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Solutions Architect (Forecasting, Allocation & Replenishment)
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Location: Reading or Dublin – hybrid (2 days a week)
Travel: Occasional travel between sites
Salary & Package: Competitive
A global retail organisation is seeking an experienced Solution Architect – Forecasting, Allocation & Replenishment to join its Technology Architecture function. This is a permanent role within a growing architecture practice, supporting large-scale transformation across retail, supply chain, and planning systems.
This position will play a key role in shaping a modern, ML/AI-enabled retail ordering platform, guiding solution design, and ensuring architectural integrity across complex, high-volume enterprise environments.
What You’ll Do
- Design end-to-end enterprise solutions across processes, applications, data, integration, technology, service, and security
- Create and review solution blueprints and integration/security documentation
- Analyse requirements, identify gaps, and shape architectures to meet functional and non-functional needs
- Define as-is, to-be, and transition architectures, securing alignment with stakeholders
- Present solution designs to the Design Authority for approval
- Oversee low-level design activities and collaborate with specialist architects and systems integrators
- Resolve design issues, manage change impacts, and ensure architectural decisions are understood
- Ensure solution delivery aligns with programme plans, testing phases, and cutover timelines
- Support environment provisioning and maintain solution quality throughout development
- Maintain architecture documentation and update baseline architecture at go-live
- Work closely with business partners, SMEs, delivery teams, and service teams to ensure smooth implementation and transition to support
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What You’ll Bring
- Demonstrable experience with inventory planning and forecasting platforms
- Strong communication skills with excellent documentation and diagramming capability
- Proven experience designing solutions in high-volume retail environments (fashion/general merchandise ideal)
- Experience with forecasting, allocation, and replenishment systems
- Familiarity with retail supply chain and planning platforms
- Experience working on large-scale IT transformation programmes
- Solid understanding of the systems development lifecycle
- Experience with cloud applications and Retail ERP (Oracle Retail preferred)
- Ability to analyse complex, interconnected systems and produce simplified architectural models
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Successful Candidates Will Have
- 7+ years in IT engineering/design within large multinational organisations
- 5+ years in solution architecture
- Broad understanding of major IT disciplines and software development practices
- Experience integrating applications in high-volume environments (Azure Integration Services a plus)
- Strong stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to influence without authority
- A proactive, curious, self-starter mindset with a passion for continuous improvement
- Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate comfortably with senior leaders, product owners, and delivery teams
- Experience working in retail or other fast-paced consumer environments
- Experience developing solutions aligned to an overarching architecture strategy
- Ability to provide leadership and guidance to peers and junior team members
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