Senior Solution Architect — Enterprise-Scale Design Leader

Burberry; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Burberry is seeking a Senior Solution Architect to provide architectural leadership for complex delivery initiatives. You will translate enterprise direction into scalable, secure designs and act as a bridge between enterprise architects and delivery teams across multiple programmes.

You will lead end-to-end solution design, drive consistency, manage risk, and coach architects. Experience across SAP, Salesforce, Databricks and integration platforms will be valued in a matrix environment.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in solution architecture across multi-system initiatives.
• Strong breadth across app, data, cloud, security and infrastructure architecture.
• Ability to translate enterprise architecture direction into practical designs for delivery teams.
• Experience providing design governance across product and partner delivery.
• Credible technical authority to challenge engineering teams and vendors.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end solution design for complex product and programme initiatives across domains.
• Translate enterprise architecture standards into practical, scalable designs for delivery teams.
• Provide design authority and challenge designs from architects, engineers and partners.
• Ensure designs meet security, data, cloud and integration standards.
• Provide design assurance across squads and programmes, maintaining consistency across portfolios.
• Engage early in demand shaping and portfolio assessment with feasibility input and risk assessment.
• Support cross-domain initiatives with senior architecture oversight.
• Coach junior Solution Architects to improve quality and consistency.
• Contribute to reusable patterns, reference architectures and playbooks.
• Participate in architecture governance forums with recommendations.

Skills

Solution architecture

Design governance

Stakeholder management

Agile delivery

Cloud architecture

Security design

Tools

SAP

Salesforce

Databricks

Integration middleware

Cloud platforms

Job description

Burberry is seeking a Senior Solution Architect to provide architectural leadership for complex delivery initiatives. You will translate enterprise direction into scalable, secure designs and act as a bridge between enterprise architects and delivery teams across multiple programmes.

You will lead end-to-end solution design, drive consistency, manage risk, and coach architects. Experience across SAP, Salesforce, Databricks and integration platforms will be valued in a matrix environment.