Liferay​/eCommerce Technical Lead

The Opportunity

BARBRI is looking for a Liferay eCommerce Architect to serve as the technical lead for our eCommerce technology stack. You’ll own the architectural roadmap and implementation for our Liferay DXP Commerce experience—modernizing a legacy implementation, reducing tech debt, and unlocking faster, safer delivery. This role blends deep Liferay/DXP expertise with pragmatic leadership: you’ll guide engineering, shape platform strategy, and partner closely with Product, Security, and external vendors.

• Own the eCommerce Architecture. Lead end-to-end architecture for Liferay DXP + Commerce (catalog, pricing, promotions, checkout, order orchestration, content, personalization, search). Define target/reference architectures, guardrails, and patterns for scale, resilience, and cost.
• Modernize the experience. Evolve us toward modular, maintainable solutions by leveraging leading-edge Liferay platform features such as client extensions.
• Tame tech debt. Establish a prioritized remediation plan, accelerate defect burn‑down, and improve stability/performance through code standards, platform upgrades, caching, and observability.
• Lead delivery. Provide technical leadership to a cross functional squad (backend, frontend, QA, Dev Ops). Unblock teams, conduct design reviews, and make crisp tradeoffs between speed, quality, and risk.
• Platform stewardship. Define and enforce API contracts, versioning, extension points, and integration patterns across payments, tax, identity/SSO, marketing tools, and analytics.
• Data & search. Ensure high quality product/catalog data flows, metadata strategy, and search/merchandising that supports discovery, conversion, and SEO.
• Performance & reliability. Set SLOs, implement RUM/APM, capacity planning, synthetic tests, and chaos friendly patterns (bulkheads, timeouts, retries, idempotency).
• Security & compliance. Partner with security secrets, PCI-relevant flows, PII, and secure coding; drive threat modeling and regular pentest remediation.
• Vendor & partner leadership. Set technical direction for services partners, review SOWs, and hold vendors to measurable engineering outcomes.
• Delivery excellence. Raise the bar on SDLC: branching, CI/CD, trunk‑based practices, test automation, quality gates, and progressive delivery (feature flags).
• Road mapping & stakeholder comms. Translate business goals into a sequenced platform roadmap. Communicate status and risks clearly to executives and cross‑functional leaders.
• Provide guidance. Work with end‑users in the business to drive adoption of best practices in content creation, delivery, and design.

• Depth in Liferay. 7+ years implementing Liferay DXP (Portal/Content/Commerce), including extensions, OSGi modules, upgrade paths, and the headless toolset; experience with Liferay Commerce capabilities in production.
• Modern front‑end integration. Strong experience with React and DXP client‑extension/remote‑app patterns; comfort designing for decoupled or progressively decoupled architectures.
• eCommerce domain expertise. Practical understanding of catalog models, entitlement/pricing, promotions, checkout/payment/tax, order management, B2B/B2C flows, and multi‑site/multi‑catalog scenarios.
• Integration architecture. Proven patterns for integrating DXP with CRM, payments, tax, search, marketing, and analytics—plus eventing, queuing, and data contracts.
• SDLC leadership. Track record improving delivery speed and quality through architecture runway, quality gates, and CI/CD; comfortable mentoring engineers and guiding code quality.
• Reliability mindset. Experience with performance tuning, capacity planning, caching/CDN, and production observability (APM, logs, traces, dashboards, alerts).
• Security & privacy. Familiar with secure coding practices, OWASP Top 10, and compliance considerations across commerce flows.
• Communication & influence. Executive‑friendly communication; ability to align stakeholders, guide partners, and make decisions with incomplete information.

• Liferay upgrade/migration leadership (e.g., 7.x to latest, Commerce adoption).
• Search/merchandising experience (e.g., Elastic or headless search adapters).
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