Job Description

Basic information

Location

Bristol, London, Manchester

Business Line

Technology & Transformation

Job Type

Permanent / FTC

Date published

14-Nov-2025

Req #

21312
Job description

Connect to your industry

In Deloitte's Commerce practice, we empower the world's biggest brands to design, build, and seamlessly run next-generation technology platforms. Our expertise spans the entire commerce lifecycle, from strategic advisory and innovative design through to robust implementation and ongoing operational support. We are adept at translating complex human needs into intuitive, seamless digital experiences, fundamentally transforming our clients' go-to-market operations and significantly driving growth across their organisations.
Essentially, we forge powerful partnerships with leading global enterprises, co-creating exceptional commerce experiences that resonate with customers. Our growth culture champions continuous and unwavering customer centricity, ensuring we balance rapid speed to market with uncompromising technical excellence. Joining our team means contributing to impactful transformations at the forefront of digital commerce.

Connect to your opportunity

As an Architect in Deloitte Digital's Commerce offering, you will play a pivotal role in designing and implementing cutting-edge digital commerce solutions for our global clients. You will translate complex business requirements into robust, scalable, and innovative technical architectures, driving the successful delivery of transformative platforms.


We're looking for people who are leaders - natural initiative-takers who bring out the best in others, are brilliant listeners and grow our business without compromising standards, integrity, or culture.

About the role:

You will design, document, and evolve technical architectures for digital front-office and commerce solutions, translating strategic visions into detailed technical blueprints and ensuring alignment with client objectives and industry best practices. You will be a hands-on Solution Architect, with a passion for modern digital customer architectures, responsible for the end-to-end technical design of these platforms, ensuring architectural integrity, performance, and scalability. You will guide the technical implementation of solutions, collaborating closely with development teams, ensuring adherence to architectural standards, and providing expert technical problem-solving throughout the project lifecycle. You will collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams - including product managers, developers, BAs and delivery leads - to ensure technical solutions meet business requirements and are delivered efficiently, fostering an inclusive team culture. You will articulate complex technical solutions in a business-friendly way to senior client stakeholders, explaining architectural decisions, trade-offs, and their impact on project outcomes, including commercial implications. You will guide clients through complex digital transformations, helping them modernise their architectures whilst incrementally delivering value, providing architectural advice and direction to project teams (including leading vendor selection processes). You will ensure solutions adhere to architectural governance, security principles, and technical standards, contributing to the overall quality and resilience of the platforms you design and build. You will identify and mitigate technical risks, proactively addressing potential challenges in design and implementation to ensure smooth project delivery.
You will leverage artificial intelligence in architectural design where appropriate, exploring how AI can enhance digital customer platform capabilities and improve system efficiency, whilst actively seeking to use AI to improve your own architectural processes and ways of working.

Connect to your skills and professional experience

To thrive as an Architect in our Commerce foundry, you will possess a strong blend of technical expertise, architectural design capabilities, and effective communication skills. We are looking for practitioners who can translate vision into tangible technical solutions, guide development teams, and ensure the successful implementation of complex digital commerce platforms.

Your experience should include:

Experience:

Significant experience working on agile software development projects, working as an Architect or adjacent role (e.g. Senior Developer, Technical Lead)

Solution Architecture & Design:

Proven ability to design and document robust, scalable, and complex distributed application architectures for B2C and/or B2B front-office and commerce solutions. Experience with cloud-native architectures is a must.

Commerce Platform Expertise:

Demonstrable experience as a Solutions Architect with leading front-office/commerce platforms aligned with composable principles (e.g., Salesforce Commerce Cloud, commercetools, SAP Commerce Cloud, Adobe Commerce, Shopify Plus, etc). A clear understanding of the role these technologies play in the broader digital customer landscape is essential.

Technical Leadership & Guidance:

Ability to provide technical leadership and guidance to development teams, ensuring adherence to architectural standards, best practices, and effective problem-solving. Experience coaching and supporting multi-location development teams.

Architectural Principles & Methodologies:

Strong understanding of architectural patterns, software development lifecycle (SDLC), and agile development methodologies from an architectural perspective. Ability to bridge the gap between old and new world technology landscapes and chart a path from one to the other, with demonstrable experience of helping clients to modernise complex legacy estates and guiding them on legacy monolith decommissioning.

System Integration & Data Architecture:

Experience in designing complex system integrations and defining data models for broader front-office and commerce ecosystems (e.g., PIM, OMS, CDP, CRM, Marketing Automation).

Performance, Scalability & Security:

Expertise in designing solutions that meet high standards for performance, scalability, and security, including knowledge of security principles and standards.

AI in Architecture:

A practical understanding of how Artificial Intelligence and Generative AI can be integrated into front-office and/or commerce architectures to enhance functionality, improve customer experience, and optimise operations. Demonstrated ability to leverage AI tools and techniques to improve architectural design processes and personal productivity.

Technical Communication & Senior Stakeholder Engagement:

Excellent ability to concisely articulate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences, present architectural designs, and collaborate effectively with client technical teams and project stakeholders. Good knowledge of the digital vendor landscape, including experience engaging with vendor selection processes for digital customer solutions, articulating the technical and commercial rationale for choices.

Problem-Solving & Innovation:

A proactive and analytical approach to solving complex technical challenges, with a focus on designing innovative and practical solutions. A clear view on innovation within our sector and its relevance to our clients.

Continuous Learning & Self-Motivation:

A commitment to staying abreast of emerging technologies, architectural trends, and industry best practices in digital commerce. Self-motivated and driven, constantly seeking to deliver excellent client outcomes.

Connect to your business - Technology and Transformation

Distinctive thinking, deep expertise, innovation and collaborative working. That's what connects us. That's what makes us Deloitte. If you want to help solve some of the biggest tech and transformational challenges around, join us. Together, we'll make an impact that matters.

Customer

Human connections are integral to business. We combine people, ideas and technology to support our clients to build strong connections. For example, through commerce, customer design and sales services.

Personal independence

Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints (e.g., in relation to any financial interests and employment relationships). This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm, and also prohibitions on certain employment relationships (e.g., you are not permitted to hold a secondary employment role with SEC audit clients of the firm whilst being employed by the firm). The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process or you can contact the Independence team upon request.

Connect with your colleagues

"What attracted me to Deloitte were the endless opportunities and the collective experience of other like-minded individuals. Deloitte's clients include many of the world's largest organisations; I wanted to be part of a team that made a difference that I could be proud of."

Dan, T&T
"I get to work on projects that help clients in a sector I feel truly passionate about."

Rhiannon, T&T
"Everyone always says "it's the people," and that's true. Working for a brand you feel proud of feels pretty good too. And you don't have any stress about fitting into a particular stereotype, because there are so many different types of people in Deloitte Digital."

Gillian, T&T

Our hybrid working policy

You'll be based in Manchester with hybrid working.


At Deloitte we understand the importance of balancing your career alongside your home life. That's why we'll support you to work flexibly through our hybrid working policy. Depending on the requirements of your role, you'll have the opportunity to work in your local office, virtual collaboration spaces, client sites and remotely. You'll get the chance to meet face to face when needed, while you collaborate and learn from colleagues, share your experiences, and build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Please check with your recruiter for the specific working requirements that may apply for your role.

Connect to your return to work opportunity

Are you looking to return to the workplace after an extended career break?


For this role we can offer coaching and support designed for returners to refresh your knowledge and skills, and help your transition back into the workplace after a career break of two years or more. If this is relevant for you, just let your recruiter know when you make your application.

Our commitment to you

Making an impact is more than just what we do: it's why we're here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.


We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we're nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we'll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it's only when you're comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.


Your expertise is our capability, so we'll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it's from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you'll learn every day. Through world-class development, you'll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you'll learn how to lead.

Connect to your next step

A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you'll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You'll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you'll never stop growing, whatever your level.


Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careers


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