Solutions Architect

2 weeks ago


London, Greater London, United Kingdom John Lewis Partnership Full time £57,600 - £87,000
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Working pattern - We know flexible working is important to you, and it is important to us too.

The Partnership has adopted a hybrid working approach meaning you'll be able to work a mixture between the office and home based upon your personal needs whilst balancing the needs of the business.

The Architecture team aims for around 2 days a week in the office to connect and on a more ad-hoc basis to attend key meetings.

The role is based at our London office.
Contract type - This is a Permanent position.

As a Solution Architect, focused on John Lewis Customer Ordering & Fulfilment capabilities, you will play a critical role on projects or initiatives that shape and modernise the technology capabilities that provide our customers with their preferred products and services, at their preferred time, via their preferred fulfilment option.

This will include managing and orchestrating customer orders, promising products and fulfilment options, managing customer delivery/collection and facilitating transactional comms.

You'll be part of a larger team of Architects sitting in the Technology & Transformation operating model, working to identify the technical capabilities and changes that will enable the Partnership to successfully operate, adapt, and transform through technology across both John Lewis and Waitrose.

Work hand in hand effectively with Business and product teams (across Digital, Customer, Supply Chain) to design end-to-end technology solutions that are effective, efficient and sustainable, and make a tangible difference to the business.

~ Ensure architectural best practice is brought to bear during solution design to increase value, reduce delivery risk, and control technical debt.

~ Help to inform the thinking of senior stakeholders to meet key business and technology challenges . Be an important voice in modernising applications including upgrading them to SaaS (Software as a Service), ensuring we take the opportunity to remove customisations and simplify the solutions.

~ Help ensure JLP delivers on its strategic aims and enables the Partnership to adapt and grow in a competitive and changing market.

Experience of IT solution development, either as a solution architect, or as an analyst (business or technical) or developer.

~ Experience of working with product or agile teams and governing architectural designs and decisions effectively to enable continuous delivery .

~ Knowledge of what deliverables to expect in both waterfall and agile environments and ability to assess quality of deliverables.

~ Experience in generating and pitching proposals / solutions to both IT and Business teams , adapting your style according to the technical or non-technical nature of the audience

~ Be curious and self-starting, and will be able to build a network

~ Domain driven design, Microservices, API-first design, Cloud Native, Continuous Delivery & DevOps, Containerisation and PaaS on GCP or AWS and other data and integration technologies (Event streaming, data lakes etc)

Advise and consult on the commercial and contractual implications of existing or new obligations . Understand and advise on how best to support internal and external policies, whilst managing risk levels, costs and complexities

~ Advise on current and future impacts of changing policy or legislation and the impacts or opportunities that this presents JLP.

~ You'll have experience influencing business ambition to ensure that roadmaps are aligned with the intent of Architecture Guardrails and take accountability for the quality of design work within your domain.

~ Stay up to date with trends and shifts in technology, retail and the wider world, and set this understanding against the business or technology context within which you are working.

Hybrid Working.

  • Excellent work life balance, including focus on well being and flexible working and our market leading Equal Parenthood Leave Policy
  • Depending on your Partnership job level, if you work full time you'll get between 22 and 30 days holiday a year, plus bank holiday entitlement
  • The Partnership has a Defined Contribution pension scheme where your contributions, up to an agreed level, will be matched by the Partnership. You'll get Partnership discount in store and online once you complete Probation. That's 25% off in John Lewis & Partners (12% off electrical products) and 20% in Waitrose & Partners. You'll also be able to nominate someone you live with to share your discount
  • Simple cycle to work support scheme
  • LI-HYBRID

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