Digital Solutions Architect, New Look
1-3 days a week in office
Global fashion retailer
Job no longer available
Global fashion retailer
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1-3 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
Our aim is to uplift our customers, colleagues and suppliers while striving to make kinder choices for our people and planet.
Role
Who you are
- 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
What the job involves
- 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 microservice
- 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
Salary benchmarks
Our take
New Look, a well-known UK fashion retailer with over 380 stores, has been a staple of the British retail scene since the late 1960s. Though it has faced challenges in the competitive retail landscape, including entering and exiting international markets, the company has steadily evolved its business model.
Though still shedding its "fast fashion" label, New Look's recent changes signal a more focused direction. With the company reducing its UK store footprint and withdrawing from international markets to concentrate on sustainability and digital growth.
In line with these efforts, New Look has partnered with blockchain traceability startup TrusTrace to enhance transparency in its supply chain. The collaboration supports the company's ambitious sustainability targets, including a 46% reduction in carbon emissions by 2031 and achieving Net Zero by 2040.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
4% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- 40% staff discount plus friends & family discounts throughout the year
- Access to our reward platform for external discount and offers
- Private pension scheme
- Profit related bonus scheme
- Company Car allowance - you can use it to buy, lease or fund your current vehicle or take as cash benefit (Manager level and above)
- AXA Private Medical Scheme
- Virtual GP access for you and your children – it allows you to speak to a doctor at a time and date that suits you
- All employees are covered by our life assurance policy from day one
- Unlock extra leave with our buy more holiday scheme
- Celebrate YOU! Enjoy an extra paid day off on your birthday each year
- Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave, and shared parental leave
- Spread the cost of your commute with interest-free season ticket loans
- Do your bit for the environment and save money with our Cycle2Work scheme
- We're proud to partner with the Retail Trust and Fashion & Textile Children's Trust
Company HQ
Shadwell, London, UK
Leadership
Helen Connolly
(CEO)Helen was appointed to the Board of Directors in January 2022 when she became CEO. Previously CEO at Bonmarche, and senior roles at George at Asda, Dorothy Perkins and Next.
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