Shopify Technical Architect

Summary

Join Blue Acorn iCi, an Infosys company, as a Shopify Technical Architect! You will provide technical project oversight and thought leadership to engineering, project management, and sales teams. Key responsibilities include technical leadership of projects, ensuring adherence to best practices, and architecting platform solutions. You will also support sales initiatives and client communication. This role requires significant experience in web application development and a deep understanding of the SDLC and Agile processes. Blue Acorn iCi offers a competitive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability, paid time off, and 401k.

Requirements

• Minimum 3-5 years of experience managing technical teams
• 5+ years of experience in design, development and support of large scale web application development
• Thorough and deep knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle and Agile processes
• Knowledge of or ability to understand technologies such as Shopify CLI, Shopify hydrogen, Shopify Liquid, Javascript frameworks (React, Next.js, Vanilla JS), HTML, CSS/SCSS, APIs & promises (Soap, REST, GraphQL), Git
• Ability to communicate and document technical designs to both internal and external technical resources
• Capable of driving and defending design models and best practices

Responsibilities

• Technical ownership and authority of assigned client project
• Enforce best practices for development on the platform
• Ensure solution that is delivered is consistent with company development policies and standards
• Peer programming when needed
• Architect and design platform solutions and integrations based on client requirements
• Participate in project discoveries to provide technical support and to ensure that we understand client request from an engineering perspective
• Initial technical escalation point for the project team and clients
• Support the project team through key project events (e.g planning sessions, release demos, UAT sessions, site launch)
• Provide highly efficient development effort when necessary
• Stay abreast of technical and functional dependencies across multiple initiatives
• Provide assistance for onboarding and training of new employees and/or external team members
• Communicating with prospective clients regarding our processes and potential architectures for solutions
• Estimate level of effort for potential projects
• Support sales staff with training and demos for platform solutions

Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision insurance
• Life insurance
• Disability
• Paid time off
• 401(k)