Shopify Practice Director

Why Valtech? We’re the experience innovation company – a trusted partner to the world’s most recognized brands. To our people we offer growth opportunities, a values‑driven culture, international careers and the chance to shape the future of experience.

At Valtech, you’ll find an environment designed for continuous learning, meaningful impact, and professional growth. Whether you're pioneering new digital solutions, challenging conventional thinking or building the next generation of customer experiences, your work will help transform industries.

Please note, we are only accepting applicants from the provinces of Ontario and Québec for this role. For Québec-based candidates, fluency in English is necessary because the position entails collaboration with teams based in the rest of the Americas and occasionally in Europe.

As Practice Director, Shopify Commerce, you will own the technical vision, delivery excellence, and business development strategy for our enterprise Shopify Plus practice. You will lead a global team of architects, engineers, and solution consultants—shaping how we design, build, and scale mission‑critical commerce platforms for our largest clients. This role sits at the intersection of enterprise commerce architecture, active sales engagement, and talent leadership.

You will be expected to command deep, hands‑on knowledge of the Shopify Plus ecosystem and the broader technology stack that surrounds it—including ERP integrations, enterprise search, customer data platforms, and headless commerce patterns—and translate that expertise into winning proposals, trusted client partnerships, and a world‑class team.

• Lead a practice at the forefront of enterprise Shopify Plus—working with some of the world’s most ambitious commerce brands.
• Collaborate with global experts across strategy, design, engineering, and commerce operations to deliver end‑to‑end transformation.
• Shape how our firm thinks about and delivers Shopify—building playbooks, growing a team, and influencing the direction of a high‑growth practice.

• Define and own the architectural patterns and best practices for enterprise Shopify Plus deployments, including headless/composable commerce, Shopify Functions, Markets Pro, and B2B capabilities.
• Lead the design of end‑to‑end commerce ecosystems spanning Shopify Plus and adjacent enterprise systems—ERP (SAP, Oracle, Net Suite), enterprise search (Elasticsearch, Algolia, Kenshoo), CDP/CRM (Salesforce, Segment, mParticle), PIM, OMS, and payment gateways.
• Evaluate and stay ahead of emerging Shopify platform capabilities (e.g., Shopify Audiences, Checkout Extensibility, Editions releases) and translate them into client‑ready solutions and internal playbooks.
• Serve as the practice’s ultimate authority on technical feasibility, scalability, and integration strategy for Shopify Plus engagements.

• Oversee technical delivery across global, cross‑functional teams delivering enterprise Shopify Plus solutions, ensuring quality, performance, and client satisfaction at scale.
• Establish governance frameworks, risk mitigation strategies, and delivery KPIs tailored to the pace and complexity of commerce platform engagements.
• Act as a technical escalation point and actively unblock delivery teams, modeling the kind of senior leadership and decisiveness the practice requires.
• Build, retain, and develop a high‑performing team of Shopify architects, engineers, and solution leads—setting clear expectations, creating growth paths, and fostering a culture of technical excellence.
• Own the technical narrative in the sales process: participate actively in discovery, solutioning, estimation, architecture design, and proposal development for Shopify Plus pursuits.
• Partner closely with business development and account teams to identify upsell and cross‑sell opportunities within existing Shopify Plus engagements.
• Serve as a credible, senior technical voice in client‑facing conversations—building trust, managing expectations, and positioning our practice as a strategic partner, not just a vendor.
• Maintain and…