**Introduction** A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You’ll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you’ll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences. **Your role and responsibilities** As an Application Architect for Commerce Transformation, you drive the strategic design and implementation of scalable, high-performance commerce platforms. You play a pivotal role in modernizing and optimizing commerce systems to support seamless customer experiences, operational agility, and business growth across digital and physical channels. Your primary responsibilities will include: • Design Commerce Architectures: Design microservices-based architectures that align with enterprise goals and customer expectations, leveraging deep expertise in enterprise architecture, digital commerce ecosystems, and omnichannel integration. • Implement End-to-End Solutions: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and implement end-to-end commerce solutions that integrate headless commerce platforms, APIs for real-time inventory, pricing, promotions, and order management. • Ensure Cloud-Native Solutions: Ensure that commerce solutions are cloud-native, resilient, and extensible, leveraging containerization, serverless computing, and CI/CD pipelines. • Orchestrate APIs: Orchestrate APIs for real-time inventory, pricing, promotions, and order management to support seamless customer experiences. • Lead Solution Delivery: Lead the delivery of commerce solutions that meet enterprise goals and customer expectations, while ensuring operational agility and business growth. **Required technical and professional expertise** • Enterprise Architecture Expertise: Experience with designing and implementing scalable, high-performance commerce platforms, leveraging deep expertise in enterprise architecture, digital commerce ecosystems, and omnichannel integration. • Microservices-Based Architecture Design: Experience in designing microservices-based architectures that align with enterprise goals and customer expectations, incorporating headless commerce platforms and APIs for real-time inventory, pricing, promotions, and order management. • Cloud-Native Solution Development: Experience with developing cloud-native, resilient, and extensible commerce solutions, utilizing containerization, serverless computing, and CI/CD pipelines. • API Orchestration: Experience in orchestrating APIs for real-time inventory, pricing, promotions, and order management to support seamless customer experiences. • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Experience working with cross-functional teams, including product managers, UX designers, DevOps engineers, and data scientists, to define and implement end-to-end commerce solutions. **Preferred technical and professional experience** • Containerization Knowledge: Experience with containerization tools like Docker and Kubernetes to develop cloud-native commerce solutions. • Serverless Computing Familiarity: Exposure to serverless computing concepts to design and implement scalable commerce platforms. • CI/CD Pipeline Experience: Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to ensure seamless delivery of commerce solutions. IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.