Overview
Grow with Riverford – take the next step in your personal and professional journey with training tailored to help you grow and achieve your goals. As our Solution Architect you’ll shape Riverford’s future and help deliver our multi‑year digital transformation by working across business and technical teams to design and implement scalable, secure, and cost‑effective solutions that align with our strategic goals. This role will guide the integration of critical enterprise systems while maintaining best practice in architecture, security, and compliance.
Responsibilities
- Shape and deliver Riverford’s digital transformation initiatives.
- Design and implement scalable, secure, and cost‑effective solutions aligned with strategic goals.
- Ensure seamless integration between critical enterprise systems and maintain best practice in architecture, security, and compliance.
- Align technology solutions with business objectives and guide teams through change.
- Promote collaboration and shared purpose across diverse teams.
- Facilitate smooth transitions and empower teams to adopt new systems and processes.
- Communicate complex concepts clearly to Board‑level stakeholders and translate them into actionable insights.
Qualifications
- Successful track record as a Solution Architect (or similar) within major technology transformations, ideally in a complex eCommerce/retail environment.
- Proven experience from selection to implementation of ERP, with in‑depth knowledge of IFS Cloud and ideally one other major platform such as SAP, Oracle, Aptean, Epicor, Infor, or Microsoft Dynamics.
- Extensive experience designing and implementing bespoke in‑house integration layers and middleware to ensure seamless system interoperability.
- Expertise in cloud architectures (AWS, Azure, GCP), microservices, APIs, and integration patterns.
- Deep understanding of data architecture, data modelling, data lakes, and ETL processes.
- Thorough understanding of data security, governance, compliance (GDPR, CCPA), and best practices for enterprise data management.
- Experience with enterprise architecture frameworks such as TOGAF, Zachman, or similar.
- Relevant certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect, TOGAF, Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect) are a plus. Scrum/Agile expertise is advantageous.
Benefits
- 33 days holiday (pro rata, including bank holidays).
- Ethical and generous company pension scheme.
- Annual profit share – 10% of all profits split equally among co‑owners.
- Heavily discounted organic breakfasts and lunches.
- Free organic fruit and veg to take home and free parking.
Compensation
Salary: Circa £90,000 per annum d.o.e
Location & Hours
This role can be remote with a requirement to be on‑site when needed (typically 3–5 days/month), or based at Wash Farm, Buckfastleigh, Devon, TQ11 0JU.
Hours: 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday.
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