Optimizely Commerce Technical Consultant/Architect

Optimizely Commerce Technical Consultant/Architect

3-Month Contract | West London (Hybrid/Remote) | Inside IR35 (Umbrella) | ASAP Start

The Opportunity

My client is seeking an experienced Optimizely Commerce Technical Consultant/Architect to support the ongoing development and enhancement of a global enterprise eCommerce platform.

This is a hands-on contract role requiring deep expertise in Optimizely Commerce, Microsoft Azure, and enterprise-scale digital commerce solutions. You will join a cross-functional delivery team responsible for delivering new commerce capabilities, platform enhancements, and integrations across multiple international markets.

The successful candidate will combine strong architecture and design skills with the ability to provide technical leadership and hands-on guidance to engineering teams throughout the delivery life cycle.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, architect and implement solutions using Optimizely Commerce Connect.
• Provide technical leadership across new commerce capabilities, enhancements and strategic platform initiatives.
• Collaborate with Solution Architects, Product Owners, Business Analysts and development teams to produce scalable, maintainable technical designs.
• Support integrations with enterprise systems including ERP, CRM, PIM, DAM, payment gateways, tax and shipping providers.
• Ensure solutions align with enterprise architecture, security, scalability and performance standards.
• Participate in architecture reviews, technical design workshops and solution governance activities.
• Perform code reviews and promote engineering best practices.
• Support troubleshooting and resolution of complex production issues.
• Contribute to technical documentation, standards and knowledge-sharing initiatives.
• Act as a trusted technical advisor for stakeholders across business and technology teams.

Essential Skills & Experience

Optimizely & Commerce

• Experience delivering enterprise-scale Optimizely Commerce solutions.
• Experience with:
• Optimizely Commerce Connect
• Optimizely CMS
• Headless commerce architectures
• Composable commerce solutions
• Enterprise B2B and B2C commerce platforms

Microsoft Technology Stack

Hands-on experience with:

• .NET/ASP.NET Core/C#
• REST APIs and integration architecture
• Azure App Services
• Azure Functions
• Azure Storage
• Azure DevOps
• CI/CD pipelines and automated deployments

Integration Experience

Proven experience integrating commerce platforms with:

• Enterprise PIM solutions
• Digital Asset Management (DAM) platforms
• ERP systems
• Payment gateways
• Tax calculation services
• Shipping and fulfilment providers

Delivery & Leadership

• Experience working within Agile delivery environments.
• Strong understanding of modern application architecture and cloud-native principles.
• Ability to review technical designs and provide architectural guidance.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Experience working closely with both technical and business audiences.

Desirable Experience

Experience with any of the following would be highly advantageous:

• Optimizely Configured Commerce
• Optimizely Search & Navigation
• Optimizely Graph
• Azure API Management
• Azure Service Bus
• Azure Event Grid
• Application Insights
• Commerce performance optimisation
• Global and multi-market eCommerce implementations
• Highly regulated environments

Experience with one or more of the following technologies and platforms:

• InRiver or other enterprise PIM platforms
• Aprimo DAM
• Microsoft Dynamics 365
• OneTrust
• Microsoft Entra ID
• Azure AD B2C
• Healthcare or Life Sciences digital platforms
• Large-scale enterprise commerce programmes
• International commerce platform rollouts

Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.