Strategic Digital Solutions Architect - Enterprise Impact

Mecca Brands; Letchworth; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Professional development

Health & wellbeing initiatives

Bonus & incentive programs

Product allowance

Employee discount

4-day in-office week

Job summary

MECCA Brands is rebuilding its digital platforms and seeks a Solution Architect to shape the architecture behind the initiative. You’ll partner with Product, Engineering and Delivery from discovery through implementation across eCommerce, Mobile, Customer Identity, Loyalty and Marketing.

You’ll influence solution options, produce architecture artefacts, define scalable patterns, and mentor engineers while collaborating with governance forums.

Qualifications

• 7+ years’ 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 working 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 the 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

Digital Commerce

API-first

Cloud-native

Security & governance

Stakeholder engagement

Agile delivery

Job description

MECCA Brands is rebuilding its digital platforms and seeks a Solution Architect to shape the architecture behind the initiative. You’ll partner with Product, Engineering and Delivery from discovery through implementation across eCommerce, Mobile, Customer Identity, Loyalty and Marketing.

You’ll influence solution options, produce architecture artefacts, define scalable patterns, and mentor engineers while collaborating with governance forums.