Requisition ID 10347 - Posted - Years of Experience (3) - Technology - Where (1) - Job

Retail Reply is the Reply Group company specialised in helping clients accelerate their response to the opportunities of digital transformation and customer experience, both in-store and online, in the retail, fashion and consumer sector. Retail Reply supports clients’ digital transformation across Digital Strategy, Planning, and Delivery. Our expertise includes IT architecture, digital product delivery, point of sale implementation, loyalty & promotion-engine development and execution, online and mobile customer experience, omnichannel implementation via microservices architecture, and capability-led planning.

Role overview:

As a Solution Architect you will work with client Architects and Business teams to ensure that solutions are effective and deliver against the clients overall Business Strategy. We expect our consultants to be self-starters and highly motivated to work in an entrepreneurial way that compliments and enhances our approach to Architecture, supporting pre-sales activities as necessary and assisting in the development of Retail Reply intellectual property. As well as understanding the more traditional methods of architecting solutions, we embrace new approaches that help drive engineering changes to deliver solutions of value to our clients. You will apply agile and different modes of delivery to maximise investments made by our clients.

Responsibilities:

Deliver high quality architecture propositions to our Retail Reply clients
Use a combination of innovative and ‘tried and tested’ approaches and frameworks
Be flexible and adaptable in order to deliver the appropriate solutions that meet and exceed our clients’ needs
Support pre-sales activities as necessary and assist in the development of Retail Reply intellectual property
Understand and learn the more traditional methods of architecting solutions and embrace new approaches that help drive engineering changes
Deliver solutions of value to our clients by applying agile and different modes of delivery to maximise investments made by our clients

About the candidate:

A minimum Bachelor’s degree (2.1 or higher) is required in IT, Computer Science, or in a Technology-related field

Owned and created complete Architectures including all associated documentation while ensuring that solutions meet budgetary constraints.

Good stakeholder management abilities and vendor management.

Excellent grasp of integration, data, application, infrastructure and business domains is essential, as well as a specialism in at least one of these domains.

Able to articulate architectural vision through capability led planning.

Preferably experienced in at least one Architecture framework (e.g. TOGAF, Zachman, POET & PEAF etc.).

An in-depth understanding of Retail and/or related industries such as FMCG and hospitality, enabling you to empathise with the challenges we and our clients face.

Reply is an Equal Opportunities Employer and committed to embracing diversity in the workplace. We provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type regardless of age, sexual orientation, gender, identity, pregnancy, religion, nationality, ethnic origin, disability, medical history, skin colour, marital status or parental status or any other characteristic protected by the Law.

Reply is committed to making sure that our selection methods are fair to everyone. To help you during the recruitment process, please let us know of any Reasonable Adjustments you may need.

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