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Principal Business Systems Architect

Posted 8 Days Ago
Remote
Hiring Remotely in United States
Expert/Leader
Remote
Hiring Remotely in United States
Expert/Leader
Serves as the senior-most business systems architect and final technical authority across CRM, billing, marketing operations, revenue, and integration platforms. Defines target-state architecture, modernization and decommissioning strategies, technical roadmaps, solution designs, and build specifications. Partners with executive stakeholders, resolves cross-system design decisions, evaluates build-versus-buy choices, manages risks and tradeoffs, and maintains architecture documentation. The role supports Salesforce, Marketo, Zuora, CPQ, quote-to-cash, and order-to-revenue systems.
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Welcome to the Agentic Commerce Era

At Commerce, our mission is to empower businesses to innovate, grow, and thrive with our open, AI-driven commerce ecosystem. As the parent company of BigCommerce, Feedonomics, and Makeswift, we connect the tools and systems that power growth, enabling businesses to unlock the full potential of their data, deliver seamless and personalized experiences across every channel, and adapt swiftly to an ever-changing market. We believe in harnessing AI responsibly to unlock new possibilities, and we’re looking for individuals who use it intentionally to solve problems, accelerate outcomes, and expand what’s possible in their role. Our purpose is to help businesses confidently solve complex commerce challenges so they can build smarter, adapt faster, and grow on their own terms. If you want to be part of a team of bold builders, sharp thinkers, and technical trailblazers who shape the future of commerce, this is the place for you.

This is the senior-most individual-contributor technical role in the Business Systems organization. You are the final architectural authority across our CRM, billing, and integration systems and the technical counterpart to stakeholders in Go to Market, Finance, and Marketing.


You will partner with leaders across the organization to understand pain points and create solutions for our greatest challenges. You'll operate across our tech stack including Salesforce, Marketo, Zuora and our integration layer, with a mandate to turn a complex, overly customized system landscape into one coherent architecture.


What You’ll Do

 

  • End-to-end systems architecture across CRM, billing, Marketing Ops, Revenue, and the integration/middleware layer
  • The target-state architecture that other teams build against; you set the destination, teams own delivery within it
  • Legacy modernization strategy, including active initiatives like SFDC Legacy decommissioning and the migration of Zuora integration ownership into Salesforce Lightning
  • Technical due diligence on major platform decisions: what to build, buy, retire, or replatform
  • Work directly with stakeholders to understand pain points and translate them into prioritized technical requirements, listening first and asking questions until the real problem is clear
  • Define and maintain the target-state systems architecture across Business Applications, and translate it into a sequenced, fundable roadmap
  • Serve as the final architectural authority on cross-system design decisions, resolving disagreements and explaining plainly what will or won’t work against scalability, security, cost, and maintainability, with candor about risks and tradeoffs
  • Strong communication skills, ability to manage conflict and drive consensus based on shared understanding of explicit goals, and the confidence to push back respectfully when a request does not fit
  • Create solution designs and build specifications and hand them off to the developers and admins who implement them, supporting questions during build as a collaborative partner to the team
  • Own the technical strategy for legacy decommissioning, including SFDC Legacy retirement and modernization of related integrations and workflows, with a strong bias toward follow-through
  • Keep architecture documentation current: system diagrams, integration maps, and decision records, treating documentation as part of the job rather than an afterthought


Who Are You

 

  • 10+ years in enterprise architecture, solutions architecture, or a senior technical IC leadership role, with experience spanning CRM and billing/ERP rather than a single-system specialization, and a self-motivated learner who picks up new platforms quickly
  • Experience with GTM/revenue systems (Salesforce or HubSpot), CPQ, quote-to-cash, and order-to-revenue flows
  • Proven experience leading legacy system modernization or decommissioning at scale, including managing risk and sequencing migration
  • Demonstrated experience acting as the final technical authority, with the humility to listen and change course when presented with better information
  • Strong written communication skills, comfortable documenting complex technical tradeoffs clearly
  • Comfortable operating within a standardize-first review process, including having customization decisions signed off by the VP of Technology

Nice to Have

 

  • Experience with Zuora or a comparable billing/subscription platform
  • Experience standing up or scaling AI-assisted engineering tooling
  • Prior experience at a company of similar scale and complexity managing multiple platforms, actively modernizing legacy systems

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(Pay Transparency Range: $164,000.00 - $228,000.00)

Work Where You Thrive

Commerce is a remote-first company. For team members in Austin, Atlanta, and London, we offer optional collaborative workspaces for team gatherings, workshops, and in-person connection. Use them whenever they’re helpful, balancing focused individual work with meaningful in-person collaboration.


Compensation Transparency


The national base salary range for this role is posted above in this job post.


Final compensation will be determined based on factors such as relevant experience, skills, qualifications and geographic location. We also consider internal equity to help ensure fair and consistent pay practices across our teams.


Where applicable, this role may also be eligible for variable compensation (such as bonus or commission), equity, and benefits in accordance with local policies. Details will be shared during the hiring process. We are committed to equitable and transparent pay practices that align to market data, internal equity, and individual contribution.


Inclusion and Belonging

At Commerce, we believe that celebrating the unique histories, perspectives and abilities of every employee makes a difference for our company, our customers and our community. We are an equal opportunity employer and the inclusive atmosphere we build together will make room for every person to contribute, grow and thrive.

We are committed to creating an inclusive and accessible hiring experience for all candidates. If you require accommodations or adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process, please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.

Learn more about the Commerce team, culture and benefits at https://www.commerce.com/careers/

Identity Verification

To protect our candidates and company from fraudulent activity, our interview process includes a government ID and biometric verification via Persona, our trusted identity verification provider. All information is collected and processed securely in accordance with applicable privacy laws.


Protect Yourself Against Hiring Scams: Our Corporate Disclaimer 

Commerce, along with many other employers, has become the subject of fraudulent job offers to hopeful prospective job seekers.
Be advised:
Commerce does not offer jobs to individuals who do not go through our formal hiring process.
Commerce will never:

  • require payment of recruitment fees from candidates;
  • request personally identifiable information through unsanctioned websites or applications;
  • attempt to solicit money from you as part of the hiring process or as part of an employment offer;
  • solicit money to complete visa requirements as part of a job offer.

If you receive unsolicited offers of employment from Commerce, we urge you to be extremely cautious and avoid engaging or responding.

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