Principal Lead Solution Architect - Data & Corporate

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Location:

Corby, ENG, GB, NN17 9FH

Brand: RS

Function: Digital & Technology

Custom Field 3:

About The Role

We are on a journey to becoming First Choice for all customers, suppliers, and our own people towards destination 2025.

Our Team, Strategy, and Architecture,is part of a thriving product, engineering, data, operations, and digital community that together design, develop and operate all of RS’ global digital services. We work on some of the most exciting product developments and enterprise initiatives, and we design the technology solutions to support these. For example, we:

• Ensure our products, platforms, and services are built to meet and exceed customers’ expectations
• Help others across the business to achieve more through technology
• Facilitate technical design working with our many agile and cross-functional teams
• Maintain a holistic view of the technology roadmaps for the company
• Champion technical excellence and the art of the possible
  
  

The Stack

We use the following technologies and we’re completely open for people to bring their own experiences and change to make the engineering culture better.

• Cloud: predominantly AWS but Google and others too
• Data: Cloudera ecosystem, Snowflake, plus several integrated tools
• Marketing: Adobe, Google plus a slew of ad tech
• ML and AI: using all the above
• Containers: from docker, hashicorp, and the cloud-native foundation
• Custom development: Java, node.js, graphql, react, and much more
• DevOps: we like engineers to own their technology choices and work with them on automation, testing, security, and monitoring
  
  

As a Principal Lead Solution Architect for Data and Corporate, you will have full accountability for:

• Providing team leadership and resource management for the Solution Architects working in the Data portfolio and Corporate technology domains.
• Accountable for the architecture & overall design for major/strategic projects in line with the output of the Enterprise Architects and providing the boundaries within which the project teams can subsequently deliver.
• Support the business sponsors and enterprise architects with strategic guidance, views and sequencing
• Actively participate in robust governance processes relating to target and transition conceptual, logical, and physical architectures for application/technology solutions
• Facilitate the process of making Key Design decisions, ensuring that all key stakeholders can contribute to the process.
• Communicate the reasoning and implications of key architectural decisions to senior management stakeholders
• Administration of cross-functional Design Working Groups to discuss, agree and communicate key design elements.
• Ensuring that the programmes, projects, and initiatives are aware of and comply with the documented Architectural governance processes.
• Represent Technology and Architecture as the most experienced Technology team member on large Programmes and Projects. Attend programme and project boards as required to discuss progress and handle escalations on behalf of the technology function.
  
  

Fuelling your passion:

To be successful in this role you will have experience in:

• Integrated systems (e.g., between bespoke, open-source, commercial the shelf, and SaaS)
• Platforms (e.g., frameworks, ERPs, Search, PaaS, serverless)
• Deployment environments (e.g., virtualisation, containers, and automation of these)
• Infrastructure (e.g., datacentres, networks, and cloud)
• Scalable architectural patterns (e.g., SOA, micro-services, API management, event-driven)
• Web and mobile solutions (e.g., internet, HTTP, CDN, browser, and native)
• Supply chain (e.g., ERP, WMS, and OMS)
• Security and robustness (e.g., identity and access control, scalability, usability, maintainability, monitoring, alerting, etc)
• General Architectural design (e.g., methodologies, diagrams, analysis, specifications)
• Leadership (e.g., experience in managing teams or operating in a leadership position)
• Communication (e.g., face to face or in large groups, verbal or written)
  
  

Working with us

We want you to experience the freedom and autonomy to realise your potential, share your ideas and make them happen. We want you to feel supported and listened to by a team that celebrates individuality and independent thought, encourages different perspectives and embraces every background.

The Good Stuff

We have an outstanding benefits package, which includes:

• Up to 30% Bonus
• Healthcare, PMI.
• 27 days holiday (with the option to purchase a further week)
• EAP Programme
• Virtual GP access
• Discounted stock options
• Extremely generous contributory Pension scheme
• Childcare vouchers
• Life assurance
  
  

We are RS

We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive culture where our people get to bring their true self-work every day and thrive. We understand that a diverse and representative workforce is critical to our success, and our aim is to create a business where people can be their best selves. Our employees expect this as a matter of course and it is fundamental to how we attract, develop, and hold on to the best talent.

Electrocomponents Digital is a £1BN+ (70% share) digital business at the heart of the group. Our mission is to create an unrivalled digital footprint and experience. Our intention is to become the world’s benchmark for digital.

• We are a FTSE100 company and make over £1.6bn per year. We are in the top 10 fastest growing companies on the FTSE.
• Our digital platforms generate £multimillion per day, create over 20 million Digital Advertising impressions per day and serve 32 core markets globally