Solution Architecture - HCL Commerce

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain target and transitional architecture for multi-tier B2B commerce, encompassing WCS store, business logic, Commerce tools, Spring Boot APIs, and Next.js / React storefront
• Lead the design of dual-run / strangler patterns, determining which journeys remain on WCS and which migrate to Next.js and services, while ensuring routing, session, catalog, cart, and order consistency, and defining cut-over and rollback procedures
• Produce and review solution designs, sequence/integration diagrams, and interface contracts (REST/SOAP), identifying reusability, 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 activities
• Establish coding and design standards for Commerce customization, Spring Boot services, and Next.js storefront to ensure consistency across squads
• Guide integration with back-end systems (ERP, payments, search, CMS, punchout / customer purchasing systems), maintaining clear distinction between Preview (authoring) and Runtime (customer-facing) Commerce environments
• Review designs and pull requests for Commerce, services, and storefront layers, resolving complex cross-layer defects at their root cause
• Advise on capacity planning, caching strategies, search, and failure modes for a high-traffic B2B storefront
• Mentor senior engineers and leads, documenting architecture decisions with context, options, and consequences to ensure continuity
• Identify key barriers and apply structured problem-solving approaches to complex, multi-system challenges

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