Senior Solution Architect

Senior Solution Architect at Burberry leads end-to-end solution design for complex initiatives, translating enterprise direction into scalable, secure designs. You bridge Enterprise Architects and delivery teams, provide design assurance, and guide cross-domain programs. You shape reusable patterns and drive governance and risk-aware architectures. You will work with cross-functional squads to unlock scalable luxury platforms.

• Lead end-to-end solution design for complex initiatives across applications, integrations, data, cloud, infrastructure and security.
• Translate enterprise principles and roadmaps into practical designs balancing pace, cost, quality, risk and sustainability.
• Provide design authority and assurance across squads, programs, and partner-delivered work.
• Ensure designs conform to enterprise standards, guardrails, security, and architecture patterns.
• Engage early in demand shaping, feasibility input, dependency identification and technical risk assessment.
• Flex onto cross-domain programs and high-priority initiatives requiring senior oversight.
• Act as the senior technical voice in large-scale migrations, vendor implementations, integrations and major changes.
• Coach Solution Architects to improve quality and consistency; contribute to reusable patterns and playbooks.
• Participate in architecture governance forums and provide recommendations and decision support.

• Significant experience in solution architecture across complex, multi-system and cross-domain initiatives.
• Broad technical breadth across application, integration, data, cloud, security and infrastructure with depth in one or more areas.
• Proven ability to translate enterprise direction into practical designs for delivery teams.
• Experience providing design assurance and architecture governance across product, program and partner delivery.
• Credible technical authority able to challenge engineers, vendors and partners constructively.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills for senior technical and business stakeholders.
• Experience coaching Solution Architects or design leads.
• Comfort operating in a matrixed organization and across high-priority demand.
• Experience with core enterprise platforms such as SAP, Salesforce, Databricks, integration middleware or cloud platforms.

• stakeholder management
• clear communication
• coaching and mentoring
• end-to-end solution design
• architecture governance
• design assurance