Designs and leads IBM Sterling OMS architecture for large-scale retail and omnichannel implementations. Responsibilities include order orchestration, inventory, sourcing, fulfillment, returns, and integrations with e-commerce, WMS, ERP, payment, and store systems. The role defines API and event-driven solutions, leads performance tuning and troubleshooting, reviews technical designs, and mentors distributed development teams. Requires deep Sterling OMS expertise, strong Java and integration skills, retail domain knowledge, and multiple full-lifecycle implementations.
This is a remote position.
Job OverviewWe are looking for a Sterling OMS Architect with strong experience in retail/e-commerce and omnichannel order management. The candidate will be responsible for designing scalable Sterling OMS solutions, leading technical architecture, integrations, and providing hands-on technical guidance to development teams.
- Design and lead IBM Sterling OMS architecture for large-scale retail and omnichannel implementations.
- Work on order orchestration, inventory, sourcing, fulfillment, shipments, cancellations, and returns.
- Design solutions supporting BOPIS, Ship-from-Store, Ship-from-DC, Ship-to-Store and curbside fulfillment.
- Architect integrations between Sterling OMS and e-commerce, WMS, ERP, inventory, payment and store systems.
- Provide technical guidance on Sterling services, APIs, agents, pipelines, extensions and configurations.
- Define scalable REST/SOAP, XML/JSON and event-driven integration solutions.
- Lead performance tuning, production troubleshooting and technical design reviews.
- Mentor Sterling OMS developers and provide technical leadership across onshore/offshore teams.
- 6+ years of hands-on IBM Sterling OMS experience.
- Strong experience with Sterling OMS 9.x/10.x and Sterling Web Store/Web SOM.
- Strong retail/omnichannel order management domain knowledge.
- Strong Java/J2EE, XML, XSLT, REST, SOAP, JSON and SQL skills.
- Experience with Oracle and/or DB2.
- Strong enterprise integration and API architecture experience.
- Experience with at least 2 full lifecycle Sterling OMS implementations.
- Strong understanding of order sourcing, inventory, fulfillment and returns.
- Experience with large-scale retail/e-commerce platforms.
- Kafka/event-driven architecture experience.
- Cloud, CI/CD and DevOps experience.
- Experience leading onshore/offshore technical teams.
Ideal Candidate: A hands-on Sterling OMS Architect with deep retail domain expertise, strong integration skills, and experience designing and delivering end-to-end omnichannel OMS solutions.
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