Principal Commerce Layer Architect - REMOTE

NTT DATA Services•Dallas, TX

4d•$95,918 - $177,625•Remote

About The Position

We are seeking an enterprise-level Principal Commerce Layer Architect to own, design, and govern the technical blueprint of our global digital commerce ecosystem. In this high-seniority role, you will be the core technical authority responsible for transitioning legacy architectures into a highly decoupled, API-first, composable infrastructure powered by CommerceLayer. You will orchestrate the intersection of high-scale checkout operations, globally distributed inventory pools, complex multi-market pricing engines, and enterprise data flows. Working directly with executive stakeholders, engineering managers, and cross-functional product teams, you will establish the integration patterns, performance benchmarks, and governance standards that safeguard our global transaction layers.

Requirements

1+ Years of CommerceLayer
8+ years of eCommerce experience, technical software engineering and architecture experience, specializing in web environments, composable architectures, and modern digital commerce solutions at massive global scale.
5+ years mastery of TypeScript/JavaScript, REST APIs, GraphQL, JSON:API specifications, SQL/NoSQL databases, Node.js, and serverless compute platforms (AWS Lambda, Vercel, or Google Cloud Functions).
5+ years experience with advanced API modeling utilities, microservice orchestration tools, CI/CD automated deployment runners (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI), performance tracking metrics, Jira, and Git workflows.
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or an equivalent engineering discipline.

Nice To Haves

Next.js and CommerceLayer JavaScript SDKs; implementing secure Customer Single Sign-On (SSO) systems; and managing global OAuth token generation strategies at the edge to ensure blazing-fast web vitals and zero-friction purchase journeys.
Experience directing high-impact technical architecture decisions and governance frameworks for globally distributed product development groups.
Elite communication and narrative-building capabilities, with a verified track record of articulating complex technical risk factors, data schemas, or API trade-offs to non-technical business partners and C-suite stakeholders.

Responsibilities

Author and maintain comprehensive architectural blueprints, sequence diagrams, and data-flow mappings detailing how CommerceLayer communicates with external PIM, ERP, and OMS infrastructure.
Design robust structural guardrails, caching strategies, and edge computation models to maximize API efficiency and ensure low-latency storefront interactions globally.
Resolve highly complex engineering bottlenecks, structural performance regressions, and multi-region synchronization failures across the composable layer.
Define and audit end-to-end security parameters across the transaction pipeline, including encryption of sensitive customer records, API access token lifecycle management, and verification of webhook signatures.
Establish architectural strategies for phase-based rollouts, allowing localized markets to go live independently on CommerceLayer while legacy commerce properties gracefully deprecate.
Formulate robust automated load-testing and regression strategies to guarantee that core ordering pathways remain unbroken during massive seasonal traffic surges.
Lead complex architectural discovery workshops, technical steering committees, and system-readiness evaluations to align data, frontend, infrastructure, and QA teams.
Provide high-fidelity engineering complexity assessments, technical risk logs, and resource forecasting matrices for the long-term technology roadmap.
Maintain elite developer documentation, tracking system interface contracts, integration fallback procedures, and emergency infrastructure runbooks.