Cloud Solution Architect

Key Responsibilities

Architectural Vision & Strategy

• Define and lead the enterprise architecture strategy to enable the shift from stack-centric IT to a product-led, outcome-driven model.
• Establish a clear architectural vision aligned with business objectives, customer experience goals, and operational scalability.

Integration Leadership

• Design and govern integration patterns across modern cloud platforms, distributed retail/wholesale sites, and IBM i-series (AS/400) systems.
• Drive legacy modernisation by exposing core enterprise capabilities (pricing, inventory, fulfilment) through APIs and event-driven interfaces.

Strategic Influence & Leadership

• Act as a trusted advisor to senior technology and business leaders, shaping product strategy through architecture.
• Align multiple teams and stakeholders across business units, ensuring consistency while enabling innovation.
• Define and embed architecture principles, standards, and guardrails to support autonomous product teams.

Transformation Enablement

• Lead initiatives to transition delivery teams from project-based, technology stack–focused approaches to product-aligned operating models.
• Develop scalable architectural patterns and platforms that accelerate delivery, reduce technical friction, and support evolving business needs.

Operational & Technical Excellence

• Ensure non-functional requirements — security, observability, resilience, and performance — are integral to product and platform design.
• Oversee architectural governance that facilitates delivery rather than constrains it.

Mentorship & Community Building

• Mentor solution architects and senior engineers, raising organisational architectural maturity.
• Play a key role in architecture forums, communities of practice, and design reviews.

About You

• Extensive experience as a Lead Solution Architect, Principal Architect, or similar leadership role in a product-centric or hybrid enterprise environment.
• Proven track record of driving architectural transformation from stack/project-centric models to product- and outcome-driven architectures.
• Deep expertise in enterprise integration and hybrid architecture, including IBM i-series (AS/400) and distributed retail/wholesale operations.
• Strong knowledge of modern paradigms: domain-driven design, event-driven architecture, microservices, API-first.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Exceptional communication and influencing skills, engaging credibly with C-level, business stakeholders, and engineering teams.
• Strong leadership capabilities with experience guiding teams through large-scale change.

Nice to Have

• Experience in retail/wholesale technology transformation (ERP, POS, logistics integration).
• Familiarity with event streaming platforms, middleware, and API management solutions.
• Exposure to platform engineering, DevOps, or data architecture.
• Experience building and leading architecture practices or centres of excellence.