Strategic Retail & Supply Chain Solution Architect

Boots.com; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Boots Retirement Savings Plan

Employee discounts for family

Enhanced parental leave

Discretionary annual bonus

Flexible benefits scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Job summary

Boots is seeking a Solution Architect for Retail & Supply Chain in Nottingham/Beeston. You will shape end-to-end solution designs, translate business needs into actionable designs, and work with delivery teams to ensure successful deployment.

The role emphasizes practical architecture, governance alignment, and collaboration with Product Owners, Analysts, Security, Infrastructure, and Data teams to deliver value across retail and supply chain initiatives.

Qualifications

• Good working knowledge of architecture methods and governance.
• Able to communicate solution options, risks, and design decisions clearly.
• Able to prioritise work across project demands and delivery outcomes.
• Delivery-focused with ownership of outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Shape end-to-end solution designs for Retail and Supply Chain initiatives.
• Create architecture outputs to support governance and decision-making.
• Ensure solutions are practical, scalable, and enterprise-aligned.
• Collaborate with delivery teams and partners through build, test and transition.
• Maintain architectural integrity while balancing pace, risk and cost.
• Translate business needs into actionable solutions with stakeholders.
• Support early shaping and high-level estimation activity.
• Apply architecture standards and reusable patterns.

Skills

TOGAF-aligned

Stakeholder communication

Architecture governance

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Boots is seeking a Solution Architect for Retail & Supply Chain in Nottingham/Beeston. You will shape end-to-end solution designs, translate business needs into actionable designs, and work with delivery teams to ensure successful deployment.

The role emphasizes practical architecture, governance alignment, and collaboration with Product Owners, Analysts, Security, Infrastructure, and Data teams to deliver value across retail and supply chain initiatives.