Principal Solutions Architect
Role details
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Job description
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Architecture and governance
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Responsibilities: Define target architecture, standards and patterns; ensure decisions are captured via ADRs; steward security, privacy and compliance guardrails
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Accountabilities: Architectural integrity, reduced complexity over time, safe migration with controlled risk, clear decision trail
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Delivery enablement
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Responsibilities: Enable parallel team delivery through well-designed interfaces and migration patterns; unblock teams with timely guidance and reviews
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Accountabilities: On-time cross-team delivery of strategic outcomes; fewer blockers; consistent adherence to standards
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Developer experience and reliability
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Responsibilities: Partner with Platform to uplift CI/CD, observability, SLOs and incident learning; advocate for fitness functions and paved roads
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Accountabilities: Improved flow and stability metrics; faster, safer releases; measurable DX improvements
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People leadership
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Responsibilities: Mentor Staff/Senior engineers; run architecture reviews and forums; translate architecture into business impact for executives
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Requirements
- Proven experience leading large-scale platform or product migrations across multiple teams
- Deep eCommerce or high-volume transactional systems experience (checkout, payments, order management, catalog)
- Expert in domain-driven design, API design, and microservices/event-driven architecture
- Strong breadth: frontend architecture (Next.js, SSR/SSG, CDN/edge) and backend (Node/Java microservices)
- Cloud-native on AWS; comfortable defining requirements and guardrails for platform teams
- Influences without authority; mentors Staff and Senior engineers, raises the bar across org
About You *
- You are a seasoned architect and product-minded technologist who leads through influence across multiple teams
- You've led large, multi-quarter platform migrations or consolidations, and you balance pragmatism with long-term architectural clarity
- You are excellent at communication up, down and across, and you turn ambiguity into clear direction
Benefits & conditions
MOO's the kind of workplace where you can really be yourself. Dye your hair purple. Hit the sofa with your laptop. Whatever helps you feel comfortable and happy at work. We want to help you grow in your career and set you up for success - while also recognising the importance of a healthy work/life balance.
That's why we offer 25 days holiday rising by one day for each year here (for 5 years), a matched pension scheme, and paid parental leave. We'll offer you private healthcare, life insurance, a season ticket loan, and a cycle to work scheme. We also offer flexible work schedules with hybrid and remote working for certain roles as well as a Work From Anywhere program. Diversity Statement
We are working hard to create a representative, inclusive and super-friendly team, because we know that different experiences, perspectives and backgrounds make for a better workplace. And that creates a better experience for our customers. MOO doesn't discriminate on the basis of race, colour, religion or belief, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, marital status, disability or any other protected class.
As a design and technology company we have a desire and a responsibility to build a business that represents the world around us. So we strive to create a values-driven, purposeful and highly empowered organisation that we are all proud to work for. And we are committed to continuous investment in building an open and inclusive environment, welcoming a diverse audience of candidates who see themselves working and thriving at MOO. Therefore, we'd like to invite you to complete this optional survey to help us evaluate our inclusion and diversity efforts. Completing this form is entirely voluntary and if you decide not to it won't in any way affect your job application. We keep the information separate from your application and it is kept secure and confidential, it is only used to better our inclusion and diversity efforts.By submitting this information, you consent to MOO's processing of it for these purposes., Principal Cyber Security Architect - SC Cleared Want to make an application Make sure your CV is up to date, then read the following job specs carefully before applying. Permanent / Fixed Term Contract (12 months) 2-3 days a month in Central London Up to £105k depending...
