Commerce Manager

Role is also available in Bristol and Manchester

Hybrid 2/3 days in office

Security Clearance Required or Eligibility to Obtain

Sponsorship is not available for this role.

Salary as per following

Are you passionate about designing modern digital commerce platforms that transform customer experiences and drive business growth? Do you thrive at the intersection of strategy, architecture, and technology?

We're looking for an experienced Commerce Manager to help global organisations shape the future of digital commerce through innovative, scalable, and customer‑centric solutions.

What You'll Do

As a Commerce Manager, you will lead the design and delivery of cutting‑edge digital commerce and customer experience platforms, working with some of the world's leading brands.

You’ll be responsible for:

• Designing and evolving end-to-end technical architectures for digital commerce and customer platforms
• Translating business strategy and client requirements into scalable, secure, and high‑performing technical solutions
• Providing hands‑on architectural leadership throughout delivery, ensuring architectural integrity and technical excellence
• Collaborating with Product Managers, Business Analysts, Developers, and Delivery Leads to deliver successful outcomes
• Advising senior client stakeholders on architecture strategy, technology choices, and transformation roadmaps
• Driving digital transformation initiatives and helping organisations modernise legacy platforms while delivering incremental value
• Ensuring solutions meet security, governance, resilience, and performance standards
• Identifying and mitigating technical risks across complex programmes
• Exploring how AI and emerging technologies can enhance customer experiences, platform capabilities, and architectural practices

What We’re Looking For

We're seeking architects who combine technical excellence with strong consulting and leadership skills.

Your experience should include:

You’ll ideally bring: To thrive as an Manager in our Commerce foundry, you will possess a strong blend of technical expertise, architectural design capabilities, and effective communication skills. We are looking for practitioners who can translate vision into tangible technical solutions, guide development teams, and ensure the successful implementation of complex digital commerce platforms.

• Experience: Significant experience working on agile software development projects, working as an Architect or adjacent role (e.g. Senior Developer, Technical Lead)
• Solution Architecture & Design: Proven ability to design and document robust, scalable, and complex distributed application architectures for B2C and/or B2B front‑office and commerce solutions. Experience with cloud‑native architectures is a must.
• Commerce Platform Expertise: Demonstrable experience as a Solutions Architect with leading front‑office/commerce platforms aligned with composable principles (e.g., Salesforce Commerce Cloud, commercetools, SAP Commerce Cloud, Adobe Commerce, Shopify Plus, etc). A clear understanding of the role these technologies play in the broader digital customer landscape is essential.
• Technical Leadership & Guidance: Ability to provide technical leadership and guidance to development teams, ensuring adherence to architectural standards, best practices, and effective problem‑solving. Experience coaching and supporting multi‑location development teams.
• Architectural Principles & Methodologies: Strong understanding of architectural patterns, software development lifecycle (SDLC), and agile development methodologies from an architectural perspective. Ability to bridge the gap between old and new world technology landscapes and chart a path from one to the other, with demonstrable experience of helping clients to modernise complex legacy estates and guiding them on legacy monolith decommissioning.
• System Integration & Data Architecture: Experience in designing complex system integrations and defining data models for broader front‑office and commerce ecosystems (e.g., PIM, OMS, CDP, CRM, Marketing Automation).
• Performance, Scalability & Security: Expertise in designing solutions that meet high standards for performance, scalability, and security, including knowledge of security principles and standards.
• AI in Architecture: A practical understanding of how Artificial Intelligence and Generative AI can be integrated into front‑office and/or commerce architectures to enhance functionality, improve customer experience, and optimise operations. Demonstrated ability to leverage AI tools and techniques to improve architectural design processes and personal productivity.
• Technical Communication & Senior Stakeholder Engagement: Excellent ability to concisely articulate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences, present architectural designs, and collaborate effectively with client technical teams and project stakeholders. Good knowledge of the digital vendor landscape, including experience engaging with vendor selection processes for digital customer solutions, articulating the technical and commercial rationale for choices.
• Problem‑Solving & Innovation: A proactive and analytical approach to solving complex technical challenges, with a focus on designing innovative and practical solutions. A clear view on innovation within our sector and its relevance to our clients.
• Continuous Learning & Self‑Motivation: A commitment to staying abreast of emerging technologies, architectural trends, and industry best practices in digital commerce. Self‑motivated and driven, constantly seeking to deliver excellent client outcomes.

Up to 4 weeks working abroad per year

Access to leading learning platforms and professional development programmes

Support for continuous learning, certifications and career progression

Exposure to major Government digital transformation programmes

Opportunity to work with multidisciplinary teams on high‑impact initiatives

Access to industry‑leading cloud, data and AI technologies

Why Us?

You’ll work alongside talented strategists, creatives, engineers, and architects to solve complex challenges for some of the world’s most recognisable organisations.

We value people who:

Lead with integrity

Build inclusive and high‑performing teams

Challenge the status quo

Continuously learn and innovate

If you're looking for an opportunity

To shape enterprise‑scale digital commerce solutions while working in a collaborative and people‑focused environment, we'd love to hear from you.

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