Specialised Engineer
- Posted 14 May 2026
- LocationLondon
- Job type Contract
- Discipline Technology
Job description
The Role
This role has a direct and measurable impact on the stability, scalability, and evolution of large‑scale digital commerce platform operating within consumer retail and digital‑first industries. The HCL Commerce Specialized Engineer plays a critical role in enabling always‑on customer journeys, and work on mission‑critical platform that must handle peak traffic events, large user base, complex catalogue, pricing, and order management scenarios as well as contribute to programs involving platform modernization, cloud adoption, and continuous digital enhancement, often within multi‑year transformation initiatives
Your responsibilities:
Design, develop, and maintain HCL Commerce / WebSphere Commerce Suite components and extensions.
Build and enhance backend services using Java, J2EE, Spring / Spring Boot, and REST APIs
Ensure solutions meet scalability, performance, availability, and security standards
Diagnose and resolve complex issues across application, integration, and infrastructure layer
Perform root cause analysis (RCA) and implement long‑term fixes to prevent recurrence
Ensure adherence to SLAs, ITIL incident/problem/change management practices
Analyse logs, application metrics, and system behaviour to proactively identify risks.
Manage HCL Commerce deployments on Azure
Work with CI/CD pipelines and deployment tooling (e.g., Jenkins, Git, Docker).
Collaborate with DevOps teams for environment provisioning, releases, and rollbacks
Your Profile
Essential skills/knowledge/experience:
Strong hands‑on experience with HCL Commerce / IBM WebSphere Commerce architecture
Proficiency in Java, J2EE, Graph and RESTful APIs
Experience with Spring / Spring Boot and backend service development
Solid understanding of relational databases especially Oracle
Experience and knowledge of tools like Eclipse, RAD, GIT and other monitoring tools like Splunk, Dynatrace, New Relic etc.
Practical experience with Azure hosting commerce platforms
Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills
Excellent stakeholder communication and documentation abilities
Ability to work independently and take ownership of features or incidents end‑to‑end
Desirable skills/knowledge/experience:
Experience in Retail and ecommerce
Experience with MongoDB and other NoSQL Databases
Experience in Agile / Scrum / Kanban delivery models
