Solutions Architect

What you’ll do  

Your key accountabilities will include: 

Provide thought leadership, interacting with various M&S teams (., platform product owners, analytics team leads, data science team, business stakeholders, Digital & Data leadership team, architects, Ops engineers, software engineers) to understand data use cases and requirements, and proposing design patterns and solution designs Responsible for managing the technical design for components of the BEAM platform ensuring that scalability, high availability, fault tolerance, and elasticity are considered.  Contribute to POCs and RFPs to fairly assess and select suitable tools to enhance the BEAM platform.  Own the architecture backlog and progress discussions relating to design decisions, best practice principles, new features/patterns/capabilities.  Collaborate with our strategic partners, inputting into future roadmaps for data technology and tools. 

Who you are

Your skills and experience will include:

Experience of designing secure, scalable, performant, functionally-rich data solutions in a complex environment and experience of data warehouse, data lake and lake house solutions.  Understanding of Analytics and Reporting, Data Engineering and Data Governance best practices and technologies.  Understanding of enterprise security requirements and techniques along with enterprise application development and software engineering  Creating Key Design Principles (KDPs) and Key Design Decisions (KDDs) Presenting technology proposals (including costs/benefits) to non-technical senior stakeholders with the ability to gather, assimilate and document details of a complex data and technology estate 

What’s in it for you 

Being a part of M&S is exactly that – playing your part to bring the magic of M&S to our customers every day. We’re an inclusive, dynamic, exciting, and ever evolving business built on doing the right thing and bringing exceptional quality, value, service to every customer, whenever, wherever and however they want to shop with us.

Here are some of the benefits we offer that make working for M&S just that little bit more special…

20% colleague discount across all M&S products and many of our third-party brands for you and a member of your household. Competitive holiday entitlement with the potential to buy extra holiday days! Discretionary bonus schemes awarded based on how you achieve your personal objectives and our performance as a business. A generous Defined Contribution Pension Scheme and Life Assurance. A dedicated welcome to our teams with a tailored induction and a wide range of training programmes to develop your skills. Amazing perks and discounts via our M&S Choices portal to maximise your financial and personal wellbeing. Industry-leading parental, adoption and neonatal policies, providing support and flexibility for your family. Access to a fantastic range of wellbeing support for all colleagues including access to our 24/7 Virtual GP and PAM Assist to support you and your family. A charity volunteer day to support a charity or cause you're passionate about through a dedicated day away from work.

Everyone’s welcome 

M&S is ready to push boundaries to lead the retail industry into a greener, speedier, more inspiring digital era. That’s why we’re revolutionising how we work and offering our most exciting opportunities yet. There’s never been a better time to be part of our team. Marks & Spencer aims to be an inclusive organisation, trusted and admired by our colleagues, customers and suppliers. Join us and make an immediate impact.

We’re an in-person business and have core collaboration days in our Support Centre each week. For most teams, this is 3 working days where we come together to collaborate, innovate, and serve our customers brilliantly.

We are committed to an active Inclusion, Diversity and Equal Opportunities Policy, which starts with our recruitment and selection process, and we are happy to talk flexible working.

If you consider yourself to require reasonable adjustments to any part of our recruitment process, we invite you to share those requirements with us when completing your application. We will make every effort to ensure your needs are met to provide a fair and transparent process of assessment.

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