Solution Architect at HMGroup

WHAT YOU’LL DO As Solution Architect – Product Sourcing, you are responsible for the solution architecture supporting several products across the area with focus on Sourcing, Component and Data and AI capabilities. The role combines hands-on architectural work with advisory responsibility. You both design solutions and act as a trusted advisor, guiding teams and sftakeholders toward the target architecture while ensuring alignment with enterprise standards, security, and data governance.  Key Responsibilities As a Solution Architect within Product Sourcing, you will both perform and advise across the solution lifecycle: • Design and advise on solution architecture aligned with area strategy, business goals, and regulatory requirements.  • Translate business and technical needs into clear architectural designs and decision support for teams and stakeholders.  • Design integrations and advise on best architectural choices between solutions. • Analyse existing solutions, identify gaps, risks, and technical debt, and both drive and recommend improvements toward the target state. • Apply holistic thinking to identify interdependencies across teams and initiatives.  • Create and maintain solution roadmaps and transition architectures, and guide teams in their implementation.  • Provide architectural guidance, coaching, and advisory support to delivery teams and stakeholders.  • Support in the creation and maintenance of the area’s data models needed to enable strategic initiatives across the different domains • Contribute to architecture standards, patterns, and best practices within the Architecture Community.  • Support and advise in technology evaluation and selection to ensure alignment with enterprise architecture. WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH​ You work closely with Area Business Manager, Area Tech Manager, Engineering Managers and the rest of Business and Tech colleagues to ensure that we do the right things while doing things right.  You are part of a broader Solution Architect community and contribute to shared standards, patterns, and ways of working.  WHO YOU ARE You are a collaborative and structured architect who can bridge business and technology. You are comfortable in complex, global environments and can explain architecture in a clear and pragmatic way. You bring:  • 10+ years of experience designing and implementing large-scale systems. • Experience documenting and communicating architecture across business, process, information, application, and technology perspectives. • Ability to translate complex business flows into clear solution designs and architecture artefacts.  • Proven experience in solution architecture within cloud-native and microservices environments. • Advanced understanding of integration technologies such as Kafka, Solace, and Azure API Management. • Strong stakeholder management and communication skills with the ability to explain complex concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. • Knowledge of security, privacy, and compliance-by-design principles. • Experience on AI solutions architecture and deployment is an advantage. • Experience working across federated, multi-team environments in a scaled agile setup. • Demonstrated ability to drive cost-conscious design decisions across infrastructure, data, and integration layers. • Strong judgment in balancing technical ambition with delivery velocity and resource constraints. • Experience from retail, ecommerce, or global organizations is an advantage.  • Strong understanding of capability modelling and domain-driven design (DDD) is an advantage.Our values guide how we work. In this role, we especially value:  • Holistic thinking – seeing the bigger picture across business and technology.  • Ownership and commitment – taking responsibility for architecture quality.  • Curiosity – interest in both finance and technology, and continuous learning.  • Communication – explaining complex topics in a clear and inclusive way.  • Collaboration – working closely with business, tech, and partners.And people who are • Passionate about problem-solving and building scalable applications. • Excited about working in a fast-paced, Agile environment. • Open to learning and adapting to new technologies and best practices. • Team players with strong collaboration and communication skills.WHO WE ARE H&M is a global company of strong fashion brands and ventures. Our goal is to prove that there is no compromise between exceptional design, affordable prices, and sustainable solutions. We want to liberate fashion for the many, and our customers are at the heart of every decision we make. We are made up of thousands of passionate and talented colleagues united by our shared culture and values. Together, we want to use our power, our scale, and our knowledge to push the fashion industry towards a more inclusive and sustainable future. ​ Help us re-imagine fashion and together we will re-shape our industry. Learn more about H&M here. WHY YOU’LL LOVE WORKING HERE At H&M, we are proud to be a vibrant and welcoming company. We offer our employees attractive benefits with extensive development opportunities around the globe. ​ We offer all our employees at H&M attractive benefits with extensive development opportunities around the globe. All our employees receive a staff discount card, usable on all our H&M brands in stores and online. Brands covered by the discount are H&M (Beauty and Move included), COS, Weekday, Monki, H&M HOME, & Other Stories, ARKET, Afound. In addition to our staff discount, all our employees are included in our H&M Incentive Program – HIP. You can read more about our H&M Incentive Program here. In addition to our global benefits, all our local markets offer different competitive perks and benefits. Please note that they may differ between employment types and countries. JOIN US Our uniqueness comes from a combination of many things – our inclusive and collaborative culture, our strong values, and opportunities for growth. But most of all, it’s our people who make us who we are.​ Take the next step in your career together with us. The journey starts here.​   *We are committed to a recruitment process that is fair, equitable, and based on competency. We therefore kindly ask you to not attach a cover letter in your application