Company Description
Merkle is a data-driven, technology-enabled, global performance marketing agency that specializes in the delivery of unique, personalized customer experiences across platforms and devices. For more than 30 years, Fortune 1000 companies and leading nonprofit organizations have partnered with Merkle to maximize the value of their customer portfolios. The agency's heritage in data, technology, and analytics forms the foundation for its unmatched skills in understanding consumer insights that inspire people-based marketing strategies. Its combined strengths in performance media, customer experience, customer relationship management, loyalty, and enterprise marketing technology guide improved marketing results and competitive advantage. With 9,600+ employees, Merkle is headquartered in Columbia, Maryland, with 50+ additional offices throughout the US, EMEA, and APAC. In 2016, the agency joined the Dentsu Aegis Network. For more information, contact Merkle at 1-877-9-Merkle or visit www.merkleinc.com.
Job Description
We are looking for a Adobe Commerce Solutions Architect. You will create scalable, maintainable, and well-documented solutions based on the Magento software platform or other PHP-based platforms. You will create complex site architectures to support multiple integration points, oversee the implementation of the design, attend client discovery meetings, estimate new projects, explain technical concepts to clients and non-technical teammates, and help resolve technical issues.
- You will provide solution architecture for the business problem, platform integration with third-party services, developing complex features for our clients' needs.
- You will assist our sales teams in project estimation and questions that arise during the pre-sales process.
- You will engage with partners to understand required capabilities, integrating business knowledge with technical solutions.
- You will use Mobile First, Responsive Web Design, and UX concepts with the ability to put them into practice.
- You will design and implement development and testing workflows.
- You will quickly learn new processes, software, and technology and apply it to your daily routine.
- You will improve web server configurations and scaling web applications.
- You will create engaging and interactive e-commerce applications.
- You will build back-end and front-end code for web applications.
- You will stay ahead of web developments and trends and are passionate about collaborating with like-minded teams of engineers to share your interests.
Qualifications
- Experience leading complex Adobe Commerce implementations.
- Familiarity with Adobe Experience Platform (AEP) and rest of the Adobe Martech suite.
- Experienced with Adobe Commerce re-platforming and data migration from other commerce platforms.
- Knowledge of Adobe Commerce architecture to manage integrations and data flows with external systems like ERP/POS, PIM, middleware while using methodologies such as API and flat files.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a related field; Master’s degree or commensurate experience.
- Experience in project and solution estimation and team structure definition.
- Experience engaging with partners to understand required capabilities, integrating business knowledge with technical solutions.
- Broad knowledge of program, project, and knowledge management processes and tools.
- In-depth experience translating account needs into a strategic implementation plan.
- Demonstrated skills in negotiation and leadership. Demonstrated excellence in written and oral communications, including presentations to senior management.
- Must have a comprehensive and detailed knowledge of issues within the Internet economy, which may include third-party solution providers and competitors.
- Experience defining new architectures and ability to guide an independent project from an architectural standpoint.
- Expertise in online, on-demand technologies and modern training methods.
- 7+ years’ PHP development experience required.
- Proficiency with PHP frameworks such as Zend framework.
- In-depth experience with HTML/CSS, JavaScript & JQuery, XML, MySQL, PHP.
- Proficiency with PHP and MySQL from an OOP perspective, database schema design, LAMP Server administration.
- You want to participate in project planning, design review, and architectural meetings.
- Competent knowledge of e-commerce data organization and relationships
Additional Information
Additionally, this position is eligible for discretionary incentive compensation. Our incentive compensation plan is subject to change. A range of medical, dental, vision, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and other benefits also are available. For more information about dentsu benefits, please visit dentsubenefitsplus.com.
This job is fully remote.
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Dentsu is an integrated growth and transformation partner to the world’s leading organizations. Founded in 1901 in Tokyo, Japan, and now present in over 145 countries and regions, it has a proven track record of nurturing and developing innovations, combining the talents of its global network of leadership brands to develop impactful and integrated growth solutions for clients. Dentsu delivers end-to-end experience transformation (EX) by integrating its services across Media, CXM and Creative, while its business transformation (BX) mindset pushes the boundaries of transformation and sustainable growth for brands, people and society.
Dentsu, Innovating to Impact.
Find out more:
https://www.dentsu.com/
https://www.group.dentsu.com/en/
We are champions for meaningful progress and we strive to be a force for good—for our people, for our clients, for the industry and for our society. We keep our people at the center, creating space for growth, understanding and learning so they can thrive. We embed diversity, in our mindset, in our solutions and in our teams to empower an inclusive, equitable and culturally fluent environment. Building this culture within our teams makes us better collaborators with each other and with our clients, driving better outcomes for all.
Dentsu (the "Company") is committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and will not discriminate against an applicant or employee of the Company, on the basis of age, sex, sexual orientation, race, color, creed, religion, ethnicity, national origin, alienage or citizenship, disability, marital status, veteran or military status, genetic information, or any other legally-recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws, regulations or ordinances. Applicants with disabilities may be entitled to reasonable accommodation under the terms of the Americans with Disabilities Act and/or certain state or local laws. A reasonable accommodation is a change in the way things are normally done that will ensure an equal employment opportunity without imposing an undue hardship on the Company. Please contact your recruiter if you need assistance completing any forms or to otherwise participate in the application process or to request or discuss an accommodation in connection with a job at the Company to which you are applying.
What We Do
Dentsu is the largest agency brand and fifth largest agency group in the world.
We provide a wide range of services in eight business domains:
Marketing
Digital Marketing
Creative Sphere
Promotions
Media
Content
PR
Global Business
With more than 60,000 professionals in over 145 countries and regions, Dentsu identifies—through a variety of communication domains—the core issues faced by our clients.
We then provide the optimized, integrated solutions required to solve these issues.