Role Title: Retail Enterprise Architect Duration: contract to run until 31/10/2025 Location: London, Hybrid. 60% remote, 40% onsite but client teams are mostly remote. Rate: up to £1134 p/d Umbrella inside IR35 Key Skills/ requirements An experienced Retail Enterprise Architect with a deep understanding of retail business domainsespecially commercial, merchandising, product data mgmt, trading & planning, category & assortment, pricing & promotions, planning, and supply chainto lead the design and execution of enterprise architectures across multiple retail areas including grocery, general merchandise, and fashion. The ideal candidate will bring a proven track record of working in a product-centric delivery, shaping end-to-end architecture across enterprise platforms, modernising core systems, and enabling transformation using cloud, integration, and microservice architectures. This role will be pivotal in driving strategic alignment, domain-led architectural governance, and technology roadmaps to support ongoing business and digital transformation initiatives. Key Responsibilities: Lead the enterprise and solution architecture strategy across planning, buying, trading, merchandising, and supply chain functions. Govern and evolve end-to-end architecture patterns, standards, and principles for core commercial and operational systems. Partner with business stakeholders and product owners to shape domain roadmaps and assess architectural impacts of strategic initiatives. Working with the architects a variety across product data management, merchandising, planning, merchandising, supply chain and integration. Design scalable, modular and composable architectures leveraging API-first, microservices, cloud-native and event-driven patterns. Architect and oversee delivery of solutions integrating ERP Platforms like Oracle Retail, ERP platforms, eCommerce, PLM, and finance systems. Drive modernization of legacy platforms and enable speed-to-market initiatives across retail channels (B2C, B2B, dropship). Conduct architecture assessments, design authority reviews, and ensure solution alignment with business outcomes. Lead architectural input for RFPs, vendor assessments, and platform selection activities. Act as a strategic advisor to technology leadership on commercial technology transformation. All profiles will be reviewed against the required skills and experience. Due to the high number of applications we will only be able to respond to successful applicants in the first instance. We thank you for your interest and the time taken to apply!