Solutions Architect - Retail Technology

Location: Liverpool, England, United Kingdom; flexible hybrid working model.

Benefits include a £1000 flexible benefits allowance, 30 days holiday plus bank holidays, bonus potential, and matched pension contributions up to 6%.

Company

hirify.global operates the Very digital retail platform, supporting millions of customers through technology across the end-to-end retail operation.

What you will do

• Design end-to-end solutions aligned with business requirements, technology strategy, and architectural standards.
• Shape scalable, secure, and resilient solutions across a modern cloud-based ecosystem.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, and Delivery teams on technology approaches and delivery.
• Provide architectural guidance from discovery through implementation and contribute to governance.
• Manage technical risks, dependencies, and architectural considerations across platforms and products.
• Evaluate technologies, communicate recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders, and support cloud-native engineering evolution.

Requirements

• Experience designing and delivering technology solutions in complex enterprise environments.
• Strong understanding of modern software architecture, cloud-native technologies, and distributed systems.
• Experience working with engineering teams to define solution designs and delivery approaches.
• Ability to balance business requirements, technical constraints, and delivery objectives.
• Strong communication, stakeholder management, problem-solving, and collaborative influencing skills.
• Experience in Agile delivery environments and modern product organisations.
• Experience with Java, Amazon Web Services (AWS), cloud-native architecture, distributed systems, API-led integration, and modern engineering practices.

Nice to have

• Experience with Spring Boot, Oracle Database, Terraform, React, AWS API Gateway, or AWS RDS.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible hybrid working model and inclusive working environment.
• £1000 flexible benefits allowance, 30 days holiday plus bank holidays, and LinkedIn Learning access.
• Performance- and business-related bonus potential, Very.co.uk discount of up to 25%, and matched pension contributions up to 6%.
• Reasonable adjustments are available throughout the recruitment process.

Hiring process

• Successful candidates complete credit, CIFAS, Right to Work, and, where required, DBS checks; relevant disclosures must be provided before checks begin.
• Two interview stages: a 30-minute Teams call with a Lead Architect, followed by a one-hour face-to-face interview with the hiring team, including competency questions and a technical exercise.