Lead Solutions Architect - Global E-commerce, Seller Business

Description

The Global E-commerce, Seller Business team plays a critical role in driving the success of our Global E-commerce platform. We are dedicated to building and nurturing a thriving ecosystem of local and abroad sellers who bring diverse products, brands, and innovations to our marketplace on Tiktok.

We're looking for a Lead Solution Architect to join our team and help our global merchants and partners to grow their business. You will lead the effort of building an influential platform from scratch and you will solve the end to end OpenAPI-driven e-commerce domains, like order and fulfillment, merchandise, promotion, live and affiliate, IM and CRM, etc. You will be challenged by complex sets of business and technical challenges as you leverage a broad range of technical disciplines and cross-team collaboration to ensure success for our clients and to unlock the potential provided by our e-commerce platform capabilities.

As a Solution Architect, you will:
- Be the principal owner for the development and delivery of end to end OpenAPI-based integrated solutions, like order and fulfillment, merchandise, promotion, live and affiliate, IM and CRM, etc.
- Provide architectural design, roadmap planning for Partner Ecosystem platforms, such as integration with top global e-commerce sites like Salesforce Commerce Cloud, Channel Advisor, Shopify, etc.
- Provide architectural design, roadmap planning and execution for scalability, availability, capital loss prevention of the platform.
- Work closely with cross-functional teams and key account merchants to support the business.
- Be the single point of contact for the owned domain.

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications:
- 5 years of production coding experience, or 2 years of experience in technical solution architecture.
- Proficient in one or more general-purpose programming languages, such as Python, Go, Java, or C/C++.
- Strong ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to non-technical audiences.
- Proven collaboration skills, with experience working across cross-functional teams and stakeholder groups, both internally and externally.
- Solid understanding of open platform APIs and backend systems, with the ability to clearly articulate module structures, dependencies, workflows, and logic.

Preferred Qualifications:
- 5 years of experience in e-commerce or related domains, or the ability to quickly develop a strong understanding of e-commerce business models.
- Highly self-driven and people-oriented, able to collaborate effectively with a wide range of clients and internal partners to independently identify key issues and drive optimization solutions.
- A creative problem solver who can thrive in dynamic environments with minimal guidance or supervision.