Digital Solution Architect, flexible working

2 weeks ago

South Shields Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom Barbour Full time

Founder John Barbour began supplying oilskins and other garments to protect the growing community of sailors, fishermen and dockers. Under the leadership of Chairman Dame Margaret Barbour, Barbour has grown into a lifestyle brand sold in over 55 countries worldwide including Europe, the US and Asia offering a wardrobe of stylish functional clothing, footwear and accessories inspired by the unique values of the British countryside. The iconic Barbour Bedale and Barbour Beaufort wax jackets continue to be made by hand in the factory in South Shields. In 2020, Barbour launched Wax for Life, an overarching name for all of Barbour’s wax services designed to encourage customers to extend the life of their wax garments. We currently have an opportunity for an experienced Solutions Architect to join our IT team based at our Head Office in South Shields. A well-architected, flexible, scalable and secure applications landscape is critical to our business as it provides the capability to design, manufacture and source our iconic menswear, womenswear and footwear and sell and ship them to our wholesale customers, e-commerce and retail customers.

Exceptional knowledge of ERP, MRP, B2B and B2C systems and integration are required to be able to work with business stakeholders, software vendors, systems integrators, IT Integration Team and Product Owners to design and present solution options. It is expected this role will be significantly hands-on in business systems, particularly ERP, and the successful candidate will immerse themselves into the day-to-day workings of the business to gain a deeper understanding. Define, document and maintain the systems architecture model to provide a flexible, robust and scalable solutions blueprint for the global Barbour operations.
Work with business stakeholders, software vendors, systems integrators, IT Integration Team and Product Owners to design and present solution options.
Review the proposed solutions of System Analysts to ensure they meet the business requirements while conforming to defined IT standards and requirements for flexibility, robustness and scalability.
Provide leadership and expertise in supporting systems failures, major incidents, system integration testing and complex support and integration issues impacting Barbour’s business operations.
Represent Barbour in external projects with customers and suppliers.

Microsoft technologies such as MS SQL Server Stack, Azure, Azure DevOps
Expert SQL Server developer (all version), especially TSQL, SSIS and deployment strategies
Integration technologies including APIs, XML and payloads and protocols
Data base architecture
Experience of working with the principles of Agile project delivery methodology
Expert business analysis skills to facilitate successful discovery workshops across multiple operational and back-office business functions.
Discretionary Company bonus scheme
~ Staff discount
~ Healthcare cash plan
~25 days holiday as standard increasing with length of service plus bank holidays
~ Free onsite parking
~ Subsidised canteen


Please apply as soon as possible if interested.

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