Job Purpose
- The Lead Solution Architect – Digital defines and maintains the solution architecture for our digital platform. Ensures that solutions meet both business and non-functional requirements, align with enterprise architecture principles, and enable secure, scalable, and sustainable delivery of digital capabilities across all markets and channels, while leading and mentoring a team of Solution Architects.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Own and evolve the end-to-end digital solution architecture, ensuring consistency across Loyalty, Web, Ecommerce and Mobile platform.
- Balance short and long-term platform sustainability.
- Ensure alignment between business strategy, product roadmaps and technology choices, delivering robust end-to-end solution designs for digital capabilities.
- Ensure that proposed solutions: (1) align to enterprise standards, integration principles, and security and data protection practice; (2) are implemented and documented correctly.
- Act in straight collaboration with the Digital POs to shape the roadmap, identify technical enablers and sequencing architectural change.
- Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture to define and enforce principles, standards, and patterns for digital platforms
- Monitor technology trends, vendors and delivery approaches and identify opportunities to modernize or optimize the digital landscape.
- Lead, mentor and develop a pragmatic, business oriented and collaborative team.
Education Requirements
- BSc or MSc in IT, Computer Science, or related field.
Experience Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in IT, with a strong background in solution architecture
- 5+ years of leadership experience in IT, ideally in customer facing platform, in the retail sector
Required Knowledge, Technical, Professional and Soft Skills
Deep understanding of digital technologies, microservices, APIs, integration patterns, and security models.
Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
Ability to balance long-term strategy with short-term delivery priorities.
Strong leadership skills: drives vision, engages teams, develops talent, manages ambiguity, communicates with impact.
Strategic thinking with strong execution orientation, strong collaboration skills, curiosity and continuous learning attitude.
Additional Information
- Hybrid role.
- Occasional travel may be required for workshops or vendor reviews.
About Pepco
Pepco is one of Europe’s fastest-growing retail companies, with thousands of stores and millions of customers visiting us every month. Behind that growth, there’s a team of people who make things happen. We keep things simple, we focus on results, and we support each other to get there. At Pepco, no two days are the same. And that’s exactly how we like it.
Interested? Apply now and be part of building something new in Porto!
