Vallum Associates
Specialised Engineer
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This role is for a Specialised Engineer with a contract length of "unknown," offering a pay rate of "unknown." It requires strong hands-on experience with HCL Commerce, Java, and Azure. Industry experience in retail and e-commerce is preferred.
🌎 - Country
United Kingdom
💱 - Currency
£ GBP
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💰 - Day rate
Unknown
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🗓️ - Date
May 15, 2026
🕒 - Duration
Unknown
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🏝️ - Location
Unknown
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📄 - Contract
Unknown
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🔒 - Security
Unknown
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📍 - Location detailed
London Area, United Kingdom
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🧠 - Skills detailed
#Monitoring #Oracle #Splunk #Databases #Java #Deployment #Base #REST API #Spring Boot #Jenkins #Security #Scrum #Cloud #Azure #"ETL (Extract #Transform #Load)" #Docker #Scala #DevOps #Agile #Kanban #REST (Representational State Transfer) #NoSQL #MongoDB #GIT #Dynatrace #Documentation #Eclipse
Role 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
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
