Solutions Architect

BloomReach Inc.; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading digital experience firm seeks a Solutions Architect to drive technical aspects of the sales cycle. The ideal candidate will leverage their expertise in commerce to support and guide customers, ensuring successful implementation of the Discovery platform. You'll work closely with sales teams, design technical solutions, and facilitate collaborative demos, remaining hands-on with customer engagements to ensure success throughout the process. Strong communication skills and a technical background in IT environments are essential for this role.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Paid volunteering days

Professional development programs

Stock options and performance bonus

Employee assistance program

Qualifications

• 3+ years of commerce experience as system integrator or in sales.
• 3+ years in technical roles within complex IT environments.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills are essential.

Responsibilities

• Own technical aspects of the sales cycle for the Discovery platform.
• Lead technical discovery and solution design efforts.
• Design and validate data flows for the Discovery platform.

Skills

Commerce experience

Technical positions in complex IT environments

Expertise in commerce search

API-first solutioning

Consultative discovery

Strong understanding of AI/ML

Communication skills in English

Education

BS in Information Systems / Computer Science

Tools

Salesforce Commerce Cloud

Shopify

Job description

Bloomreach is building the world’s premieragentic platform for personalization. We’re revolutionizing how businesses connect with their customers, building and deploying AI agents to personalize theentirecustomer journey.

• We’re takingautonomous searchmainstream, making product discovery more intuitive and conversational for customers, and more profitable for businesses.
• We’re makingconversational shoppinga reality, connecting every shopper with tailored guidance and product expertise — available on demand, at every touchpoint in their journey.
• We’re designing the future ofautonomous marketing, taking the work out of workflows, and reclaiming the creative, strategic, and customer‑first work marketers were always meant to do.

And we’re building all of that on the intelligence of a single AI engine —Loomi AI— so that personalization isn’t only autonomous…it’s also consistent. From retail to financial services, hospitality to gaming, businesses use Bloomreach to drive higher growth and lasting loyalty. We power personalization for more than 1,400 global brands, including American Eagle, Sonepar, and Pandora.

Do you love the idea of helping some of the world’s biggest and most innovative businesses build immersive and exciting digital experiences? As a Bloomreach Solutions Architect, you would be one of the trusted advisors of our high‑energy, high‑performance global pre‑sales team, involved in multiple stages of the sales cycle. Your job would be to partner with our sales team, helping drive value for our customers by leading the technical aspects of our scoping and implementation efforts on Bloomreach’s rapidly growing Discovery platform. The Solutions Architect role involves maintaining a solid understanding of the Bloomreach product strategy, professional services offerings, and sales pipeline to identify opportunities where our services can bring business value to our customers and to identify where implementations will need deep requirements gathering.

Your role will require significant collaboration with customers and internal teams to ensure our engagements are set up for success from the pre‑sales cycle. Additionally, you will need to be hands‑on with our customers – delivering these architecture services and working with our post‑sales teams and our customers IT teams in making sure the requirements are met in a timeline manner. A strong customer orientation, exceptional collaboration skills and a solid technical background are key elements for success in this role. This role will define, execute and deliver on custom demos and proofs of concept (POCs) in support of sales opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Be a subject matter expert for the Bloomreach Discovery platform for both technical and business audiences
• Own all technical elements (technical discovery, demo prep, execute technical POCs) for Discovery sales cycle, from scoping and success criteria to hands‑on setup, validation, analysis, and executive readouts.
• Lead technical discovery and solution design: map requirements, design feasible integration approaches, and document a clear high‑level architecture (HLD), with risks/assumptions and measurable outcomes.
• Design and validate data flows for Discovery: catalog ingestion and modeling, event/pixel strategy, API usage patterns, caching/performance considerations, and search/relevance configuration guidance.
• Partner with Solution Consultants to craft compelling technical narratives and tailored demos that align to customer KPIs, buying criteria, and MEDDPICC qualification.
• Co‑scope with agency/SI partners during presales: align roles and responsibilities, apply quality/peer‑review gates, and ensure a clean handover to Services or partner delivery teams.
• Drive excellent handoffs: package HLDs, scope/estimates, RACI, and risk/assumption logs for Services; remain engaged to de‑risk delivery where needed.
• Contribute reusable assets (templates, checklists, patterns) that speed future evaluations; mentor SCs on technical components of Discovery opportunities.
• Support RFP/RFI/security questionnaires and handle technical objections with credibility and clarity.
• Stay current on product and ecosystem capabilities; channel field feedback into product and delivery best practices.

The ideal candidate

• Has a BS in Information Systems / Computer Science, or equivalent degree
• Has 3+ years of Commerce experience (as a system integrator, in‑house engineer, or in sales of a Commerce solution)
• 3+ years of experience in technical positions (software engineering, development, solution engineering) working in complex IT environments
• Expertise in commerce search and discovery, including indexing and feed pipelines, catalog/taxonomy design, facets/filters, boosting/re‑ranking, and analytics‑driven A/B testing.
• API‑first and data‑focused solutioning, covering data modeling, event pipelines/pixel strategies, and tag management.
• Presales excellence: consultative discovery, stakeholder mapping, technical objection handling, and translating technical depth into executive‑friendly narratives; familiarity with MEDDPICC is a plus.
• Strong understanding of AI, ML, LLMs, and GenAI concepts, including how they apply to modern digital commerce and customer experiences.
• Experience with development or implementation on leading e‑commerce platforms such as Shopify, Salesforce Commerce Cloud etc is a strong plus.
• Collaboration superpowers: you align AEs, SCs, Partners, and Services around an evaluation path everyone trusts.
• Communication: excellent written and verbal English; additional European languages are a plus.

More things you'll like about Bloomreach:

Culture:

A great deal of freedom and trust. At Bloomreach we don’t clock in and out, and we have neither corporate rules nor long approval processes. This freedom goes hand in hand with responsibility. We are interested in results from day one.

We have defined our 5 values and the 10 underlying key behaviors that we strongly believe in. We can only succeed if everyone lives these behaviors day to day. We’ve embedded them in our processes like recruitment, onboarding, feedback, personal development, performance review and internal communication.

We believe in flexible working hours to accommodate your working style.

We work virtual‑first with several Bloomreach Hubs available across three continents.

We organize company events to experience the global spirit of the company and get excited about what’s ahead.

We encourage and support our employees to engage in volunteering activities – every Bloomreacher can take 5 paid days off to volunteer.

We have a People Development Program – participating in personal development workshops on various topics run by experts from inside the company. We are continuously developing & updating competency maps for select functions.

Our resident communication coach Ivo Večeřa is available to help navigate work‑related communications & decision‑making challenges.

Our managers are strongly encouraged to participate in the Leader Development Program to develop in the areas we consider essential for any leader. The program includes regular comprehensive feedback, consultations with a coach and follow‑up check‑ins.

Bloomreachers utilize the $1,500 professional education budget on an annual basis to purchase education products (books, courses, certifications, etc.).

The Employee Assistance Program – with counselors – is available for non‑work‑related challenges.

Subscription to Calm – sleep and meditation app.

We organize “DisConnect” days where Bloomreachers globally enjoy one additional day off each quarter, allowing us to unwind together and focus on activities away from the screen with our loved ones.

We facilitate sports, yoga, and meditation opportunities for each other.

Extended parental leave up to 26 calendar weeks for Primary Caregivers.

Compensation:

Restricted Stock Units or Stock Options are granted depending on a team member’s role, seniority, and location.

Everyone gets to participate in the company’s performance bonus.

We offer an employee referral bonus of up to $3,000 paid out immediately after the new hire starts.

We reward & celebrate work anniversaries – Bloomversaries!

Excited? Join us and transform the future of commerce experiences!

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As set forth in Bloomreach’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.