Location: Reading or Dublin (Hybrid working)
Day Rate: Competitive Day Rate (Inside IR35)
Duration: Initial 6 Months
About the Role
We’re looking for a Domain Architect for Buying & Planning to shape the future of Primark’s merchandising, planning, forecasting, allocation, and replenishment technology landscape.
This is a senior strategic role where you’ll partner closely with the Head of Product & Delivery, acting as their trusted architectural adviser. You’ll guide major investment decisions, define the domain roadmap, and ensure our Oracle Retail ecosystem evolves in line with business ambition.
You’ll work alongside a team of Oracle specialists and oversee a group of Solution Architects - providing technical direction, architectural leadership, and clarity of vision.
What You’ll Be Doing
Strategic & Architectural Leadership
* Define the architecture vision, strategy, and multi‑year roadmap for Buying & Planning.
* Shape strategic solution options across merchandising, planning, forecasting, allocation, and replenishment.
* Drive modernisation, simplification, and lifecycle planning across the Oracle Retail estate.
* Lead innovation and horizon scanning to ensure the domain stays ahead of business needs.
Governance & Assurance
* Chair or contribute to domain design forums and represent Buying & Planning at the Enterprise Design Authority.
* Provide design assurance across delivery, approving high‑level designs and ensuring alignment to enterprise principles.
* Strengthen architectural governance, tooling, and documentation across the domain.
Delivery & Collaboration
* Partner with Product, Platform, and Programme leaders to shape demand, sequencing, and investment priorities.
* Lead early ideation and concept shaping for new initiatives.
* Collaborate with other architecture practices to ensure cross‑domain consistency.
* Provide architectural leadership and technical direction to Solution Architects and Engineers.
* Maintain an accurate domain landscape and ensure critical design knowledge is captured and shared.
* Contribute to the growth of the architecture community through coaching and collaboration.
Role Scope & Influence
* Accountable for a domain with £10m–£20m annual technology spend.
* Influence procurement decisions typically valued between £5m–£20m.
* Provide design leadership to 5–10 architects and senior engineers (no direct line management).
* Act as the senior design authority for all Buying & Planning technology decisions.
* Partner with senior leaders across Buying, Planning, Merchandising, Product, and Technology.
What You’ll Bring
* Strong blend of enterprise and solution architecture experience.
* Deep knowledge of Oracle Retail (e.g., RMS, RPAS, Allocation, Replenishment, Planning & Forecasting).
* Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills — able to translate complex concepts for non‑technical audiences.
* Strong relationship‑building capability, especially with senior business leaders.
* Strategic thinker with strong analytical and organisational skills.
* Broad technical awareness across applications, data, integration, and platforms.
* Experience guiding and mentoring Solution Architects.
* Experience with modern planning and forecasting platforms.
* Familiarity with merchandising and planning processes in global retail.
* Experience with analytics, optimisation, or AI‑driven planning tools.
* Awareness of sustainability and circularity considerations in retail product lifecycles.
If you’re excited by the idea of shaping the architecture of a global retailer undergoing major transformation, this is your opportunity to make a real impact.
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