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Ref: HP324-744
Job description / Role
Job Purpose:
• Responsible for software development and administration of the applications released.
• Help shaping the backbone of the Digital Commerce architecture releasing amazing products for world-renowned brands.
• Stay abreast of trends and new technologies that relate to Digital Commerce to keep improving the platform.
• Achieve results through exceptional subject matter expertise, technology leadership, collaboration, and teamwork.
Key responsibilities:
• Design and develop applications to support the business needs;
• Lead assessment of business and technology requirements in order to create solution architecture;
• Owning the system architecture and keeping it well documented;
• Scale architecture with modern technologies leveraging on DevOps knowledge (AWS);
• Understand the capabilities of the team and engage where necessary to promote practice and learning;
• Help recruit and interview new team members, both in-house and outsourced;
• Deliver fit / gap analysis between requirements and OOTB features. Fit / gap analysis should detail any level of customization required;
• Defining the backbone, technical implementation and customization of the Magento Commerce platform;
• Provide product technical advice and insight to other team members;
• Build internal confidence and ensure team success with solid technical skills and knowledge, hands-on implementation capabilities, can-do attitude, excellent communication skills, reliability and commitment to deliver quality;
• Mentor other team members to acquire your knowledge whilst growing into a more senior role;
Functional Skills:
• Experience on JavaScript / J2EEs development and enhancement;
• Experience on customization of Microservices-driven architecture based on Node.JS;
• Experience on REST APIs (preferably Stateless) and exposing data repositories via API's on Magento Commerce;
• Experience on headless / abstract architectures in terms of back-end and front-end communication;
• Previous work on "web-speed" development (weekly releases) and comfort on managing teams/projects with tight deadlines and short release cycles;
• Worked with open source technologies Linux, Apache, Java, Python, Go, Node.JS;
• Worked with both front-end (React.JS, HTML5, CSS) and back-end (Node.JS, J2EEs, JSP, .NET, PHP etc.) teams / technologies;
• Worked on full stack web technologies or frameworks like Node.js, Meteor;
• Worked with hybrid / native mobile development technologies;
• Excel at planning, creating engineering teams and overseeing execution to meet commitments and deliverables with predictability;
• Experience implementing tools, processes, internal instrumentation, methodologies and resolving blockages;
• Maturity model of Hypermedia and RESTful services knowledge;
The following skills are plus:
• Setup of a 24 x 7 site with 99.99% availability across more than one geographical availability zone.
• Retail Management Systems capabilities understanding.
• Knowledge of JIRA system or Kanban boards for issues & tickets workflow management.
Requirements
Education & Experience:
• BA/BS degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics or related field;
• 6+ years of B2B / B2C Digital Commerce experience;
• 4 years of experience in installation, design and implementation of Digital Commerce solutions (Magento 2.0 is a big plus);
• Experience in working with / selecting / hiring / managing remote resources for development work in an agile environment;
• DevOps knowledge and understanding;
About the Company
Established in 1979, Al Tayer Group is a privately-held, diversified company with operations in 12 countries in the Middle East and beyond. With over 7,800 employees from 95 different nationalities, the Group has its headquarters in Dubai, UAE.
Al Tayer Group operates leading, quality-focused businesses in automobile sales and service, luxury and lifestyle retail, perfumes and cosmetics distribution, engineering as well as interiors contracting. The Groups portfolio includes several of the worlds leading brands such as Armani, Bvlgari, Banana Republic, Ford, Ferrari, Gucci, Gap, Harvey Nichols and Maserati. The Group operates over 180 stores across multiple markets in the Middle East. In addition, Al Tayer Group has investments in commercial real estate, contracting, supply chain management, precision tools manufacturing and travel agency services.