Group Architect (eCommerce)
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London | Hybrid 2 days per week onsite | Permanent | Competitive Salary + Excellent Benefits
ARCA Consulting is proud to be partnering with a leading UK ecommerce company to recruit an experienced Group Architect - ecommerce.
This is a rare opportunity to shape the technology strategy behind a large-scale ecommerce and cross-channel business, leading the architecture direction for customer-facing platforms and digital experiences that serve millions of customers.
If you're an experienced Enterprise, Domain or Lead Architect with a strong eCommerce background and a passion for customer experience, digital transformation and architecture leadership, this is an opportunity to make a genuine strategic impact.
The Opportunity
As Group Architect (eCommerce), you'll own the architecture vision, roadmap and technology direction across the customer and cross-channel portfolio.
Working closely with senior technology leaders, product teams, engineering, delivery and business stakeholders, you'll ensure architecture decisions enable exceptional customer experiences while supporting long-term business strategy.
You'll also lead and mentor a team of Solution Architects, providing governance, technical leadership and architectural assurance across a broad portfolio of customer-facing initiatives.
What You'll Be Doing
- Define and own the architecture strategy, roadmap and target state for the customer and omnichannel domain.
- Shape technology direction across digital commerce, mobile, customer identity, CRM, fulfilment and customer engagement platforms.
- Partner with senior stakeholders to align architecture with business strategy, customer experience objectives and digital transformation programmes.
- Lead, coach and develop a team of Solution Architects, promoting architecture best practice across the organisation.
- Ensure solution designs are scalable, secure, resilient and aligned with enterprise architecture principles.
- Drive technology simplification, reducing technical debt while increasing reuse and consistency across platforms.
- Provide architectural governance through design reviews, design authority and architecture decision processes. xgikmsk
- Evaluate emerging technologies, SaaS platforms and AI-enabled capabilities to support future business growth.
- Champion architecture excellence, innovation and continuous imp...
