Our client, a leading global supplier for IT services, requires an experienced Magento Developer to be based in their client’s office in London.

This is a hybrid role - you can work remotely in the UK and attend the London office 3 days per week.

This is a 6+ month temporary contract to start ASAP

Day rate: Competitive Market rate

The client is looking for a seasoned Magento expert with a decade of experience in architecting, developing, and optimising large scale E-commerce platforms. The right candidate should have good skills in Magento 2 custom module development, performance tuning, and complex third-party integrations, good experience in managing end to end project life cycles, including requirement analysis, sprint planning, and release management. You will be responsible for leading technical strategy, solution design, and best practice implementation across multi-store and multi-region setups, and collaborating closely with cross functional teams to deliver scalable, secure, and high-performance solutions

Key Responsibilities:

• Own solution architecture: Design scalable Magento 2/Adobe Commerce architectures (B2C/B2B), define module boundaries, integration patterns, and data flows; make build vs. buy calls
• Lead complex deliveries: Break down epics, estimate, plan sprints, deal risk dependencies, and ensure on time, quality releases across multi-store and multi-region setups
• Handson development: Implement high impact Back End modules (DI, plugins, observers, service contracts, APIs) and guide Front End (PWA/Knockout) where needed
• Performance & scalability: Profile and tune PHP/MySQL, indexing, caching layers (Varnish/Redis), search (Elasticsearch/OpenSearch), and CDN strategy to meet SLAs
• Security & compliance: Enforce secure coding, patching cadence, PCI considerations, access controls, and data protection practices
• Integration leadership: Architect/oversee robust integrations with ERPs, CRMs, payment/shipping providers, search, and marketing platforms (via REST/GraphQL/webhooks/Middleware)
• DevOps & environments: Champion CI/CD, branching strategy, code quality gates, containerized environments (Docker), infra configuration (NGINX/Apache), and observability
• Code quality & governance: Set coding standards (PSR, PHPCS, PHPStan), conduct deep code reviews, enforce test coverage (PHPUnit/MFTF), and manage tech debt
• Mentorship & team growth: Coach developers, run design reviews, pair programming, learning plans, and build a high ownership engineering culture
• Stakeholder management: Translate business goals into technical roadmaps, align with product/UX/QA/DevOps, and communicate risks, trade-offs, and timelines clearly

Key Requirements:

• Expert in Magento 2 architecture & custom development -deep knowledge of modules, DI, plugins, observers, service contracts, APIs (REST/GraphQL), multi store setups, and performance tuning
• Strong Back End & Front End capabilities - PHP 7/8, MySQL, Composer, MVC, HTML/CSS, JS, Knockout.js, theme development, and experience with Hyvä/PWA Studio
• DevOps, deployment & scalability skills - Git, CI/CD, caching (Varnish/Redis), and security best practices
• Leadership & integration expertise - able to design solutions, lead teams, review code, optimise performance, and integrate Magento with ERPs, CRMs, payment gateways, and enterprise systems.
• Magento, SQL, PHP, jQuery, JS, HTML, CSS, Rest/Soap/GraphQL API
• Familiarity with DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines.
• Knowledge of compliance standards and security best practices in cloud environments

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