with back-end systems (ERP, payments, search, CMS, punchout / customer
purchasing systems) without treating Preview (authoring) and Runtime (customer-facing) Commerce
as the same environment.
• Review designs and PRs for Commerce, services, and storefront; unblock the hardest cross-layer
defects at root cause.
• Advise on capacity, caching, search, and failure modes for a high-traffic B2B storefront.
• Mentor senior engineers and leads; make architecture decisions explicit (context, options,
consequences) so they survive contractor turnover.
• Identify key barriers and apply structured problem-solving to complex, multi-system situations.
Skills and Qualifications
Required
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline, or equivalent work
experience.
• 10+ years professional software engineering; 5+ years in an architect or equivalent principal/staff
design role on large commerce or similarly complex multi-tier systems.
• 8+ years expertise in HCL Commerce and/or IBM WebSphere Commerce (WCS) 8.x — store
customization, commands/tasks, tools, catalog/order/user/organization flows, and back-end
integration. v8 experience is the hiring bar; later Commerce versions are a plus, not a substitute.
• 8+ years Java / J2EE and OOD on large IT systems (WebSphere Application Server strongly
preferred).
• 5+ years Spring / Spring MVC with hands-on Spring Boot architecture (service boundaries, APIs,
resilience, auth) — not “Spring on a résumé only.”
• 5+ years web services (REST and SOAP); ability to specify contracts others can implement.
• Next.js and React production architecture experience (routing, data fetching, BFF/API integration,
storefront performance). TypeScript preferred.
• 5+ years source control (Git required).
• Experience architecting B2B commerce (punchout, org/user models, contract/pricing complexity
preferred).
• Experience with Agile delivery using Atlassian tools (Jira, Bitbucket/Git, Confluence).
• Excellent written and verbal communication with engineers and non-engineers.
Preferred
• Headless / composable commerce (API-first storefront, BFF, packaged capabilities). MuleSoft or
similar iPaaS.
• Search (Solr or equivalent), cache (Redis or equivalent), CMS-driven storefront (Optimizely or
equivalent) alongside a commerce engine.
• Cloud (GKE/Kubernetes or equivalent) for storefront and Spring Boot; WAS/IHS for Commerce.
• Security, PCI-adjacent payment flows, and session/identity across legacy and modern storefronts.
• Prior dual-run or large-scale commerce migration.
What this role is not
• Not enterprise architecture detached from Commerce. You must have shipped WCS/HCL Commerce,
not only drawn boxes around it.
• Not a greenfield-only Next.js or Spring Boot architect.
• Not IBM WebSphere Portal or generic Java EE without Commerce.
• Not a people-manager of record (that sits with the Lead / delivery manager); you own technical
direction.
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