Architect, Api Orchestration

**Who we are**:
As North America’s oldest startup and Canada’s purpose-driven digital marketplace, The Bay is on a high-growth mission to rewrite the rules of retail to help Canadians live a colorful life. If you believe in the power of our iconic brand and thrive on problem-solving at scale, we want you to join our team.

At The Bay, smart, high-performing team members will challenge you to learn and grow every day. We value ambitious work and great ideas grounded in data and insights. We're looking for talented people who love a fast-paced environment, embrace change, and are looking to make an impact with groundbreaking ideas.

**Architect - API Orchestration**

The Architect role will be responsible for defining, building, and delivering technical solutions for the Hudson’s Bay
Digital Technology team. Maintain the long-term technical vision alongside the day-to-day execution of new features
on the Hudson’s Bay eCommerce site.

**RESPONSIBILITIES**

? Work closely with our business partners to understand business requirements and provide an innovative and
efficient solution
? Work closely with various technology teams (Development, Infrastructure, PMO, etc.) to define and implement
elegant, scalable, and sustainable technical solutions using the Salesforce technologies
? Design and implement technical solutions to satisfy functional and non-functional requirements while
ensuring quality and timely delivery
? Lead development team to design and implement innovative solutions with a focus on adhering to standards,
best practices, and code quality techniques
? Conceptualize, architect, and design solutions for customers that meet customer business objectives, cost,
timeline, quality, and MVP
? Partner with other architects, vendors, partners, and business and technical teams to understand business needs
and translate them into capability/platform roadmaps and work toward realizing the roadmaps
? Help with triaging and fixing defects for the planned releases and production
? Assist with Salesforce platform management tasks such as app evaluations, profiles/org hierarchy design,
integration with other systems, capacity planning, defining SLA measurements, etc
? Create and enable best practices, governance measures, and patterns for custom and configured solutions on
the Salesforce platform.
? Make good, informed decisions around technical debt, 3rd party tools, and tradeoffs

**REQUIREMENTS**

? Minimum 12+ years of relevant Ecommerce or Enterprise-level development experience
? Experience in architecture and performance optimization of highly scalable e-commerce platforms
? Experience with designing and developing BFF(Backend For Frontend) orchestration/integration layer.
? Knowledge of (and a passion for) current trends and best practices in programming, including performance,
accessibility, and security.
? Experience in API-First principles that adheres to SLA.
? Experience in BFF principles and technologies, like GraphQL (Apollo, AWS AppSync).
? Experience and knowledge in Polyglot Persistence.
? Experience in Microservices and Serverless architecture on AWS.
? Experience with package managers like NPM, Yarn
? Experience with writing Unit tests, Load Testing, and Contract Testing
? Experience with build tools such as Gulp/Webpack
? Experience with Agile methodologies and collaboration Tools like Jira and Confluence.
? Experience with Typescript and NodeJS.
? Experience in GitHub and CICD.

**NICE TO HAVE**

? Have a background in B2C commerce Vertical
? Experience in SalesForce Commerce Cloud
? Experience working with SFCC Open Commerce API (OCAPI) or SCAPI

**Job Qualifications**:

- HBC provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment._