Senior Digital Solutions Architect – eCommerce & Identity

Mecca Brands; Letchworth; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Professional development

Health & wellbeing initiatives

Rewards and recognition

Bonus programs

Product allowance

Staff discount

Job summary

MECCA Brands is seeking an experienced Solution Architect to shape the architecture behind our major digital rebuild. You will partner with Product, Engineering and Delivery from discovery to implementation across eCommerce, Mobile, Customer Identity, Loyalty and Marketing.

You’ll influence option choices, define scalable patterns, and produce artefacts while mentoring engineers and collaborating with governance forums. This is an in-office role with significant cross-domain impact.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of 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 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 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

Enterprise Architecture

API-first

Cloud-native

Security

Stakeholder Mgmt

Agile Delivery

Job description

MECCA Brands is seeking an experienced Solution Architect to shape the architecture behind our major digital rebuild. You will partner with Product, Engineering and Delivery from discovery to implementation across eCommerce, Mobile, Customer Identity, Loyalty and Marketing.

You’ll influence option choices, define scalable patterns, and produce artefacts while mentoring engineers and collaborating with governance forums. This is an in-office role with significant cross-domain impact.