We’re looking for aSolution Architectto join us here at N Brown, where you’ll be responsible for aligning technology strategy with business goals, and for the delivery of high-quality, governed solution designs. You’ll play a pivotal role in the successful delivery of the technology strategy and shaping of our future technology footprint. Our ambition is to migrate legacy retail and logistics capabilities away from our mainframe platform to modern, robust and scalable solutions.
Working alongside engineering technical leads and System Integrators, you will be accountable for architecting and governing cost-efficient, scalable solutions within the domain. You’ll be the authority and trusted advisor for all solutions in this area, ensuring any proposed changes to the estate are aligned with the wider enterprise technology direction and concepts. You’ll be responsible for the application of necessary solution governance and quality assurance, including proactive contribution to both our Technology Design Authority and Architecture Chapter community of practice.
What will you do as anSolution Architect at N Brown?
* Develop and articulate current state physical and logical architectures.
* Evangelise the adoption of future state technology architectures becoming the authority in this space.
* Work with the Product teams to coordinate the assessment of new technologies and how they can be effectively introduced to the enterprise.
* Work closely with stakeholders across functions, becoming a strong partner to the business and influencing outcomes from ideation through to implementation.
* Cultivate relationships with all levels of technical stakeholder to ensure architectural governance is applied in a uniform fashion.
* Influence technology direction and strategy.
* Govern system designs to ensure that appropriate patterns and standards are applied effectively.
* Question the status-quo to drive better outcomes across the enterprise.
* Work with the rest of the Architecture community and business stakeholders to build transformation roadmaps.
* Participate in the creation of RFI/RFP documentation and assessment of bid responses from external technology vendors.
* Represent the wider Architecture function.
* Work with IT stakeholders and contribute the evolution and delivery of our IT strategy.
What skills and experience will you have?
* Proven experience in an architecture or senior developer / engineer role within a Product/Retail environment
* Excellent communication skills and a proven ability to influence outcomes – strong interpersonal skills are essential
* An understanding of the end-to-end Retail Product process, with a particular focus on E-Commerce
* Flexibility and a desire to learn.
* Awareness of IT industry trends and being vendor and technology neutral to enable best-fit solutions to be found.
* The ability to plan and rationalise project goals working from limited information and ending in a holistic design.
* Decisiveness – be capable of presenting proposed solutions with confidence, providing clear guidance for outcomes.
Although not essential, it would be great if you had any of the below experience.
* Experience with AWS, preferably holding or working towards AWS Certified Solution Architect certification.
* Experience with performing a Solution Architecture role during large scale transformation programmes.
* Experience with integration and eventing platform technologies
* Experience of business activity around areas such as financial, commercial, procurement, human resources, security, and logistics operating models.
* A broad understanding of current techniques and tooling including API-first design, Cloud Native, Containerisation and PaaS on AWS, Azure or GCP.
* Experience of working with Product or Agile teams at the same time, effectively governing architectural designs to enable continuous delivery.
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