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About the Role
The Senior Solution Architect provides architectural leadership for Burberry’s most complex and strategically important delivery initiatives. This role translates enterprise architecture direction into practical, deliverable solution designs that are scalable, secure, supportable, and aligned to Burberry’s technology strategy, acting as a bridge between Enterprise Architects and delivery teams.
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end solution design for complex product and programme initiatives, spanning application, integration, data, cloud, infrastructure and security considerations.
- Translate enterprise architecture principles, standards and roadmaps into practical solution designs that balance pace, cost, quality, risk and long-term sustainability.
- Provide design authority across aligned domains, reviewing and challenging solution designs produced by Solution Architects, engineering teams and third-party partners.
- Ensure solution designs conform to enterprise standards, architecture guardrails, security requirements and agreed technology patterns.
- Provide design assurance across multiple squads and programmes, ensuring consistency across the portfolio rather than within a single delivery team.
- Engage early in demand shaping and portfolio assessment, providing solution feasibility input, ROM estimates, dependency identification and technical risk assessment.
- Flex onto cross-domain programmes and priority initiatives where solution complexity, business criticality or architectural risk requires senior architecture oversight.
- Act as the senior technical voice within major delivery initiatives, including platform migrations, strategic vendor implementations, large-scale integrations and complex system changes.
- Resolve solution-level architectural trade-offs within delivery, escalating to Enterprise Architects or governance forums where decisions have wider enterprise implications.
- Surface recurring risks, integration challenges, design constraints and technical debt from delivery back into enterprise architecture standards and roadmaps.
- Coach and guide Solution Architects within aligned domains, supporting consistency, capability development and quality of architectural output.
- Contribute to reusable solution patterns, reference architectures and design playbooks.
- Participate in architecture governance forums, providing solution-level assurance, recommendations and decision support.
Requirements
- Significant experience in solution architecture, including leading design across complex, multi-system and cross-domain initiatives.
- Strong technical breadth across application, integration, data, cloud, security and infrastructure architecture, with depth in one or more specialist areas.
- Proven ability to translate enterprise architecture direction into practical solution designs that delivery teams can implement.
- Experience providing design assurance and architectural governance across product, programme and partner-led delivery.
- Credible technical authority, able to challenge engineering teams, vendors and third-party partners constructively on design quality and long-term fit.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to explain architectural trade-offs and recommendations clearly to senior technical and business stakeholders.
- Experience coaching or mentoring Solution Architects or technical design leads.
- Comfortable operating in a matrixed organisation, balancing domain alignment with the need to flex across high-priority demand.
- Experience working in Agile, hybrid or squad-based delivery models is preferred.
- Experience with one or more core enterprise platforms such as SAP, Salesforce, Databricks, integration middleware or cloud platforms is preferred.
Experience Level
- Senior
About the Company
- At Burberry, we believe creativity opens spaces. Our purpose is to unlock the power of imagination to push boundaries and open new possibilities for our people, our customers and our communities.
- We aim to provide an environment for creative minds from different backgrounds to thrive, bringing a wide range of skills and experiences to everything we do.
- As a purposeful, values-driven brand, we are committed to being a force for good in the world as well, creating the next generation of sustainable luxury for customers, driving industry change and championing our communities.