Solution Architect / Digital Solution Architect / Technical Solution Architect - Loyalty or Fulfilment / Supply Chain experience required.
Overview of the role:
As a solution architect you will be responsible producing high-level designs and Low-level designs, making product selection recommendations and gaining approval from our architecture governance team for your proposals. We're looking for someone to work with Software engineering teams and business stakeholders.
The role requires an excellent communicator who can analyse complex requirements and explain in simple terms the proposed solutions. Your communication skills will help you engage with teams from a diverse range of countries and cultures. You will require strong stakeholder management skills and will work alongside everyone from senior business stakeholders to developers and you will be responsible for ensuring they understand and accept your proposed design.
You will enjoy solving problems, able to join the dots between our enterprise architecture components and bring innovation and free-thinking to solutions that allows our organisation to evolve. You will identify risks, issues and dependencies associated with your designs and help ensure that solutions are delivered on time and to budget.
Responsibilities
* Lead architecture initiatives from inception to completion
* Work closely with Software engineering teams to ensure what they're building is aligned to technical and business objectives.
* Collaborate with business and technical users to create architecture in alignment with business objectives with a focus on either a Loyalty project or Fulfilment / Supply chain project.
* Champion the adoption of reusable architecture assets to improve efficiency
* Produce documentation to aid in the understanding of existing architecture solutions
Skills and experience:
* Extensive experience working a variety of stakeholder across all tiers of the enterprise
* Breadth of architecture experience covering a multitude of business domains including eCommerce, loyalty, store operations, supply chain, finance
* Knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks (TOGAF) and experience of modelling within an enterprise architecture tool (ideally Orbus iServer)
* Broad understanding of our key technologies (SAP, Oracle Commerce, APIs, Microservices, mobile applications)