Location: Senior Solution Architect
Reporting to: Head of Architecture
We are looking for a Senior Solution Architect to define and drive the technology strategy behind Rightmove’s internal business processes, including sales automation, order fulfilment, pricing, billing management, and customer support.
You will be experienced in breaking down enterprise processes into components and defining solutions that integrate with existing systems, allowing both process and technology to evolve. Experience with highly distributed platforms, bespoke applications, and industry-standard software is essential. A hands-on approach, working alongside product engineers and technology providers, is highly valued.
The Architect team collaborates closely with Product & Platform Reliability and Engineering teams to ensure our platform supports scale, security, resilience, and agility for continuous releases. Key projects include:
1. Supporting the evolution of our customer-self-service platform.
2. Modernising legacy systems with SaaS solutions.
3. Migrating our platform to GCP cloud infrastructure.
If you are ready to tackle these architectural challenges and contribute to one of the UKs most popular websites, we want to hear from you.
Responsibilities include:
* Contributing to technology strategy, focusing on process evolution and experimentation.
* Collaborating with Product Managers to align roadmaps and design ideas.
* Engaging with stakeholders to analyze business processes and inform architectural decisions.
* Evaluating build vs buy options and potential suppliers.
* Working with technology partners to enhance capabilities and optimize costs.
* Guiding teams to ensure architectural consistency and good technical decisions.
* Mentoring engineering teams and promoting best practices.
* Investigating and prototyping emergent technologies and patterns.
Ideal candidates will:
* Translate business goals into technology solutions, anticipating future needs.
* Understand enterprise integration patterns.
* Balance architectural improvements with hands-on implementation.
* Have experience designing distributed business process solutions.
* Communicate architectural ideas effectively.
* Promote inclusive design practices.
Preferred backgrounds include:
* Strong knowledge of the enterprise software landscape.
* Experience with CRM, BPM, payments, or ticketing systems.
* Experience with GCP, Kubernetes, Kafka, Elasticsearch, Oracle, Couchbase, or Apigee is a plus.
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