Lead Developer​/Technical Architect, eCommerce

Excelligence Learning Corporation is transforming its digital commerce ecosystem, replatforming from SAP Commerce Cloud (Hybris) to a modern, composable commerce architecture. We are seeking a Lead Developer / Technical Architect, eCommerce to provide hands‑on technical leadership throughout this transformation and take ownership of the platform following implementation.

This is a highly visible, hands‑on leadership role for someone who enjoys both designing architecture and building solutions
. You will establish technical direction, contribute code, review development work, guide engineering standards, and help drive delivery from implementation through production.

During the replatform, you will serve as Excelligence's senior technical resource alongside our implementation partner, with significant influence and design authority over the solutions being built. Following go‑live, you will take technical ownership of the platform and lead its continued evolution, performance, reliability, and scalability.

Our ecommerce businesses serve both institutional B2B customers—including schools, school districts, and early childhood programs—and direct‑to‑consumer customers
. B2B commerce represents the larger and more complex portion of our business, making capabilities such as punchout, quoting, purchase orders, contract pricing, tax exemptions, approval workflows, and account hierarchies critical to our architecture.

What You'll Do

Architecture & Engineering Leadership

• Own the end‑to‑end technical architecture across the storefront, commerce APIs, CMS, search, PIM, ERP, OMS, payments, tax, and related systems.
• Serve as the technical design authority for the implementation, reviewing and challenging architecture, technical approaches, and deliverables from implementation partners.
• Own the React‑based storefront architecture, including rendering strategy, caching, scalability, and performance.
• Define integration architecture across ERP, PIM, OMS, marketing, and other enterprise systems, including data contracts, synchronization patterns, APIs, events, and failure handling.
• Contribute directly to development and remain hands‑on with code, architecture, troubleshooting, and technical problem‑solving.
• Lead technical planning for data migration and cutover, including product catalogs, customer accounts, order history, content, SEO redirects, and release sequencing.
• Establish engineering standards for code reviews, automated testing, CI/CD, observability, environment management, security, and releases.
• Document key architectural decisions, technical standards, and trade‑offs.

Platform Ownership & Operations

• Own the stability, scalability, security, and performance of the ecommerce platform in production.
• Establish incident‑response practices, including monitoring, runbooks, escalation procedures, root‑cause analysis, and postmortems.
• Manage the technical relationship with commerce and technology vendors, including releases, roadmaps, upgrades, and escalations.
• Identify, prioritize, and manage technical debt.
• Drive continuous improvements in site speed, reliability, scalability, developer productivity, and overall customer experience.
• Ensure the platform is prepared for peak‑volume periods and business‑critical events.

Technical Delivery

• Lead the agile delivery process for the development team, including backlog refinement, sprint planning, estimation, standups, demos, and retrospectives.
• Break complex initiatives into incremental, demonstrable releases that deliver measurable business value.
• Partner closely with Product, Merchandising, Marketing, Operations, and other stakeholders to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Provide leadership with clear and timely visibility into technical…