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Senior Director - Ecommerce Engineering

PhotonMemphis, TN🇺🇸United StatesPosted Sep 25, 2026

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Job Description

Senior Director – E-Commerce Engineering
Memphis, TN


Who are we?

For the past 20 years, we have powered many Digital Experiences for the Fortune 500. Since 1999, we have grown from a few people to more than 4000 team members across the globe that are engaged in various Digital Modernization. 

Position Overview
We are seeking a strategic and technology-driven Senior Director – E-Commerce Engineering to lead the architecture, development, and delivery of scalable e-commerce platforms and digital commerce solutions. This role will drive engineering strategy, platform modernization, customer experience, and operational excellence while leading high-performing engineering teams.

Key Responsibilities

  • Define and execute the e-commerce engineering strategy and technology roadmap aligned with business and customer objectives.
  • Lead architecture and development of scalable B2C/B2B e-commerce platforms, web applications, APIs, and microservices.
  • Drive modernization initiatives across commerce platforms, order management, payments, search, personalization, product catalog, pricing, and customer experience.
  • Partner with Product, Digital, Marketing, UX, Data, and Business teams to deliver seamless omnichannel experiences.
  • Establish engineering standards for cloud adoption, DevOps, CI/CD, security, scalability, performance, and reliability.
  • Lead integration with ERP, CRM, PIM, OMS, payment gateways, fulfillment, logistics, and third-party platforms.
  • Drive adoption of AI/ML, personalization, analytics, and automation to enhance e-commerce experiences and operational efficiency.
  • Build, mentor, and lead distributed engineering teams while fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement.
  • Manage technology vendors, engineering budgets, delivery timelines, and strategic technology partnerships.

Required Qualifications & Skills

  • 12+ years of experience in software engineering and technology leadership, with significant experience leading large engineering organizations.
  • Strong experience building and scaling enterprise e-commerce and digital commerce platforms.
  • Expertise in modern technologies including Java/.NET/Node.js, React/Angular, APIs, microservices, and cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/Google Cloud Platform).
  • Strong understanding of e-commerce architecture, distributed systems, databases, integration patterns, and high-volume transaction processing.
  • Experience with DevOps, CI/CD, Kubernetes, observability, security, and cloud-native engineering.
  • Strong understanding of performance, scalability, availability, and reliability engineering.
  • Experience with platforms such as Salesforce Commerce Cloud, Adobe Commerce/Magento, Shopify, SAP Commerce, or similar is preferred

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