New Look
Domain Architect - Integration
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New Look
About the Role
At New Look, we’re confident that fashion is a powerful way of making the world brighter—and we’re here to prove it. As Domain Architect for Integration, you will shape the future of how our systems and platforms connect, ensuring agility, security and resilience across our tech estate.
You’ll be responsible for defining and maintaining the integration strategy, target architecture, standards, patterns and roadmap. The role spans collaboration with business portfolios, product teams, engineering, security, infrastructure, data, suppliers, and partners to deliver integration solutions that align with our core values—play to win, customer obsessed, and it starts with me. Your work will empower us to deliver That New Look Feeling for our customers and our teams.
Here’s what you’ll do every day:
The Role
You’ll lead the architecture direction for enterprise integration across our technology estate, working across multiple constituencies to ensure alignment, coherence and sustained success.
Your expertise will guide Solution Architects and engineering teams, ensuring integration designs are secure, resilient, scalable, maintainable, and aligned with our enterprise architecture strategy.
What You’ll Be Doing
Integration Architecture
- Integration Strategy: Define, implement, and maintain the enterprise integration architecture strategy and roadmap, ensuring alignment with New Look’s business strategy and technology roadmap.
- Integration Standards: Set and maintain standards, principles, patterns, and guardrails for:
- APIs
- Events
- Messaging
- Batch processing
- File exchange
- Orchestration
- Service interactions Guarantee these standards are practical, reusable, and understood by architects and delivery teams.
- Architecture Coherence: Ensure design consistency across applications, platforms, data, security, infrastructure, operations, and supplier solutions. driving away from fragmented or short-term integration approaches that increase risk or complexity.
- Technology Simplification: Address integration debt, platform risks, and capability gaps. Remediate through pragmatic modernisation approaches, supporting business agility, resilience, cost control, and long-term maintainability.
Platform and Technology Direction
- Platform Architecture: Lead enterprise integration platforms, including API management, messaging, and eventing capabilities. Ensure platforms are scalable, secure, resilient, and observable for current and future needs.
- Roadmap Planning: Support platform roadmaps, lifecycle management, and investment decisions. Ensure choices align with business priorities, platform health, technology debt risk, supplier engagements, and operational impact.
Architecture Guidance and Assurance
- Collaborate with Stakeholders: Partner with Group Architects, Solution Architects, engineering, business stakeholders, and external vendors to clarify integration requirements and translate them into actionable architecture guidance.
- Solution Support: Advise projects, programmes, and products on integration options, service boundaries, non-functional requirements, dependencies, and risks. Engage in solution options definition, design review, and architecture decision records when complexity or reuse is critical.
- Architecture Governance: Champion standards-compliant integration decisions through architecture review and Design Authority activities. Ensure all decisions are evidence-based, traceable, and aligned to enterprise principles.
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Leadership and Community
- Technical Leadership: Direct, mentor, or manage Solution Architects (as significant). Guide engineering and delivery teams in adopting integration standards and patterns.
- Architecture Community: Strengthen New Look’s architecture framework, including integration artefacts, governance processes, and collaborative practices.
- Knowledge Sharing: Promote best practices in integration across architects, engineers, product teams, and suppliers. Enable shared learning to refine standards, patterns, and roadmaps.
- Responsible Use of AI Tools: Employ approved AI tools to enrich analysis, design reviews, documentation, and decision-making. Verify AI outputs rigorously before application in design or communication.
- AI-Integrated Systems: Evaluate the integration implications of AI systems, including secure API exposure, data movement, orchestration, monitoring, security, resilience, and supportability. Submitt integration of AI services through approved enterprise patterns and governance routes.
Who You Are
To thrive in this role, you’ll bring a blend of expertise, leadership, and strategic thinking. Here’s what success looks like:
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in a technical field, e.g., computer science, IT, or relevant engineering—or equivalent practical experience. Degrees or specialist certifications (such as TOGAF, Azure, integration, cloud, or architecture certs) are preferred but not mandatory.
- Experience: 10–12+ years in architecture, integration design, or technology delivery, with a focus on enterprise integration.
- Integration Architecture: Proven ability to design secure, scalable, and loosely coupled integration architectures across cloud, SaaS, on-premise, and legacy systems.
- Technical Pracices:
- API Design: Deep familiarity with API security, versioning, lifecycle management, developer experience, and platforms like Azure API Management, Apigee, and MuleSoft.
- Event & Messaging: Robust understanding of event-driven architecture, queues, pub/sub, schema design, and message reliability.
- Integration Patterns: Hands-on experience applying patterns for APIs, events, messaging, batch, file exchange, and orchestration.
- Platforms: Expertise with Azure Integration Service, Service Bus, Event Hub, SAP CPI, Boomi, MuleSoft, etc.
- Cloud Integration: Experience with cloud-native and hybrid architectures across Azure, SaaS, and enterprise systems.
- Risk Management: Strong grasp of security, encryption, disaster recovery (DR), business continuity (BC), and observability.
- Continuous Learning: Architecture Colleges: Experience with architecture frameworks, modelling techniques (C4, UML, ArchiMate), and systems behaviour.
- AI Awareness: Insight into AI system integration requirements, including secure and compliant data exposure, observability, and operational support.
- Culture and Execution:
- Agile & DevOps: Clear understanding of agile methodologies, programme delivery, and architecture governance.
- Analytical Skills: Ability to distil complex integration challenges into practical solutions with evidence-driven recommendations.
- Communication: Strong technical and stakeholder communication to articulate decisions to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Influence: Savvy to navigate political landscapes effectively, aligning integration roadmaps with both strategic needs and day-to-day priorities.
- AI Literacy: Capability to use AI tools responsibly and assess the implications of AI integration holistically.
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What’s in it for You
We reward ambition and recognise hard work. As part of our team, you’ll access:
Work-Life Balance & Wellbeing
- 40% staff discount on fashion purchases and friends & family discounts for our stores.
- Our reward platform, offering external purchase discounts and offers.
- Private pension scheme for long-term financial security.
- Profit-related bonus scheme to share in New Look’s successes.
Health, Life, and Future Security
- Option to inline the private medical scheme for you and your family.
- Virtual GP access, allowing you to consult a doctor at your convenience.
- From day one, our life assurance policy ensures you’re protected as our employee.
- Enhanced maternity, lordship, and adoption leave (e.g., extended support).
- Buy more holiday scheme, letting you earn extra paid leave.
Miscellaneous Benefits
- Payment hub for commuting interest-free loans.
- Cycle2Work scheme for environmentally friendly, cost-effective transport.
- Paid birthday day off, so you can celebrate in peace.
- Season ticket loans to ease work travel costs.
Why Choose New Look?
Inclusion, sustainability, and care for our people underpin our vision. Here’s why we’re special:
We prioritise purpose and cultural richness.
- Your growth matters. Training and mentorship are embedded to help you realise your goals.
- As a flexible employer, our workforce thrives on variety—discussing customised work patterns is a priority for mutually beneficial fit.
If commitment and collaboration drive you, and you want to make fashion a force for good, we’d love to hear from you.
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