Senior Solutions Architect - Retail; Hybrid

About us

We’re the team behind digital retailer Very.

Our purpose, helping families get more out of life, powers everything we do.

And we want our people to get more out of life too! If you’re high-performing, ambitious and make the most of every opportunity, we want to hear from you. In return, you’ll enjoy heaps of flexibility, great perks and benefits, and the freedom to be yourself, keep learning and take your career wherever you want it to go.

If you love making a difference, you’ll love making it sparkle for millions of Very customers. ✨

The Retail Tribe is transforming the current retail tools and infrastructure into one of the most contemporary tech stacks in retail. Owning the designs, builds, integrations and running of technology across all retail products and functions, the tribe are transforming key Retail capabilities spanning Sourcing, Planning, Forecasting, Buying, Merchandising and Pricing, as well as the Product journey from initial setup to publish.

Working with the Lead Architect, you will be responsible for implementing the policies and standards that guide technology delivery, possessing significant experience in modern, cloud based technology standards and practices.

You will be experienced in actively addressing the most complicated risks, issues and dependencies including managing dependencies where ownership exists outside of the team. We need the right person to help identify innovative ways to unblock issues whilst evolving our architecture towards a defined target.

The Senior solution architect must both contribute towards strategic thinking as well as ensuring that appropriate technology standards are created and adhered to – including solution designs, strategic alignment, growing technology capabilities, introducing best practice and leading technology selection. The Senior Solution Architect must be an integral part of the Solution Architecture team, working in collaboration with the Lead Architect within a Tribe.

As a practitioner in Agile and Lean practices, you'll know how to lead complex technology delivery in a fast-paced environment which is obsessed over continuously improving customer experiences.

As Senior Solution Architect you are expected to help shape architectural design and technology roadmaps for complex applications supporting high volume, mission critical products and services.

You'll work hand in hand with our Product Managers, Delivery and Technical Leads in order to influence and define a technology roadmap to meet both our commercial and technology aims.

To be successful in the role, we need someone who can mediate between people and explain complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences, particularly someone who is confident communicating with stakeholders at all levels. Someone who understands the evolutionary nature of technology delivery in an agile environment. As you may imagine, our stakeholder expectations are high, and we'll need you to facilitate discussions about high risk and complexity even within constrained timescales.

• Demonstrable experience in designing complex solutions balancing strategic direction and business delivery
• Experience in defining roadmaps and influencing, communicating and guiding stakeholders
• Conceptual and strategic thinker
• Technical expert
• Team member with good interpersonal skills but able to work independently
• You are known for your thought leadership and critical thinking in the technical space, while being able to apply business context
• You have experience of the following technology skills or knowledge:
  Java & Amazon AWS
• Experience working with the following technologies would be a bonus:
  Spring Boot, Oracle DB, Terraform, React & AWS specifics: API Gatewayand RDS

• Flexible, hybrid working model
• Inclusive culture and environment

• £6500 flexible benefits allowance to suit your needs
• 30days holiday + bank holidays
• Udemy learning access
• Up to 25% discount on

• Matched pension up to 6%
• More benefits can be foundon our career site

Please note that the talent acquisition team are managing this vacancy directly, and if successful in securing this role, you…