Senior Manager, eCommerce Engineering & Digital Platforms – 5638
Location: Sandy Springs, GA (Hybrid - 3 Days Onsite Weekly)
Compensation: $150,000 - $180,000 Base Salary + 15% Annual Bonus
Target Total Compensation: $172,500 - $207,000
Employment Type: Full-Time/Direct Hire
Tier4 Group is seeking a highly technical, hands-on Senior Manager, eCommerce Engineering & Digital Platforms to lead the strategy, architecture, and delivery of a growing digital commerce ecosystem. This role will lead a small team of onshore and offshore developers while driving enhancements across Shopify Plus, enterprise integrations, and supporting digital platforms.
We're looking for a technology leader who remains actively involved in architecture, technical decision-making, platform optimization, and team development. This is an ideal opportunity for someone who enjoys combining engineering leadership with hands-on problem solving in a fast-paced, growth-oriented environment.
Key Responsibilities
Technology & Platform Leadership
- Own the technical strategy, architecture, and roadmap for eCommerce and digital platforms.
- Lead the ongoing enhancement and optimization of a Shopify Plus environment supporting both DTC and B2B initiatives.
- Drive the design, development, and support of scalable, secure, and high-performing commerce solutions.
- Evaluate and implement new technologies, integrations, and platform capabilities that improve customer experience and business outcomes.
Engineering Leadership
- Lead, mentor, and develop a team of local and offshore software engineers.
- Establish and maintain coding standards, development best practices, and quality assurance processes.
- Conduct performance reviews, coaching, career development planning, and workforce planning activities.
- Serve as a senior technical resource and trusted advisor to engineering and business stakeholders.
Architecture & Integrations
- Lead architecture decisions across Shopify Plus, APIs, middleware platforms, cloud services, and enterprise integrations.
- Ensure platform scalability, reliability, performance, and security.
- Partner with Product, Marketing, Sales, Customer Service, and business leadership to deliver technology solutions aligned with strategic objectives.
- Support integrations with ERP, CRM, customer support, and other third-party platforms.
Project Delivery
- Oversee software development projects from planning through deployment.
- Lead Agile development processes and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Balance strategic planning with hands-on involvement in architecture reviews, technical troubleshooting, and development oversight.
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of eCommerce software development experience supporting DTC and B2B platforms.
- 4+ years of hands-on Shopify Plus experience, including advanced platform capabilities and integrations.
- 2+ years of experience designing, implementing, or supporting headless commerce architectures.
- 6+ years of experience leading software development teams, including offshore resources.
- Proven experience delivering scalable, high-volume eCommerce platforms.
- Strong understanding of API-driven architectures, integrations, and enterprise systems.
- Experience leading Agile software development teams and initiatives.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and leadership skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with ERP integrations such as NetSuite, Microsoft Dynamics, SAP, or similar platforms.
- Experience with middleware and integration tools such as Celigo.
- Exposure to AWS and modern cloud-based application architectures.
- Experience supporting mobile applications (iOS and Android).
- Experience with Jira, Monday.com, Salesforce, Zendesk, or similar tools.
- Shopify certifications or related technical certifications.
Top Must-Haves
- 10+ years of eCommerce development experience (DTC & B2B)
- 4+ years of hands-on Shopify Plus experience
- 6+ years leading and mentoring software development teams
- Experience with headless commerce architecture
- Strong hands-on technical leadership and architecture experience
- Experience with enterprise integrations, APIs, and scalable commerce platforms
Why Candidates Are Interested
- Hands-on engineering leadership role
- Ownership of platform strategy and technical roadmap
- Small, high-impact team environment (2 local and 3 offshore developers)
- Modern Shopify ecosystem with enterprise integrations
- High visibility and influence across technology and business leadership teams
