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The Mission Architect serves as the single, accountable Enterprise Architect for a critical business Mission, translating commercial strategy into a resilient, flow-optimised technology roadmap. Your primary function is to provide the architectural strategy required to support a complex, cross value stream business outcome, ensuring technology design directly drives customer and commercial value.
Job Responsibility:
Serve as the single, accountable Enterprise Architect for a critical business Mission, translating commercial strategy into a resilient, flow-optimised technology roadmap
Help to understand the business problem space and define the domain boundaries to help define an adaptive architecture
Act as the designer of the socio-technical system for the Mission
Partner with Product and Business stakeholders to deeply understand the problem space and user needs
Collaborate closely with key stakeholders such as Product Leads, Delivery and Operations Managers, Infrastructure Leads, other Enterprise Architects, Solution Architects and Principal Engineers
Requirements:
Systems Thinking Mastery & Engineering Flow: Proven, real-world experience in applying and evolving techniques such as Domain-Driven Design (DDD), Mapping, and Team Topologies to strategically define and evolve organizational and system boundaries
Transformation Track Record: Extensive experience in a senior architecture role tackling ambiguous, cross-cutting "Mission" type work that involves modernising or encapsulating legacy systems
Business Architecture Linkage: Demonstrated ability to map business capability requirements to technical architecture
IT Lifecycle Acumen: Experience of working across the entire IT lifecycle with the ability to balance long-term strategic outcomes with short-term commercial drivers
Proven ability to leverage internal and external networks to gain insight into customer requirements, market conditions, and technology trends
Experience of influencing a diverse set of stakeholders at Senior Leadership levels on a major transformation
Experience of the technical implementation of package solutions into large complex environments with a mix of modern and heritage technology
Knowledge/experience of working with different architectural styles (e.g. monolith, service based, microservices) and integration patterns when working with different platforms (broker models, RESTful, streams, event based)
Nice to have:
Retail experience
Software engineering experience
What we offer:
Leisure Learning: up to £200 towards certain tutored courses
Partner Discount: 25% off at John Lewis and 20% at Waitrose