Senior Director, Digital Commerce Engineering

## Senior Director, Digital Commerce Engineering
** Collierville,TN38017
** Posted: 08/06/2026

Employment Type:

Contract to Hire Category: IT - Management/Executive Job Number: 250848

Work Location:

On-Site##

Job Description Senior Director, Digital Commerce & Marketing Engineering  
** Full-Time | Executive Technology Leadership
** About the Company  The Intersect Group is partnering with a global organization undergoing significant digital transformation across its commerce, marketing, and customer experience platforms. The company is investing in modern cloud technologies, composable commerce architecture, and data-driven customer engagement strategies to support long-term growth across multiple channels and markets. This is an opportunity to join an organization committed to innovation, scalability, and delivering world-class digital experiences at enterprise scale.  

Role Summary  We are seeking a
** Senior Director of Digital Commerce & Marketing Engineering
** to lead the strategy, architecture, and engineering execution of a complex global digital commerce ecosystem. This executive-level leader will oversee the technical vision for commerce platforms, marketing technology integrations, customer-facing digital experiences, and the engineering organizations responsible for delivering them.
The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in modern software architecture, large-scale eCommerce platforms, Mar Tech ecosystems, and cloud-native engineering. This individual will partner closely with business, product, marketing, and technology leaders to build scalable digital experiences, align technology investments with commercial objectives, and accelerate innovation across multiple customer and partner channels.  

Key Responsibilities
* Define and execute the long-term architecture and engineering roadmap for digital commerce and marketing technology platforms.
* Lead the transition toward modern MACH architecture principles, including microservices, API-first, cloud-native, and headless commerce solutions.
* Architect and scale multi-tenant digital storefront platforms that support distributed dealer, partner, or customer ecosystems.
* Oversee integrations between commerce platforms and enterprise systems, including ERP, CRM, Order Management, Product Information Management (PIM), and fulfillment solutions.
* Drive adoption and governance of composable CMS and marketing technologies, enabling non-technical teams to create and manage digital experiences efficiently.
* Lead implementation of personalization, experimentation, search, merchandising, analytics, and customer engagement technologies.
* Establish engineering best practices across software development, automated testing, Dev Ops, CI/CD, and zero-downtime deployment strategies.
* Partner with data engineering and analytics teams to design event-driven architectures that support real-time customer, operational, and transactional insights.
* Ensure compliance with security, privacy, and regulatory requirements including PCI-DSS, GDPR, and CCPA.
* Build, mentor, and scale high-performing engineering, architecture, and technical leadership teams while managing strategic vendor relationships.

Key Requirements
* 10+ years of software engineering experience, including at least 5 years leading engineering teams, architects, or technology organizations within enterprise digital commerce environments.
* Proven experience architecting and scaling large-scale B2B, B2C, or multi-storefront eCommerce platforms supporting high transaction volumes and significant user traffic.
* Deep expertise in headless and composable commerce platforms such as commerce tools, Shopify Custom Storefronts, Elastic Path, or similar technologies.
* Strong experience designing distributed systems, microservices architectures, API ecosystems, and event-driven platforms.
* Hands-on knowledge of cloud-native technologies across AWS, Azure, and/or Google Cloud Platform environments.
* Extensive experience integrating commerce ecosystems with ERP, CRM, OMS, PIM, CDP, and marketing automation platforms.
* Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, Dev Ops methodologies, Infrastructure as Code, containerization, and Kubernetes-based deployments.
* Experience leading technical governance, platform modernization initiatives, budget management, and vendor oversight.
* Demonstrated ability to align engineering strategy with revenue growth, customer experience improvements, and long-term business objectives.
* Exceptional executive…