Shopify Technical Architect required by a global market leading eCommerce consultancy for an immediate start.

Core Technical Skills/Experience:

• Strong experience of working with Shopify on deployment teams throughout the project life cycle, using agile and/or waterfall development techniques
• Strong experience in data model design, and enterprise architecture
• Defining and implementing technical strategy and architecture
• A proven track record of successful delivery on customer projects on the Shopify platform
• Excellent communication, presentation, and negotiation skills necessary to partner with and influence business stakeholders and technologists
• Excellent communication skills, equally comfortable with crafting emails as leading a white-board discussion with customers or delivering a technical presentation
• Strategic vision to help us to drive the standards and architecture of our Shopify practice
• Experience consulting with clients on requirements, architecting and implementing best-practice rooted solutions with the Shopify platform
• Deep experience/knowledge in designing, building, and testing business-wide distributed systems including knowledge of traditional and modern integration technologies (Web Services, MQ, Kafka, REST, GraphQL, ESBs, API Gateways, etc.)
• Design and guide the integration of Shopify with other systems and custom applications to the Shopify platform
• Act a subject matter expert (SME) in Shopify features, designing solutions, using the Shopify API, private and public apps and other tools that extend the product
• Work closely with Project Managers, Shopify Consultants and clients to architect technology solutions needed to support key customer business requirements
• Support and provide estimates regarding timeline and resource management for the integration and development
• Ensure design is architected correct and meets Shopify best practices
• Authors the technical design specifications