Senior Solutions Architect - Retail Technology

Salary: £45,000 - 85,000 per year

Requirements:

• Proven experience designing and delivering complex enterprise-scale solutions.
• Strong architectural leadership skills, balancing strategic vision with pragmatic delivery.
• Experience defining technology roadmaps and influencing senior stakeholders.
• The ability to navigate ambiguity, solve complex problems and drive informed technical decisions.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to engage technical and non-technical audiences alike.
• Experience working within Agile delivery environments and modern product organisations.
• A collaborative approach, coupled with the confidence to challenge constructively and influence outcomes.
• A track record of driving architectural best practice and continuous improvement.
• Experience across Java.
• Experience across Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Experience across cloud-native architecture and distributed systems.
• Experience across API-led integration and modern engineering practices.
• Experience in any of the following would be advantageous: Spring Boot, Oracle Database, Terraform, React, AWS API Gateway, AWS RDS.

Responsibilities:

• Provide architectural leadership across complex technology initiatives, ensuring solutions deliver business value while adhering to enterprise standards and best practice.
• Shape architecture roadmaps that align technology strategy with business objectives.
• Design scalable, secure and resilient solutions across a modern cloud-based ecosystem.
• Lead solution architecture for large-scale, business-critical programmes and products.
• Partner with Product, Engineering and Delivery teams to define technology direction and delivery approaches.
• Provide technical leadership on complex risks, dependencies and architectural challenges.
• Drive architectural governance, ensuring solutions align with standards, principles and target architecture.
• Evaluate technologies and recommend solutions that support future business growth.
• Influence stakeholders across Technology and the wider business, translating complex technical concepts into clear business outcomes.
• Support the evolution of our cloud-native architecture and engineering capabilities.
• Champion Agile and Lean delivery practices within multidisciplinary teams.

Technologies:

• API
• AWS
• Cloud
• Support
• Java
• Oracle
• React
• Spring
• Spring Boot
• Terraform
• Web
• Architect

More:

We are the team behind digital retailer Very, and our purpose of helping families get more out of life powers everything we do. We offer flexibility, great perks and benefits, and the freedom to be yourself, keep learning and grow your career. Our Retail Tribe sits at the heart of our digital transformation journey, modernising legacy platforms, embracing cloud technologies and building innovative solutions for sourcing, planning, buying, merchandising, pricing, promotions, product information, retail operations and commercial systems. We offer a flexible, hybrid working model, an inclusive culture, a flexible benefits allowance, 30 days holiday plus bank holidays, LinkedIn Learning access, bonus potential, up to 25% discount on Very.co.uk and matched pension up to 6%.

last updated 34 week of 2026