Solutions Architect

£75,000 + £5,700 car allowance + bonus and excellent benefits.

We are working with a leading UK retailer that is investing heavily in its technology landscape and is looking for a Solution Architect to join an established architecture practice.

This is a genuine business-led Solution Architecture position. You’ll work closely with business stakeholders, product teams, engineering teams, architects and senior leadership to shape solutions that support significant digital and eCommerce transformation.

The Role

You’ll play a key role in designing and governing scalable, resilient solutions across a complex enterprise technology environment, with a particular focus on growing the organisation’s online presence.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Designing scalable, enterprise-level eCommerce and digital solutions.
• Translating business requirements into effective technology architectures.
• Working closely with senior business and technology stakeholders.
• Making architectural decisions and providing governance across major initiatives.
• Reviewing technical designs produced by engineering teams.
• Working across complex applications, platforms and integrations.
• Ensuring solutions consider scalability, resilience, performance, observability and operational requirements.
• Supporting major technology transformation programmes.

You'll ideally have:

• Proven Solution Architecture experience within a large enterprise environment.
• Experience designing customer-facing digital or eCommerce solutions.
• Experience working across complex, integrated technology landscapes.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Experience making architectural decisions and influencing technical direction.
• A good understanding of scalability, resilience, observability and operational considerations.
• The ability to bridge the gap between business requirements and technology solutions.

eCommerce experience is highly desirable, particularly within retail, fashion, grocery or another high-volume consumer environment. Experience with platforms such as Salesforce Commerce Cloud, Adobe Commerce/Magento, SAP Commerce/Hybris, Shopify Plus or similar enterprise eCommerce platforms would be advantageous.

However, candidates from broader enterprise or customer-facing digital environments will also be considered.

Why Join?

You'll be joining a mature architecture function with significant investment in professional development and technology transformation.

You'll have access to:

• A large and supportive architecture community.
• Clear opportunities for career progression and internal promotion.
• 10% protected Learning & Development time.
• Microsoft training and certification opportunities.
• Vendor training and professional architecture certifications.