Solution Architect

HomeChoice is a leading omni-channel retailer, delighting our customers with an innovative range of curated products on personalised terms. Our Aim is to provide multiple, convenient and easy retail shopping experiences which guarantee our customers’ expectations are met and exceeded.

**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.

**Responsibilities**:

- 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

**Your technical capabilities**:

- 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

**Key Competencies**:

- 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

**Our Values**:

- Keep Innovating - we have the courage to contribute new ideas and turn those ideas into reality.
- Think like an entrepreneur - we treat the business like it's our own.
- Keep it real - we are mindful of the impact of our words and actions.
- Raise the bar - we strive to deliver excellence in everything that we do.