Senior Director, Digital Commerce & Marketing Engineering
Full-Time | Executive Technology Leadership
About the Company
The Intersect Group is partnering with a global organization undergoing significant digital transformation across its commerce, marketing, and customer experience platforms. The company is investing in modern cloud technologies, composable commerce architecture, and data-driven customer engagement strategies to support long-term growth across multiple channels and markets. This is an opportunity to join an organization committed to innovation, scalability, and delivering world-class digital experiences at enterprise scale.
Role Summary
We are seeking a Senior Director of Digital Commerce & Marketing Engineering to lead the strategy, architecture, and engineering execution of a complex global digital commerce ecosystem. This executive-level leader will oversee the technical vision for commerce platforms, marketing technology integrations, customer-facing digital experiences, and the engineering organizations responsible for delivering them.
The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in modern software architecture, large-scale eCommerce platforms, MarTech ecosystems, and cloud-native engineering. This individual will partner closely with business, product, marketing, and technology leaders to build scalable digital experiences, align technology investments with commercial objectives, and accelerate innovation across multiple customer and partner channels.
Key Responsibilities
- Define and execute the long-term architecture and engineering roadmap for digital commerce and marketing technology platforms.
- Lead the transition toward modern MACH architecture principles, including microservices, API-first, cloud-native, and headless commerce solutions.
- Architect and scale multi-tenant digital storefront platforms that support distributed dealer, partner, or customer ecosystems.
- Oversee integrations between commerce platforms and enterprise systems, including ERP, CRM, Order Management, Product Information Management (PIM), and fulfillment solutions.
- Drive adoption and governance of composable CMS and marketing technologies, enabling non-technical teams to create and manage digital experiences efficiently.
- Lead implementation of personalization, experimentation, search, merchandising, analytics, and customer engagement technologies.
- Establish engineering best practices across software development, automated testing, DevOps, CI/CD, and zero-downtime deployment strategies.
- Partner with data engineering and analytics teams to design event-driven architectures that support real-time customer, operational, and transactional insights.
- Ensure compliance with security, privacy, and regulatory requirements including PCI-DSS, GDPR, and CCPA.
- Build, mentor, and scale high-performing engineering, architecture, and technical leadership teams while managing strategic vendor relationships.
Key Requirements
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including at least 5 years leading engineering teams, architects, or technology organizations within enterprise digital commerce environments.
- Proven experience architecting and scaling large-scale B2B, B2C, or multi-storefront eCommerce platforms supporting high transaction volumes and significant user traffic.
- Deep expertise in headless and composable commerce platforms such as commercetools, Shopify Custom Storefronts, Elastic Path, or similar technologies.
- Strong experience designing distributed systems, microservices architectures, API ecosystems, and event-driven platforms.
- Hands-on knowledge of cloud-native technologies across AWS, Azure, and/or Google Cloud Platform environments.
- Extensive experience integrating commerce ecosystems with ERP, CRM, OMS, PIM, CDP, and marketing automation platforms.
- Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, DevOps methodologies, Infrastructure as Code, containerization, and Kubernetes-based deployments.
- Experience leading technical governance, platform modernization initiatives, budget management, and vendor oversight.
- Demonstrated ability to align engineering strategy with revenue growth, customer experience improvements, and long-term business objectives.
- Exceptional executive communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence technical and non-technical audiences.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- Experience with Builder.io, Contentful, or other composable visual CMS platforms.
- Hands-on knowledge of Customer Data Platforms (CDPs), identity resolution, server-side tracking, and marketing attribution technologies.
- Experience with experimentation and feature management solutions such as LaunchDarkly or similar platforms.
- Expertise with modern frontend frameworks including Next.js, Nuxt, and server-side rendering architectures.
- Experience implementing enterprise observability strategies utilizing platforms such as Datadog.
- Strong knowledge of Snowflake, event streaming platforms, and real-time analytics ecosystems.
- Experience managing global engineering teams and hybrid delivery models that include system integrators, consulting firms, and offshore partners.
Why Join This Opportunity?
This is a transformational leadership opportunity for an executive who enjoys building modern digital ecosystems at enterprise scale. The successful candidate will shape the future of commerce, digital marketing, and customer experience platforms while influencing strategic technology decisions across the organization. You'll have the opportunity to lead large-scale modernization initiatives, mentor high-performing teams, and drive measurable business impact through technology innovation.
Apply Today
If you are passionate about modern commerce architecture, scalable engineering organizations, and delivering exceptional digital customer experiences, we would like to hear from you. Please submit your resume and contact information to The Intersect Group for immediate consideration. Qualified candidates are encouraged to apply as the search is actively underway.
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