Global Solution Architect for B2B/B2C Commerce & Integrations

Marks and Spencer; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

20% colleague discount on products

Discretionary bonus schemes

Strong pension and life assurance

Induction and training

Exclusive perks via M&S Choices

Family policies and wellbeing support

Volunteer day

Job summary

Marks & Spencer is seeking a Solution Architect to shape international growth within its FH&B domain. You will design B2B/B2C systems, spanning direct-to-consumer commerce, partner integrations and wholesale propositions, while aligning architectures with business strategies and security requirements.

You’ll collaborate with engineering, product and partner teams to deliver reusable patterns, ADRs and high-level designs that scale across markets and platforms.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Solution Architect or senior technology leader designing complex, enterprise-scale integration solutions.
• Experience designing B2C and/or B2B solutions including direct-to-consumer commerce, franchise, wholesale, partner or marketplace integrations.
• Experience producing High-Level Designs, Architecture Decision Records and architecture patterns that can be applied consistently across engineering teams.
• Strong understanding of integration architecture, distributed systems, cloud platforms, data movement, security, resilience and operational architecture, including APIs, event streaming, messaging and file-based integration patterns.
• Experience designing for non-functional requirements including scalability, resilience, latency, observability, retry mechanisms, failure handling, security and operational supportability.
• Commercial awareness with the ability to assess suppliers, evaluate options and balance technical, financial and delivery trade-offs to support investment decisions.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills, with the ability to bring senior stakeholders, engineers, product teams and partners on the journey through clear, outcome-focused communication.

Responsibilities

• Define end-to-end solution architectures for M&S International B2C and/or B2B systems, covering technology, data, integration, security, resilience, service boundaries, interface contracts and operational supportability.
• Design secure and scalable integration architectures across cloud-native, on-premises, partner and legacy systems, selecting the most appropriate patterns across APIs, event-driven architecture, synchronous integrations, file transfer and messaging.
• Evaluate integration options through Architecture Decision Records (ADRs), balancing risks, costs, FinOps considerations, business value and long-term maintainability.
• Produce High-Level Designs (HLDs) and reusable reference patterns that provide engineering teams with clear guidance and accelerate delivery.
• Provide architecture assurance throughout the delivery lifecycle through design reviews, technical governance, prototype validation and operational feedback.
• Collaborate across product teams, platforms, engineering functions and external partners to align dependencies, architectural decisions, risks and delivery plans.
• Assess emerging technologies, modernisation opportunities and architectural improvements that strengthen resilience, delivery pace, operational effectiveness and customer outcomes.

Skills

Solution architecture

Integration architecture

Cloud platforms

APIs & messaging

Non-functional requirements

Stakeholder influence

Tools

Azure

Power BI

CI/CD tools

Job description

Marks & Spencer is seeking a Solution Architect to shape international growth within its FH&B domain. You will design B2B/B2C systems, spanning direct-to-consumer commerce, partner integrations and wholesale propositions, while aligning architectures with business strategies and security requirements.

You’ll collaborate with engineering, product and partner teams to deliver reusable patterns, ADRs and high-level designs that scale across markets and platforms.