Director Commerce Cloud Engineering

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a high-performing team of engineers and technical leads specializing in SAP Commerce Cloud.
• Define engineering best practices, coding standards, and agile methodologies across the platform team.
• Foster a culture of innovation, quality, and accountability within the engineering organization.
• Own the architectural vision and technical roadmap for SAP Commerce Cloud (B2B and/or B2C).
• Drive technical decisions, including integrations with SAP S/4HANA, ERP, CRM, and third-party systems.
• Ensure scalable, modular, and future-proof architecture aligned with enterprise strategy.
• Oversee planning, estimation, and execution of engineering deliverables and product releases.
• Work closely with Product Management and UX teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Track performance metrics, engineering velocity, and delivery quality.
• Partner with DevOps and Infrastructure teams to optimize CI/CD pipelines and cloud deployment strategies.
• Support a shift-left approach for testing, security, and performance validation.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product, QA, operations, and business units.
• Manage external development partners and SAP technical consultants as needed.
• Comfortable working in internationally distributed teams.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Specific Knowledge & Skills

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 10+ years of software engineering experience with 5+ years in SAP Commerce Cloud (Hybris) development and architecture.
• Strong expertise in Java, Spring Framework, REST APIs, and microservices architecture.
• Experience with cloud-native development and deployment (e.g., SAP Commerce Cloud in public cloud environments).
• Track record of leading large-scale, customer-facing commerce platforms.
• Deep knowledge of integration patterns with SAP backend systems (e.g., S/4HANA, SAP ERP, SAP CPI).
• Experience with Agile/Scrum development methodologies.
• Excellent problem-solving, communication, and team-building skills.
• SAP Certified Development Specialist – SAP Commerce Cloud.
• Experience with headless commerce, composable architecture, and MACH principles.
• Familiarity with frontend frameworks (e.g., Angular, React, Spartacus).
• Background in performance tuning, load testing, and site reliability engineering.

General Skills & Competencies

• Outstanding management and leadership skills and ability to attract, retain, motivate, develop, mentor and coach team members for high performance.
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills and ability to resolve disputes effectively.
• Outstanding presentation and public speaking skills.
• Expert independent decision making, analysis and problem solving skills.
• Understand, interpret and act on financial information and external trends that contributes to business profitability.
• Plan and manage complex and successful projects; understand available resources, develop timeline, budget and assign areas of responsibility.
• Lead teams to achieve company goals and solve complex business issues in creative and effective ways.
• Expert planning and organizational skills and techniques.
• Communicate effectively with senior management and key stakeholders.
• Excellent negotiating skills and ability to effectively manage internal and external relationships.
• Ability to influence, build relationships, understand organizational complexities, manage conflict and navigate politics.
• Broad professional and managerial skills with a full understanding of industry practices and company policies and procedures.
• Lead and develop virtual teams.
• Expert in multiple technical and business skills.
• Strategic planning skills.

Minimum Work Experience

Typically 12 or more years of increasing responsibility and complexity in terms of any applicable professional experience; 5 or more years of management experience.

Preferred Education

Typically a Bachelor's Degree or global equivalent in related discipline. Master's degree or global equivalent a plus.

Travel / Physical Demands

Travel typically less than 15%. Office environment. No special physical demands required.