dunnhumby
Strategic Solutions Architect (Principal)
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Dunnhumby Overview
dunnhumby is the global leader in Customer Data Science, partnering with the world’s most ambitious retailers and brands to put the customer at the heart of every decision. We combine deep insight, advanced technology, and close collaboration to help our clients grow, innovate, and deliver measurable value for their customers.
dunnhumby employs nearly 2,500 experts in offices throughout Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas working for transformative, iconic brands such as Tesco, Coca-Cola, Nestlé, Unilever, and Metro.
Dunnhumby Network Alliance
dna (dunnhumby Network Alliance) is an open, collaborative Retail and Commerce Media service designed to unify a fragmented market and unlock growth for brands, agencies, and retailers. Operating as a neutral layer across multiple retail partners, DNA brings together audiences, inventory, and intelligence enabling a single, simplified point of entry to cross-retailer media at scale. Built in partnership with Kevel and powered by dunnhumby’s data and expertise, DNA connects brand and performance across the full customer journey, delivering more transparent, consistent, and effective outcomes in an increasingly complex media landscape.
The Role
Own the architecture that makes dna work in the real world, across dunnhumby, Kevel, retailers, and publishers. This is enterprise architecture and customer-facing solutioning in a single seat: set the patterns, then prove them on live opportunities and partner integrations.
What You'll Be Doing
- Own dna's target-state architecture across platform, data, integration, and security, and the guardrails that keep it coherent as partners are added.
- Turn business, product, and partner requirements into end-to-end solution designs covering integration patterns, data flows, deployment models, and non-functional requirements.
- Lead the technical side of retailer and publisher onboarding, from discovery through to a working integration, so each new partner lands faster than the last.
- Define reusable platform patterns that reduce bespoke, client-specific builds and improve scalability, consistency, and cost-to-serve.
- Act as the senior technical voice in partner and client conversations, including with Kevel, shaping credible options and explaining the trade-offs behind them.
- Feed delivery reality back into product and engineering, spotting where recurring needs should be productised, standardised, or simplified.
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What You'll Bring
- Strong enterprise, solution, or platform architecture background across cloud, data, and integration environments.
- AdTech and MarTech fluency: ad servers, SSPs, and DSPs, identity, bidding, event pipelines, tagging, and closed-loop measurement.
- Proven experience integrating third-party platforms and partner ecosystems at scale, including API and data-contract design.
- Experience with clean rooms, privacy-enhancing technologies, and data collaboration across organizational boundaries.
- Customer-facing solutioning, technical pre-sales, or proof-of-concept experience, with strong communication to commercial and leadership audiences.
- The judgement to balance long-term architectural intent with pace, shipping practical designs under real delivery constraints.
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What You Can Expect From Us
We won’t just meet your expectations. We’ll defy them. So you’ll enjoy the comprehensive rewards package you’d expect from a leading technology company. But also, a degree of personal flexibility you might not expect. Plus, thoughtful perks, like flexible working hours and your birthday off.
You’ll also benefit from an investment in cutting-edge technology that reflects our global ambition. But with a nimble, small-business feel that gives you the freedom to play, experiment, and learn.
And we don’t just talk about diversity and inclusion. We live it every day – with thriving networks including dh Gender Equality Network, dh Proud, dh Family, dh One, dh Enabled, and dh Thrive as the living proof. We want everyone to have the opportunity to shine and perform at your best throughout our recruitment process. Please let us know how we can make this process work best for you.
Our Approach to Flexible Working
At dunnhumby, we value and respect difference and are committed to building an inclusive culture by creating an environment where you can balance a successful career with your commitments and interests outside of work.
We believe that you will do your best at work if you have a work/life balance. Some roles lend themselves to flexible options more than others, so if this is important to you, please raise this with your recruiter, as we are open to discussing agile working opportunities during the hiring process.
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