Chief Architect, New Look
1-3 days a week in office
Global fashion retailer
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Global fashion retailer
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
1-3 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To uplift customers, colleagues, and suppliers while striving to make kinder choices for our people and planet.
Role
Who you are
- Experience working to ITIL and in Agile environments, continual delivery techniques and DevOps cultures, as well as enterprise-scale change programmes
- A degree in IT or related business topic (desirable)
- Experience of leading an Architecture community
- Experience of leading on retail technology strategies, policies and technology guidelines
- Demonstrable experience in IT industry standards, services, design, architecture principles design, architecture viewpoint design, building block design, solutions modelling and systems behaviour
- Substantial experience in design and delivery using SaaS and public cloud components
- Enterprise Architecture experience (e.g. TOGAF or similar)
What the job involves
- As a Chief Architect at New Look you will be providing technical leadership and strategic vision to the Architecture Team and wider organisation while networking across the organisation to maintain understanding of the enterprise context as a as the enterprise Design Authority
- You will represent and promote New Look’s Architecture and Technology functions internally and externally, act as a role model and build technical architecture capability, ensuring quality and innovative technical solutions are identified
- As a senior technical Design Authority, you will chair meetings, arbitrating design decisions in the business context and acting as the senior escalation point for technology concerns
- You will be evaluating, raising, and communicating technical risk across the organisation, and helping shape the technology programme to mitigate technical risks while mentoring and coaching the architecture community to ensure culture fit, within New Look
- Accountable for the quality of technical output from the Architecture team, ensuring that designs are aligned with technology strategies, design principles and can be implemented in the commercial and business context
- Defining and implementing standards and processes to assure design quality, including principles and measures
- Ensuring that appropriate technologies supporting the enterprise design principles and roadmaps are evaluated, aligned to business goals and market innovation, and formed into actionable Technology strategies
- Ensuring the Architecture Design Principles are aligned with the needs of the enterprise and that they are applied uniformly to all technical output
- Ensure documentation of the enterprise’s system and integration landscape is current
- Responsible for ensuring that all application roadmaps are current, aligned with the needs of the enterprise and the Design Principles, and define a clear architectural vision
- Ensure documentation of the design processes, principles, roadmaps and technology strategies are current, accurate and available
- Ensure the design principles, processes and roadmaps facilitate effective delivery and are adopted by delivery teams
- Support Senior members of the Architecture team in developing and managing a resource plan, ensuring technology architecture needs are met across the organisation
- Provide architectural and technical leadership on large, complex cross-domain change programmes as needed by the organisation
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.
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Insights
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back within 2 weeks
4% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company values
- It Starts With Me - We take accountability for and ownership of everything we do. We're curious and ask the right questions. We're clear about our own purpose, we take time to invest in our personal growth and wellness, and we encourage others to do the same
- Play To Win - We're clear on what we stand for and what we need to achieve. We make informed, fair decisions and celebrate and reward success. We constantly raise the bar and are empowered to be brave and bold in everything we do
- We Are One - Success comes from the collective energy and contribution of all our colleagues. We develop effective relationships, showing compassion and respect for each other. We care about each other and our communities and celebrate diversity
- Customer Obsessed - We know who our customers are. We're here to listen and see things from their point of view. With every project we work on, and every customer we interact with, we surpass their expectations, and always make them feel seen
Company HQ
Shadwell, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Helen Connolly
(CEO)Previously CEO at Bonmarche, Director of Buying Womenswear and Lingerie at George at Asda, Head of Buying at Dorothy Perkins, Arcadia Ltd, and Buying Manager at George @ Asda.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at New Look
- We have six clear inclusion ambitions: - Drive a culture of inclusivity through learning & sharing - Give our colleagues a stronger voice - Represent the customers we serve - Enable people access to the world of work and opportunities to progress & thrive - Ensure that wellbeing is intrinsic within our ED&I strategy by giving our people the tools to look after their own wellbeing, to stay healthy, happy and have a good work-life balance - ED&I is always on and underpins our purpose #inspirethatnewlookfeeling
- We pride ourselves in being a flexible employer. Our colleagues work a range of patterns. If you have a specific pattern in mind, we are keen to discuss this with you in line with the output needed for the role.
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