Strategic Solution Architect, Cloud & API Delivery

Currys-; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Currys invites an experienced Solution Architect to shape, deliver, and evolve technology solutions across a portfolio of business-critical initiatives. You will own end-to-end design, evaluate business needs, collaborate with delivery partners, and ensure solutions are aligned, cost-effective, and architecturally sound across UK operations.

Based in a hybrid role at Waterloo, you will work with Omnichannel, Commercial, IT, Finance, and Analytics teams, guiding other architects, maintaining

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years’ IT architecture experience with solution design responsibility.
• Expertise across networks, data, application, systems, and integration.
• Experience in API-first environments.
• Understanding of cloud hosting platforms (Azure preferred).
• Experience in fast-paced IT delivery environments and mixed SDLC (Agile & Waterfall).
• Excellent written, verbal, and visual communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead creation, analysis, and review of solution architectures across projects.
• Own end-to-end design of solutions aligning business needs with technical requirements.
• Define components, services, technologies, and designs across architecture domains.
• Oversee and guide solution development across hardware, software, and operability.
• Provide architectural leadership to delivery teams and partners.
• Maintain architecture repository and ensure artefacts quality.
• Validate testing approaches and ensure technical completeness.
• Mentor team members and promote high standards of delivery.

Skills

IT architecture

API-first

Cloud (Azure)

SDLC (Agile & Waterfall)

Stakeholder communication

Retail/ecommerce experience

Job description

Currys invites an experienced Solution Architect to shape, deliver, and evolve technology solutions across a portfolio of business-critical initiatives. You will own end-to-end design, evaluate business needs, collaborate with delivery partners, and ensure solutions are aligned, cost-effective, and architecturally sound across UK operations.

Based in a hybrid role at Waterloo, you will work with Omnichannel, Commercial, IT, Finance, and Analytics teams, guiding other architects, maintaining