Lead Solutions Architect

- Define and drive the enterprise-wide architecture strategy supporting the transition from stack-centric IT to product-led, outcome-focused delivery - Establish an architectural vision aligned with commercial objectives, customer experience goals, and operational scalability - Design and govern integration patterns between modern cloud platforms, distributed retail/wholesale sites - Champion modernisation of Legacy environments, enabling core enterprise capabilities (pricing, inventory, fulfilment) to be consumed via APIs and event-driven interfaces - Act as a trusted advisor to senior technology and business leaders, shaping product strategy through architecture - Define and embed architecture principles, standards, and guardrails to support autonomous product teams - Lead initiatives to transition delivery teams to product-aligned operating models, creating scalable architectural patterns and platforms that accelerate delivery - Ensure non-functional requirements—including security, observability, resilience, and performance—are embedded in product and platform design - Oversee architectural governance in a way that enables delivery rather than constrains it - Mentor and coach solution architects and senior engineers, raising the overall architectural maturity - Play a leading role in architecture forums, communities of practice, and design reviews