Job Description

Hybrid requirements: This role has flexible working patterns.
Are you a passionate and collaborative technology leader who loves solving complex problems and shaping the bigger picture? Do you have a knack for bringing people on board with a vision, guiding teams with confidence, and making technology work for real business challenges? If so, you might just be the perfect fit for our Head of Architecture role.
We're on the lookout for a forward-thinking individual to lead our architectural practice, shape our technology strategy, and guide our teams through an exciting period of change. You'll have a big voice at the leadership table, defining and championing architectural principles that will set the foundations for our future success.
At Dunelm, we don't look for culture fit--we look for culture add. We're building a team that brings different experiences, perspectives, and ideas to the table.
If this role sounds like home to you, we'd love to hear from you.

What you'll be doing

Leading the way - Represent architecture at the highest levels, influencing strategic decisions and making sure our technology aligns with our business goals. Creating the blueprint - Define and maintain our architectural assets, ensuring they stay relevant, accessible, and meaningful. Mapping out the journey - Develop and document our current, transition, and future enterprise architectures, providing clear roadmaps for change. Bringing clarity to complexity - Use Archimate (or similar modelling tools) to create enterprise architecture models that give a bird's-eye view of our technology landscape. Championing good practices - Establish forums, foster collaboration, and ensure our architectural standards are clear and consistent. Spreading the word - Be a champion for architecture, mentoring others and sharing knowledge across the organisation. Keeping us ahead of the curve - Stay on top of emerging technologies and trends, helping us make smart, forward-thinking decisions. Solving the tricky stuff - Provide expert guidance to teams tackling complex architectural challenges, ensuring solutions align with good practices. Making things better - Continuously improve our architectural processes, making them more efficient, effective, and adaptable.
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Life at
Dunelm
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Culture overview
We're here to help our customers create the joy of feeling truly at home. Join us and you'll find our caring and inclusive culture makes this a place you'll feel right at home too.
Learn
Wherever you work with us and in whatever role, you'll have every opportunity to keep on learning and keep on growing.
Thrive
We'll take care of you, and make sure your everyday needs are met, so you can focus on doing a great job and being the best version of you.
Belong
We embrace diversity in all its forms. We'll celebrate the individual you are and value the unique contribution you bring.
Colleague Networks
All of our colleagues have the opportunity to be part of our four colleague networks. These are Disability & Neurodiversity, LGBTQ+, Gender Equality and Ethnicity & Race. Each network has co-chairs and an exec sponsor who work closely with us to ensure that we are a workplace where everyone feels supported, celebrated, valued and heard.
A chance to give something back
We're serious about our role in society. Each of our stores is partnered with a local charity and has its own community Facebook page. And we offer our Pausa Cafes for free to local community groups. We're also proud partners of the mental health charities, Mind (UK and Wales), SAMH (Scotland) and Inspire (Northern Ireland). And each year, we'll give you a day's paid leave to support a charity that matters to you.
Work your way
We have adapted our ways of working to make sure everyone can feel at home wherever they work. For many colleagues at our Head Office in Leicester and our Central London hub that now includes working on a hybrid basis, combining days in the office with time spent working at home or elsewhere across the business.
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Employee benefits
Bonus Scheme
Childcare Vouchers
Flexible Working
Free Parking
Laptop
Learning Allowance
Life Insurance
Pension
Private Healthcare
Share Options
Wellbeing Programme
Office vibe
BIRTHDAY OFF
CITY CENTRE
HACKATHONS
OFFICE DOG
OPEN PLAN
SOCIAL EVENTS
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Tech at
Dunelm
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Leadership
John Gahagan
Chief Technology and Information Officer
Tech overview
Our Tech, Digital and Data teams are transforming literally every aspect of our business - from the way we manage and make use of our data, to the relationships we share with our customers. Already, their impact has been felt across the business, and indeed by our customers. But this is just the start and we know there are bigger opportunities ahead.
Check out our tech blog for tales behind our talented teams: https://engineering.dunelm.com/

Keep on growing
Join us on the tech side and you'll have access to a huge array of learning and development opportunities, including a variety of internally created workshops and externally accredited courses. We also have a substantial tech-specific budget to fund e-Learning licenses, conference visits, resources, and qualifications, plus dedicated mentors, well-being buddies and a wide range of network groups to support you as you progress.

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Engineering principles
AGILE PROCESS
CODE REVIEWS
COMMUNICATION AND COLLABORATION
CONTINUOUS DELIVERY
CONTINUOUS DEVELOPMENT
CONTINUOUS INTEGRATION
INFRASTRUCTURE AS CODE
MENTORING
MICRO SERVICES
PAIR PROGRAMMING
SCRUM
TEST DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT
UNIT TESTING
Company tech stack
JavaScript


AWS Lambda


GraphQL


React


TypeScript


Jest


Node.js


SQL


Python


Java