London Office – Digital Solution Architect Full Time

New Look
London Office – Digital Solution Architect

London, UK Req

05 August 2024

From our first store in the 1960s, a little Taunton shop with great clothes and even better prices, to an omni-channel business serving millions of customers we’re New Look.

Our purpose is always to inspire That New Look Feeling and we believe that starts with us. Our values motivate us every day: we play to win, we’re customer-obsessed and we work as one.

It’s a busy and exciting time for the brand and we’re on the hunt for a Digital Solutions Architect to join our growing Technology team.

The Team

Our IT team don’t accept the status quo, we think disruptively about Technology and how we can use it. We collaborate with the business to deliver that technology which supports our business ambition to be the leading omnichannel retailer. We strive to do the right thing, always, focusing on safe, secure and reliable operations, while seeking out quality technology for our customers and colleagues to support and drive our business goals. By focusing on the value, we’re creating and ensuring our delivery choices suit the product and project ambitions, we challenge ourselves and thrive.

The Role:

Are you a solution architect with deep experience and passion for e-commerce? At New Look we are re-architecting our commerce site into a market-leading MACH (Microservices, API first, Cloud-native and Headless) platform as the core of our omni-channel business.

You will be embedded in multi-disciplinary digital development squads to design and build key platform components and integrate new microservices. Collaborating closely with product and architecture leadership you will help to establish the roadmap and priorities for your squads; platform engineering teams will support you in keeping to best practice for integration, cloud infrastructure and DevOps.

As a digital solution architect, you will be expected to have a firm grasp of New Look’s technology strategy to provide technical direction to engineering teams and drive key design decisions for the platform. You will become the go-to person in your domain and a key technical leader for IT.

About You:

• Subject matter expert in MACH (Microservices, API First, Cloud-native & Headless) architecture to design, develop and deploy applications
• Extensive experience and knowledge of e-commerce, omni-channel commerce, and retail processes, systems, and functions.
• Implementation experience with one or more of enterprise-grade commerce platforms, enterprise resource planning, content management systems, digital experience platform, order management systems and identity management (agency or client-side).
• Preferably familiar with implementing one or more platforms for e-commerce (Commercetools, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, SAP Commerce, BigCommerce, Shopify Plus)
• Familiarity with building responsive websites for mobile and desktop with frontend technologies including Node.js, NestJS and React.
• Exposure to supporting technologies including Kubernetes, GraphQL, containerisation
• Experience working with Cloud Platforms with experience of at least one of Azure, AWS, GCP
• Good understanding of modern DevOps and automated testing methodologies such as CI/CD, BDD, TDD etc.
• Good understanding of Security and Information Assurance
• Prior experience as lead/principal engineer or solution architect required
• Proven record of delivering large scale change with agile/lean methodologies

Why New Look?

The amazing people, the fashion – there are so many reasons to love working at New Look. We prioritise development, offering training to support your progression, so you can be your absolute best and achieve your goals. You’ll also receive these amazing benefits, to name only a few:

• Monthly 25% off privilege vouchers for family and friends to enjoy
• Season ticket loans
• Virtual GP access

Being part of the New Look Team means you get access to a great range of benefits & perks:

• You’ll love our generous staff discount – 40% off for you and a loved one, and 25% off for up to 12 friends and family members!
• Get special access to hundreds of discounts from top retailers and gyms, along with free workout classes, on our rewards platform Runway.
• Plan for your retirement while you work with our contributory private pension scheme.
• We’re all about celebrating our success, so we have a profit-related bonus scheme.
• Upgrade your commute with our company car allowance – you can use it to buy, lease or fund your current vehicle.
• Our family-friendly policies include enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave, and shared parental leave.
• Receive quick access to consultations and treatments with AXA Private Medical Scheme, paid for by us.
• Big trip on the cards? Unlock extra leave with our buy more holiday scheme.
• Celebrate YOU! Enjoy an extra paid day off on your birthday each year.
• Do your bit for the environment and save money with our Cycle2Work scheme.
• Spread the cost of your commute with interest-free season ticket loans.
• Running late? No worries, enjoy a free breakfast on us!

Please note – these benefits and perks are non-contractual and may be changed from time to time.

Apply now to find out more!

We pride ourselves on being a flexible employer; our colleagues work a range of patterns. If you have a specific pattern in mind, we’re keen to discuss this with you in line with the output needed for the role.

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