Solution Architect

About the role

The Commercial Solution Architect is a hands‑on architecture role within Digital & Technology (D&T), accountable for designing end‑to‑end solution architectures for Commercial capabilities, ensuring solutions are implementable, secure, scalable, and aligned to agreed domain and enterprise standards. Working under the Commercial Domain Architect, the role translates target architecture, standards and guardrails into practical solution designs that delivery teams can build and operate. The role will partner closely with Product Managers/Owners, engineers, data teams and delivery teams to ensure Commercial solutions are consistent with D&T direction - including alignment to Salesforce‑centred Commercial capability and the broader enterprise architecture direction. This role is designed to be materially more technical and delivery‑proximate, providing credible system design leadership and implementation governance, and helping reduce fragmentation through reuse of patterns and shared platforms. Role purpose To design and govern practical, secure and scalable Commercial solution architectures that enable delivery teams to deliver outcomes quickly and consistently, aligned to the Commercial target architecture and enterprise standards. Key accountabilities The Commercial Solution Architect is accountable for: Designing end‑to‑end solution architectures for Commercial initiatives (Sales, Marketing, Trade, Customer Engagement and related capabilities). Ensuring solution designs align to Commercial domain guardrails and enterprise architecture standards. Embedding security, privacy and compliance requirements into solution designs by default. Providing architecture governance and implementation guidance to delivery teams through the full lifecycle (design → build → deploy). Driving reuse of patterns and reduction of localised complexity to support convergence on strategic platforms.