Solution Architect

ENGINEERINGUK; Manchester; On-site; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

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Sector: Construction and Building Services
Role: Professional
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time

dunnhumby is the global leader in Customer Data Science, empowering businesses everywhere to compete and thrive in the modern data-driven economy. We always put the Customer First.

Our mission: to enable businesses to grow and reimagine themselves by becoming advocates and champions for their Customers.

We're looking for a Solution Architect who expects more from their career. It's a chance to extend and improve dunnhumby's Architecture team. You will lead the overall architecture across assigned product and platform areas.

Joining our team, you'll work with world-class and passionate people to build the platform that will support the next generation of our propositions. We are looking for architects that have experience and can contribute across our platform layers:

• A user experience layer that allows new user experiences and propositions to be quickly built on our growing corpus of science and data.
• A product layer that stitches our science and data into services that allow flexible propositions to be built.
• A data layer that processes and governs bulk, operational and event stream data, supporting a broad set of use cases, from bulk insight to real-time media activation.
• A science layer that brings to life and makes efficient 30+ years of dunnhumby's research into customer behaviour and loyalty, which also extends to modern AI techniques for understanding customer behaviour and driving key product use cases.
• A PaaS layer that empowers teams and provides agility, while protecting the extensive data assets we hold and manage on behalf of our clients.

What we expect from you:

• Experience of collaborative design and delivery of software products and platforms including depth of knowledge across at least two of software, infrastructure, big data, event processing and distributed computing architecture.
• Familiarity with at least one of the major cloud provider's technology stacks - Azure, GCP or AWS.
• Leadership and early adopter of modern software-centric infrastructure management, including CI/CD, continuous deployment, Infrastructure as Code, Policy as Code, Configuration as Code/Data.
• Track record of implementing architectural changes in Agile development methodologies.
• Experience identifying key business technology issues and providing analytical skills to understand and communicate design specifications that facilitate technical development, including the creation of both high-level and detailed design documentation and impact estimation.
• Problem solving and troubleshooting skills and the ability to exercise mature judgement.

What you can expect from us:

We won't just meet your expectations. We'll defy them. You'll enjoy a comprehensive rewards package you'd expect from a leading technology company, as well as thoughtful perks, like flexible working hours and your birthday off. You'll benefit from an investment in cutting-edge technology that reflects our global ambition.

And we don't just talk about diversity and inclusion. We live it every day - with thriving networks including dh Gender Equality Network, dh Proud, dh Family, dh One and dh Thrive as the living proof.

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