Digital Solutions Architect

Mecca Brands; Letchworth; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Professional development

Health & wellbeing initiatives

Bonus & incentive programs

Product allowance

Employee discount

4-day in-office week

Job summary

MECCA Brands is rebuilding its digital platforms and seeks a Solution Architect to shape the architecture behind the initiative. You’ll partner with Product, Engineering and Delivery from discovery through implementation across eCommerce, Mobile, Customer Identity, Loyalty and Marketing.

You’ll influence solution options, produce architecture artefacts, define scalable patterns, and mentor engineers while collaborating with governance forums.

Qualifications

• 7+ years’ experience in Solution Architecture within enterprise Digital environments.
• Experience designing and delivering Digital Commerce and customer-facing technology solutions.
• Experience across Digital platforms including eCommerce, B2C Mobile, Customer Identity, Loyalty, CRM and Marketing Technology.
• Experience with API-first architecture, cloud-native platforms and modern integration patterns.
• Good understanding of architecture governance, security and non-functional requirements.
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills, and experience working with Agile delivery teams, technology partners and external vendors.

Responsibilities

• Shape solution architecture across Digital initiatives from ideation through to implementation, providing clear direction and supporting delivery.
• Partner in pre-discovery and initiative shaping — clarifying business problems, exploring solution options, and defining the architectural approach.
• Produce and maintain architecture artefacts: conceptual architectures, solution designs, integration models, architecture decisions and non-functional requirements.
• Define scalable, secure and reusable architecture patterns across Digital Commerce, Mobile, Customer Identity, Loyalty, Marketing and Customer Experience.
• Partner with Product, Delivery and Engineering teams throughout the delivery lifecycle, and work with Data, Security, Platform and Enterprise Architecture to navigate cross-domain dependencies.
• Contribute to technology evaluations, platform selection and vendor assessments.
• Support and mentor engineers and emerging architects, and represent MECCA in relationships with technology vendors and delivery partners.

Skills

Solution Architecture

Digital Commerce

API-first

Cloud-native

Security & governance

Stakeholder engagement

Agile delivery

Job description

MECCA’s Digital platforms are going through a significant rebuild, and we need someone who can shape the architecture behind it.

This role sits at the center of that work: partnering with Product, Engineering and Delivery from the earliest discovery conversations right through to implementation, across eCommerce, Mobile, Customer Identity, Loyalty and Marketing.

What’s in it for you

• Real influence, early — you’re shaping solution options and key design decisions in pre-discovery,

• Breadth, not a narrow lane — architecture across eCommerce, Mobile, Customer Identity, Loyalty and Marketing,

• A seat at the table — direct exposure to Technology Leadership, Enterprise PMO and Architecture Governance forums

• A hand in defining what “modern” means here — API-first, cloud-native, event-driven, with real license to reduce the point-to-point integration mess that builds up over time

What you’ll be doing

• Shape solution architecture across Digital initiatives from ideation through to implementation, providing clear direction and supporting delivery

• Partner in pre-discovery and initiative shaping — clarifying business problems, exploring solution options, and defining the architectural approach

• Produce and maintain architecture artefacts: conceptual architectures, solution designs, integration models, architecture decisions and non-functional requirements

• Define scalable, secure and reusable architecture patterns across Digital Commerce, Mobile, Customer Identity, Loyalty, Marketing and Customer Experience

• Partner with Product, Delivery and Engineering teams throughout the delivery lifecycle, and work with Data, Security, Platform and Enterprise Architecture to navigate cross-domain dependencies

• Contribute to technology evaluations, platform selection and vendor assessments

• Support and mentor engineers and emerging architects, and represent MECCA in relationships with technology vendors and delivery partners

What you’ll bring

• 7+ years’ experience in Solution Architecture within enterprise Digital environments

• Experience designing and delivering Digital Commerce and customer-facing technology solutions

• Experience across Digital platforms including eCommerce, B2C Mobile, Customer Identity, Loyalty, CRM and Marketing Technology

• Experience with API-first architecture, cloud-native platforms and modern integration patterns

• Good understanding of architecture governance, security and non-functional requirements

• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills, and experience working with Agile delivery teams, technology partners and external vendors

Nice to have: retail or omnichannel experience, exposure to the Salesforce ecosystem (Commerce Cloud, Marketing Cloud, Service Cloud, Data Cloud, Loyalty Management), MACH/composable or headless commerce exposure, cloud platform experience (Azure, AWS or GCP), or TOGAF (or equivalent) certification. None of these are dealbreakers on their own — if your enterprise Digital architecture fundamentals are strong, we’re more interested in that than a perfect tool checklist.

This is a 4 day a week in-office role, based at MECCA’s Support Centre, working closely with Product, Engineering, Delivery and Architecture teams day to day. No direct reports — this is a hands-on architecture role, not a people-management one.

Your Life At MECCA

Whilst we are focused on our #CustomerFirst mantra, we know that wouldn’t be possible without an incredible team that is guided by our MECCA values and motivated each and every day to be solutions focused, innovative, collaborative and adaptable, and have a bit of fun along the way!

Some of our other team member benefits include:

• Professional development programs and first-class digitised learning offering

• Health and well-being initiatives

• Reward and recognition programs

• Access to bonus and incentive programs

• Access to quarterly product allowance

• Generous discount to spoil yourselves and your immediate family, as well as a generous product allowance, subject to company policy

There are also so many other ways in which you’ll be made to feel part of the MECCA story as we love to celebrate, surprise and delight our team along the way.

To learn more about life at MECCA Brands, follow us on LinkedIn at MECCA Brands or @lifeatmecca , and for all current opportunities, visit www.mecca.com.au/careers.