Senior Solutions Architect Technical Lead

Responsibilities

• 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 teams ability to solve complex technical problems independently.
  

• 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.
  

• 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.
  

• 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.
  

• 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.
  

• 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.
  

• 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.
  

• 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.
  

• 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.
  

• Review requirements for technical feasibility.
  

• Identify missing technical details and edge cases.
  

• Provide technical alternatives and constraints.
  

• Help establish technically meaningful acceptance criteria.
  

• Identify high-risk areas requiring additional testing.
  

• Ensure architecture and implementation are testable.