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We’re looking for a Solutions Architect to join us here at N Brown! You’ll play a pivotal role in the successful delivery of the technology strategy, shaping our future technology footprint and the transformation of our legacy technology estate into cutting edge microservices architecture.

You’ll be the authority and trusted advisor for solutions across various domains, 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 an Solutions 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.
• 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.
• 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.
  
  

What’s in it for you?

• Hybrid working
• 24 days holiday (+ 8 bank holidays) with the option to buy an additional 10 days
• Annual bonus scheme
• Enhanced maternity and adoption leave
• Company pension with up to 8% N Brown contribution
• Mental Health support both internally and externally, including access to our wellbeing champions and counselling services
• A range of financial wellbeing support
• Colleague discount across all N Brown brands
• Onsite café with subsidised rates and local restaurant discounts!
• Life Assurance and Private Medical Insurance
• Paid volunteer time - all our colleagues can take a full day paid to volunteer for a charity of their choice