Overview

We’re Kingfisher, A team made up of over 76,000 passionate people who bring Kingfisher - and all our other brands: B&Q, Screwfix, Brico Depot, Castorama and Koctas - to life. That’s right, we’re big, but we have ambitions to become even bigger and even better. We want to become the leading home improvement company and grow the largest community of home improvers in the world. And that’s where you come in.

At Kingfisher our customers come from all walks of life, and so do we. We want to ensure that all colleagues, future colleagues, and applicants to Kingfisher are treated equally regardless of age, gender, marital or civil partnership status, colour, ethnic or national origin, culture, religious belief, philosophical belief, political opinion, disability, gender identity, gender expression or sexual orientation.

We are open to flexible and agile working, both of hours and location. Therefore, we offer colleagues a blend of working from home and our offices, located in London, Southampton & Yeovil. Talk to us about how we can best support you!

The Head of Solution Architecture plays a critical role in ensuring the continuity of architecture and alignment with our Banners’ technology direction to hold the customer at the heart of everything we do. You’ll establish and embed architectural standards and tooling, ensuring consistency and quality in solution design and documentation.
What’s the job?

• Define and promote the value of Solution Architecture, leading communication and education efforts to embed its purpose, principles, and impact across the organisation.
• Establish and embed architectural standards and tooling, ensuring consistency and quality in solution design and documentation.
• Drive agile and effective decision-making, aligning solution architecture with business and technology strategy to enable fast, informed choices.
• Lead and contribute to governance forums, such as design councils and architecture boards, promoting best practices, consistency, and architectural integrity across initiatives.
• Build and develop a high-performing Solution Architecture team, recruiting critical skills, creating career paths, and fostering collaboration and business impact.
• Ensure strong cross-functional collaboration, working closely with teams across Engineering, Delivery, Infrastructure, Platform and Product to deliver customer-centric solutions.
• Provide strategic and technical leadership, crafting end-to-end solution designs and finding opportunities to evolve technology capabilities and architecture maturity.

What you’ll bring

• Extensive Solution Architecture expertise - experience leading complex solution design across multiple domains, with strong knowledge of architecture principles, patterns, and tooling.
• Proven leadership and team development - ability to build, mentor and grow high-performing architecture teams aligned to business needs and strategic priorities.
• Excels in aligning architecture with operating models, goals, and achievements in business and technology functions.
• Governance and decision-making experience - confident contributing to design councils and architecture forums to ensure consistent, high-quality solutions.
• Collaborative and influential - able to engage and influence senior stakeholders and work effectively across engineering, delivery, and platform teams to drive value.

Be Customer Focused - constantly improving our customers’ experience

• We listen to our customers and colleagues
• We innovate products and experiences to stay ahead

Be Human - leading with purpose, humanity and care

• We do the right thing
• We invest in our people and build great teams

Be Curious - thrive on learning, thinking beyond the obvious

• We focus externally, globally and build the long term
• We experiment and share our learnings

Be Agile - building trust and empowering people to work with agility

• We act with pace, not perfection, role modelling 80/20
• We take risks, fail fast and adapt quickly

Be Inclusive - inspiring diverse teams to achieve together

• We celebrate difference as a strength
• We collaborate, breaking down silos

Be Accountable - owning the plan, delivering results and growth

• We focus on performance outcomes
• We prioritise and simplify for others

At Kingfisher, we value the perspectives that any new team members bring, and we want to hear from you. We encourage you to apply for one of our roles even if you do not feel you meet 100% of the requirements.

In return, we offer an inclusive environment, where what you can achieve is limited only by your imagination! We encourage new ideas, actively support experimentation, and strive to build an environment where everyone can be their best self. Find out more about Diversity & Inclusion at Kingfisher here!

We also offer a competitive benefits package and plenty of opportunities to stretch and grow your career.

Interested? Great, apply now and help us to Power the Possible.

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