Solution Architect, SFCC and Mobile

ScottsMiracle-Gro • Marysville, OH

15h • $140,000 - $164,700

About The Position

Here at Scotts Miracle-Gro there is no such thing as a typical day. Our culture is constantly energized by new and exciting growth opportunities and at a rapid pace. Below are details on an open job. If the role interests you and you would like to be considered we encourage you to apply! We are looking for a Solution Architect to own the technical direction of our digital commerce platform: Salesforce Commerce Cloud (SFCC), its integrations with Order Management, middleware, ERP, customer identity management, personalization, and the API layer that powers our mobile experiences. You will also shape how we manage digital assets and syndicate product content across channels. You will sit between our Product Owners and our engineering teams, ensuring that business intent is technically sound before code starts. You will be embedded in the Digital Commerce domain, owning the technical backlog across sprints, participating in sprint ceremonies, and shaping how our platform evolves across web and mobile channels. You are here to build a sustainable platform alongside the teams that deliver it. This domain has a specific kind of complexity. The storefront is not a standalone application; it is the front door to a multi-system orchestration that spans checkout, payment authorization, order fulfillment, subscription management, and customer identity. A single checkout touches SFCC controllers, payment capture, OMS routing, warehouse fulfillment, and product subscription logic. When something breaks, the root cause could be in any of those systems. Our mobile app adds another dimension: headless APIs that serve native experiences alongside the traditional storefront, which means the platform has to support two consumers with different needs, different session models, and different performance expectations, while keeping business logic consistent between them. Most commerce platforms are complicated. This one is complicated in ways that reward architects who want to understand how all the pieces connect, not just the piece in front of them.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in solution architecture, technical consulting, or hands-on development within the Salesforce Commerce Cloud ecosystem or comparable enterprise commerce platforms. Specific expertise in SFCC (SFRA, controllers, Business Manager, ISML) is valued, but strong candidates from related commerce platforms with solid integration architecture depth will be considered.
• A development background. You have written code professionally. Not because you will write production code in this role, but because that foundation gives you the judgment to evaluate solutions, run meaningful POCs, and communicate credibly with engineering teams.
• Understanding of how a commerce storefront connects to backend systems: order management, payment processing, subscription platforms, and ERP. You can explain what happens after a customer clicks "Place Order" and where the risk points are in that chain.
• Experience designing or consuming APIs for multi-channel commerce. You understand the difference between serving a full storefront page and exposing headless APIs for a mobile app, and the architectural decisions that come with supporting both from the same platform.
• The ability to explain complex technical constraints (like why a checkout change requires coordination across three systems and two release cycles) to non-technical stakeholders in a way that connects to business outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Assess the technical feasibility of proposed commerce features (checkout flows, subscription models, promotions, personalization) before they reach the engineering backlog. You validate technical constraints around SFCC controllers, Business Manager configuration, API contracts, and cross-system data dependencies so the team is never surprised mid-sprint.
• Translate high-level business requirements into detailed technical specifications that engineering teams can execute on efficiently. You are the bridge between what the business needs and how it should be built.
• Own the technical roadmap for the Digital Commerce domain, ensuring that platform health, Core Web Vitals, checkout stability, and security initiatives are prioritized alongside business features.
• Get hands-on in sandboxes to run rapid Proofs of Concept for complex problems: API contract design for mobile consumers, session bridging patterns, payment flow changes, promotion stacking logic. You experiment and validate before the team commits engineering resources.
• Define non-functional requirements for site performance, API response times, payment security, and cross-channel consistency. These are not afterthoughts. They are the foundation of a platform that processes real revenue every day.
• Proactively identify technical debt in legacy cartridges, custom controllers, and integration layers. You create plans to resolve it and advocate for platform health within the roadmap.
• Spend time with Product Owners, the Merchandising team, UX, and the Marketing CRM team. Understand how they plan campaigns, how they configure promotions, what data they need from the platform, and what their goals look like quarter to quarter. The best solutions come from architects who understand the business context behind the features they design, not just the code that implements them.

Benefits

• Our Live Total Health program provides you with options to align to your personal needs . Selections range from medical, dental and vision coverage for you, your spouse/domestic partner and dependents to an outstanding wellness reimbursement program to an unbelievable 401K match (up to 7.5%) as well as a 15% discount on company stock and much more
• We know our talent is our most precious asset and your unique development contributes to our organization’s success now and in the future. Career growth at our company is not always a ladder. It’s much more like a rock climbing adventure. Grow through exploration and experiences rather than a predictable linear path.
• We value the importance of family . We provide access to Maven Family Planning and up to $30,000 to accommodate for adoption, fertility and surrogacy .
• Be part of something bigger by joining one of our Employee Resource Groups focusing on diversity and inclusion, family, education and sustainability : Scotts Women’s Network, Scotts Black Employees’ Network, Scotts Veterans Network, Scotts Young Professionals, Scotts Pride Network (GroPride), Scotts Associates for a Greener Earth (SAGE), Scotts Family TREE and our Associate Boards.
• Join a company with a strong belief in giving bac k to the communities where we live and work. We have a shared passion for service and volunteerism and believe participating in community service benefits our communities and strengthens our team.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed