Head of Solution Architecture, Boden
+ Targeted annual bonus scheme
Office located in Boden House, London
British style clothing
Be an early applicant
British style clothing
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
+ Targeted annual bonus scheme
Office located in Boden House, London
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To create clothes that bring colour to our customers' wardrobes and fun to their lives.
Role
Who you are
- Someone who enjoys leading high-performing teams, using a balance of technical and people skills
- You’ll need a real talent for problem solving a love of all things tech and the ability to combine logical and analytical thinking with strong interpersonal skills
- You are hands-on, collaborative, passionate about customer experiences and the technology industry
- A keen awareness of architectural design patterns especially within eventing and microservices
- Experience building a team
- Ability to work across disciplines in technology to build a consensus
What the job involves
- As Head of Solution Architecture, you will report to our Director of Engineering and your role will be to build out the processes, templates and structures within our solution architecture function to enable a consistent approach for solution architecture across our domains
- As well as this you will be responsible for growing the individuals in our architecture team, helping them to understand how to act as a technical authority while still empowering our teams to contribute to solutions
- Lead and manage a team of Solution Architects across our domains
- Build an understanding of our technology landscape and leverage your team to ensure it is accurately and consistently documented
- Define and own the processes for Solution Architecture ensuring our approach to defining solutions is consistent and communicated effectively across technology stakeholders
- Own the Technical Design Forum ensuring technical decisions are made in a way that is aligned across the technical disciplines as well as across different domains
- Stylish, grounded, uplifting – these values live through everything we do at Boden
- Without the collaboration, honesty and friendship between our teams, we wouldn’t be where we are today
- Work with our Head of Engineering, Head of Data Engineering, Snr Head of Product and Head of Applications to define a technology strategy that maps our business strategy and capabilities into our technologies and environments
- Define the Principles and Policies that guide our solution decisions
- Consult with the Head of Engineering on the standards they define and ensure there is alignment between principles and standards
- Own and develop the end-to-end Solution Architecture, based around event-driven microservices and AWS PAAS
- Ensure appropriate governance of designs and technology decisions according to agreed architectural principles, standards and templates
- Ensure that the architecture is aligned with the company's security, compliance, and regulatory requirements
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Initially set up as a mail order company in 1991, Boden has since become a major UK fashion brand specialising in quality clothing designed to stand the test of time. They have 2 million active customers worldwide, and have attracted high profile buyers including Kate Middleton, Michelle Obama, and Holly Willoughby.
Previously relying on catalogue sales, they were unable to achieve the real time responsiveness vital in today’s retail industry. As a result, in the past few years Boden’s heavily invested in modernising their IT systems and created a new way to capture data on their site. Having adapted to changing consumer behaviours, now 95% of their sales happen online, enabling them to compete with the growing number of eCommerce competitors like ME + EM and Mint Velvet.
This new digital approach has not been their only success in recent years. Traditionally, many UK retailers have failed to gain a foothold in the US. However, the company’s quintessential British branding has successfully set them apart, leading to Boden’s US sales already overtaking those in the UK and the business continues to grow faster there.
Moving forwards, Boden is overcoming a 2023 dip in sales triggered by an unneeded menswear revamp that lost sight of its core customer base. It is now reverting back to its classic formula and planning on further expansion in the US, determined to double sales in the next few years.
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Company benefits
- Flexible Hybrid Working
- Targeted Annual Bonus Scheme
- Generous Boden Clothing Allowance & 30% Discount on All Current Clothing Ranges
- Holiday Increase With Years of Service
- Portal With An Array of Discounts & Cashback Offers on Retail & Entertainment
- Group Personal Pension Scheme & Life Insurance Cover
- 24/7 Virtual GP Service For You & Your Household
- Free Onsite Parking, Teas & Coffee Stations & Subsidised Café With Free Toast For Breakfast
Company values
- Clothes that make you smile? We’re on it! We’re also friendly, kind and always ready with a hefty dollop of wit
- Stylish: We’re stylish, not slavish. Fashion isn’t a pretentious, po-faced affair. Not here anyway. With us, the feel-good factor is everything, and we have that in oodles.
- Grounded: We don’t take ourselves too seriously. We are grounded, genuine. Real, in fact. We’d never behave like a… (you know the kind of word we can’t use here)
- Uplifting: Put that all together and what do you get? Plain and simple, beautiful and uplifting… JOY.
Company HQ
London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Johnnie Boden
(Creative Director)Started Boden in 1991 from their kitchen table with an eight-piece menswear collection, and has since expanded the company to the titan it is today.
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