Solution Architect - Retail

Senior Solution Architect / Solution Architect / Technical Solution Architect / Retail Solution Architect

Contract details:

• Day rate: £700-£750 per day - Umbrella engagement
• Time required on site: 2-3 days per week on site.
• Duration: 6 months initially.

Overview of the role:

We're looking for an experienced and high quality Solution Architect with a strong background in the retail sector across all channels. You'll be joining a house hold brand that are going through another phase of exciting growth and looking to improve their colleague and customer experience through the introduction of new technologies, processes, efficiencies, automation and improvements of existing tech too.

As a solution Architect with a strong background in the retail sector across all domains, you'll be joining an excellent, high performing and architecture practice, working closely with Product owners and senior stakeholders across the organisation. This role is will support the delivery of the clients 2026 roadmap by providing solution architecture services across a wide portfolio of projects. Whilst this role is for a generalist we are particularly looking for expertise in order fulfilment, carrier and transport management and customer contact and data management.

This role requires someone with very strong communication and stakeholder management capabilities as well as excellent technical know how.

Key Requirements:

- Proven experience delivering solutions in a retail business which spans multiple territories and brands

- Able to show experience of owning solutions in a rapidly changing solution landscape, working with multiple transitions across time

- Understanding of MACH principles, with a focus on composable platforms and patterns

- Strong skills in solution design, systems integration and architecture governance

- Solid understanding of data governance, privacy standards, and compliance in customer data handling

- Proven senior stakeholder management skills in a company operating in multiple countries

- Ability to handle ambiguity and uncertainty in business requirements and a complex and changing solution landscape

- Experience of creating and maintaining information in an architecture repository, ideally LeanIX.