Solution Architect

**Here’s who you are**
- You are a transformational change agent, capable, and excited to embrace new solutions and technology to transform yourself, your company, and the experience of your customers.
- You are inquisitive and have an appetite to learn, to stay on the cutting edge, and pursue new ideas with rigor.
- You are tenacious and have a relentless drive to deliver results and get to the end point. You actively turn obstacles into opportunities with ownership and passion.
- You challenge yourself, your team, and your business to forget about the status quo and to strive for new levels of performance.
- You are trusted to deliver what you commit to.

**What you will love doing in this role**
- Analysing the technology environment and enterprise specifics.
- Identifying the stakeholders, helping to analyse and understand the requirements and extracting those of architectural significance.
- Assure feasibility and sustainability of solution proposals.
- Design and evolve the technical solution for customers and stakeholders.
- Manage non-functional requirements and compliance.
- Maintain the architectural runway.
- Define and prioritise enablers.
- Enable continuous delivery.
- Participating in technology selection and managing suppliers thereafter.
- Setting the collaboration framework and actively communicating the architecture.
- Supporting solution development by making sure developers can realise the solution.
- Verifying the implemented solution.

**What you’ll need to do this role**
- Engineering/Computer Science related degree or similar qualification.
- 8+ years of software engineering or other technical implementation experience
- 3+ years of experience of IT Infrastructure and cloud development
- 5+ years’ experience of business analysis
- 3+ years’ experience of engineering and software architecture design
- 3+ years’ experience of DevOps
- Project/Product Management experience a plus
- eCommerce/Retail industry experience a plus

**What we love about you**
- Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to convincingly communicate technical and business topics.
- Presentation skills with a high degree of comfort with both large and small audiences (Senior Executives, IT management, system engineers and developers).
- Desire to work collaboratively and to be a part of a cohesive team.
- Strong learning aptitude and ability to learn new technologies independently.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities, commitments, and projects.
- Self-motivated, guided, directed and passionate; ability to deliver without being asked more than once for a given task.
- Must have excellent organizational and time management skills.
- Positive attitude towards change and ability to adapt.

**Behaviors we love**
- Wow my **customer**
- Walk in my customers’ shoes
- Deliver on my promises
- Deliver insight-led solutions my customers need
- Treat the business as?**my own**
- Take accountability
- Be curious, creative & explore opportunities
- Do it right & at the right time
- Play as a **team**
- Be helpful
- Be inclusive
- Find the fun