IT Lead Solution Architect

Boots.com; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Boots Retirement Savings Plan

Employee discounts for family

Enhanced parental leave

Discretionary annual bonus

Flexible benefits scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Job summary

Boots is seeking a Solution Architect for Retail & Supply Chain in Nottingham/Beeston. You will shape end-to-end solution designs, translate business needs into actionable designs, and work with delivery teams to ensure successful deployment.

The role emphasizes practical architecture, governance alignment, and collaboration with Product Owners, Analysts, Security, Infrastructure, and Data teams to deliver value across retail and supply chain initiatives.

Qualifications

• Good working knowledge of architecture methods and governance.
• Able to communicate solution options, risks, and design decisions clearly.
• Able to prioritise work across project demands and delivery outcomes.
• Delivery-focused with ownership of outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Shape end-to-end solution designs for Retail and Supply Chain initiatives.
• Create architecture outputs to support governance and decision-making.
• Ensure solutions are practical, scalable, and enterprise-aligned.
• Collaborate with delivery teams and partners through build, test and transition.
• Maintain architectural integrity while balancing pace, risk and cost.
• Translate business needs into actionable solutions with stakeholders.
• Support early shaping and high-level estimation activity.
• Apply architecture standards and reusable patterns.

Skills

TOGAF-aligned

Stakeholder communication

Architecture governance

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Solution Architect - Retail & Supply Chain

Are you ready to make a difference? Join Boots as a Solution Architect - Retail & Supply Chain in Nottingham, Beeston and play a pivotal role in shaping technology solutions that support our transformation journey.

This is an opportunity to play a key role in shaping technology solutions that support Boots' Retail and Supply Chain transformation. A broad portfolio of change is underway across the business, with technology central to improving how we serve customers, colleagues, stores, and supply chain operations.

As a Solution Architect within the Retail & Supply Architecture team, you will work closely with business, technology, and delivery stakeholders to shape practical, high-quality solution designs for assigned projects.

The role is focused on practical solution architecture, translating requirements into deliverable designs that align with enterprise standards and support successful project outcomes.

What You’ll Be Doing

In this role, you will:

• Shape end-to-end solution designs for Retail and Supply Chain initiatives and create clear architecture outputs that support governance and decision-making.
• Ensure solutions are practical, scalable, and aligned with enterprise standards.
• Work closely with delivery teams and partners through build, test, implementation, and transition into service.
• Support architectural integrity while balancing delivery pace, risk, cost, and complexity.
• Engage with stakeholders to translate business needs into actionable solutions and engage with Product Owners, Project Managers, Business Analysts, Testing, Security, Infrastructure, Data, and Service Introduction teams to support successful delivery.
• Apply enterprise architecture standards, domain guardrails, patterns, and roadmaps to project-level solution designs.
• Provide practical architectural input where requirements, constraints, or dependencies are evolving.
• Support early-stage shaping and estimating activity by providing high-level solution input.
• Apply architectural standards, reusable patterns, and practical solution building blocks.

What You’ll Need To Have (Our Must-Haves)

• Good working knowledge of architecture methods, governance practices, and TOGAF-aligned approaches.
• Comfortable collaborating with Product Owners, Business Analysts, Testing, Security, Infrastructure, Data, and Service Introduction teams.
• Able to communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders, explaining solution options, risks, and design decisions in a meaningful way.
• Able to prioritise work effectively across agreed project demands, balancing pace, quality, standards, and delivery outcomes.
• Pragmatic and delivery-focused, with a willingness to take ownership of outcomes within agreed project scope.

Where Your Brilliance Can Take You At Boots, we believe in your potential. You'll have opportunities for career development and growth, supported by a culture that champions learning and collaboration.

Why Boots?

• Boots Retirement Savings Plan (up to 6% company contribution)
• Generous employee discounts for you and a family member
• Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave pay

Rewards designed for you

• Boots Retirement Savings Plan
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Generous employee discounts
• Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave pay and gift card for anyone expecting or adopting a child

• Flexible benefits scheme including options for additional holiday, discounted gym membership, life assurance, and much more.
• Access to free, 24/7 counselling and support through TELUS Health, our Employee Assistance Programme.

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A bit about us: At Boots, we’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer, creating a place where everyone feels welcome, supported, and free to be themselves. We believe that when our people feel valued and included, they thrive, so we’re committed to creating a brilliant Boots for our people so they can make a difference for our customers and colleagues every time.