Senior Solutions Architect / Technical Lead

Responsibilities

1. Technical Leadership & Team Ownership

• Act as the technical leader for the engineering team.
  

• Serve as the first technical escalation point for developers.
  

• Provide technical direction, mentoring and guidance to developers.
  

• Review technical approaches and implementation plans.
  

• Make day-to-day technical decisions without unnecessary escalation to the CTO.
  

• Establish engineering standards, coding practices and development processes.
  

• Conduct or oversee code reviews and architectural reviews.
  

• Identify technical debt and establish practical remediation plans.
  

• Build the team's ability to solve complex technical problems independently.
  

2. Solution & Application Architecture

• Own the architecture of complex WordPress and WooCommerce applications.
  

• Translate business and functional requirements into technical solutions.
  

• Define application components, data flows, APIs, integrations and dependencies.
  

• Evaluate architectural alternatives and clearly communicate trade-offs.
  

• Identify scalability, reliability, security and maintainability risks.
  

• Create and maintain architecture diagrams and technical documentation.
  

• Ensure new features fit into the overall platform architecture rather than becoming isolated implementations.
  

3. WordPress & WooCommerce

• Design and oversee complex WooCommerce implementations.
  

• Guide architecture for custom themes, plugins and WooCommerce extensions.
  

• Establish appropriate approaches for products, attributes, options, pricing, metadata, cart, checkout and order workflows.
  

• Review third-party plugins and assess their technical suitability and risks.
  

• Ensure customizations follow WordPress and WooCommerce best practices.
  

• Guide the team in maintaining upgradeability and long-term maintainability.
  

4. ShapeDiver & Product Configuration

• Provide technical ownership for ShapeDiver and other product configurator integrations.
  

• Design the interaction between the configurator, WooCommerce, ERP/pricing systems and order workflows.
  

• Guide configuration metadata, product options, add-ons and pricing integration.
  

• Review communication between the configurator and WooCommerce.
  

• Identify performance, API, browser and integration constraints.
  

• Ensure the architecture can scale as products, configurations and storefronts increase.
  

5. Enterprise Integrations

• Architect integrations between WooCommerce and external systems including:
  

  • ERP
    

  • Pricing and inventory systems
    

  • Payment gateways
    

  • CRM systems
    

  • Shipping providers
    

  • Third-party SaaS platforms
    

  • REST APIs
    

  • Product configurators
    

• Define API contracts, authentication, data mapping, error handling, retries, logging and synchronization strategies.
  

• Identify integration failure scenarios and appropriate recovery mechanisms.
  

• Ensure integrations are reliable, observable and maintainable.
  

6. Technical Planning, Estimation & Delivery

• Work with the BA Lead to understand requirements and identify technical implications.
  

• Convert functional requirements into technical implementation plans.
  

• Break large requirements into technical components and development tasks.
  

• Provide technical estimates and identify dependencies.
  

• Identify technical risks and blockers before they affect project delivery.
  

• Work closely with the PM on technical sequencing, dependencies and delivery planning.
  

• Provide technical status and risk information to the PM.
  

• Ensure developers have sufficient technical clarity before implementation begins.
  

7. Performance & Scalability

• Diagnose application, PHP, MySQL, AJAX, caching and infrastructure performance issues.
  

• Optimize database queries and data access patterns.
  

• Establish appropriate caching and object-caching strategies.
  

• Review application architecture for scalability.
  

• Investigate production performance problems and conduct root-cause analysis.
  

• Define and monitor meaningful technical performance metrics.
  

8. Infrastructure, DevOps & Reliability

• Work with infrastructure/hosting teams on application architecture and deployment requirements.
  

• Understand Linux, PHP-FPM, web servers, MySQL, Redis/object caching, CDN and monitoring.
  

• Guide development, QA, staging and production environment strategy.
  

• Establish appropriate Git, branching, CI/CD, deployment and rollback practices.
  

• Participate in production incident investigation and resolution.
  

• Improve application reliability, observability and recoverability.
  

9. Security

• Establish secure development and architecture practices.
  

• Review authentication, authorization, API security, data protection and input validation.
  

• Identify application and infrastructure security risks.
  

• Guide remediation of vulnerabilities.
  

• Participate in security and architecture reviews.
  

10. Collaboration with BA, QA & PM

With BA

• Review requirements for technical feasibility.
  

• Identify missing technical details and edge cases.
  

• Provide technical alternatives and constraints.
  

• Help establish technically meaningful acceptance criteria.
  

With QA

• Identify high-risk areas requiring additional testing.
  

• Ensure architecture and implementation are testable.
  

Requirements

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