Solutions Architect

Farrow & Ball - Solutions Architect - Wimborne

We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic individual to join our team in Wimborne. We are offering this position on a full time, permanent position.

Farrow & Ball is a luxury British lifestyle brand that prides itself in creating richly pigmented paint and handcrafted wallpaper, using print methods dating back 300 years and the finest quality ingredients.

The unique Farrow & Ball look transforms modern and traditional homes, large and small, inside and out. Established in Dorset in 1946, we have grown over the last 80 years and now proudly have 60 showrooms worldwide with a global network of stockists.

The key to our success is the people behind the paint: from the team handcrafting each tin to showroom staff to support functions, our shared passion ensures customers have a positive, engaging experience at every stage of their journey with us.

The Solutions Architect is responsible for designing solution architecture, governing, and assuring end-to-end technology solutions that enable business objectives and deliver measurable value. Acting as the design authority bridges between business stakeholders and technical delivery teams, the Solutions Architect translates business requirements into scalable, secure, maintainable, and cost-effective solution architectures.

The role provides architectural leadership across business applications, data, integrations, cloud services, and digital platforms, ensuring solutions align with enterprise architecture principles, technology standards, and strategic objectives. The Solutions Architect works closely with Business Analysts, Business Stakeholders, Project Managers, Solution Delivery teams, and third-party partners to ensure successful solution delivery from concept through implementation.

What we expect from you

Key Responsibilities

1. Solution Design & Architecture

• Design end-to-end solution architectures that address business needs and strategic objectives.
• Produce architectural artefacts including solution designs, architecture diagrams, integration designs, data flows, and technical specifications.
• Define integration approaches between enterprise applications, cloud services, and third-party platforms, ensuring data architecture supports business reporting, analytics, and operational requirements.
• Ensure solutions are aligned to strategic and enterprise architecture principles and are scalable, secure, resilient, maintainable, and aligned to enterprise standards.
• Evaluate solution options and provide recommendations based on business value, risk, cost, and technical fit.
• Define architecture patterns, standards, and best practices for technology solutions.
• Ensure solution designs consider operational support, monitoring, disaster recovery, and business continuity requirements.
• Partner with business analysts and business stakeholders to understand processes, challenges, and opportunities.

1. Solution Design & Delivery

• Work alongside Solution Architects, Developers, Integration Engineers, Data Teams, and Vendors to define solutions.
• Provide leadership during solution assessment and option evaluation activities.
• Support estimation, planning, budgeting, and resource prioritisation.
• Review solution designs to ensure business requirements have been fully addressed and align with architectural principles, security standards, and business objectives.

1. Project & Change Support

• Support digital transformation projects from concept through to implementation, acting as Lead Business Analyst across complex programmes and portfolios.

1. Stakeholder Management

• Build strong working relationships across all business functions.

Key Attributes

• Experience delivering enterprise technology projects with proven business process modelling and improvement expertise.
• Demonstrated experience leading analysis activities within complex programmes.
• Experience supporting digital transformation programmes and working within Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid delivery models.
• ERP implementation or enhancement experience (IFS, SAP, Oracle, Dynamics).
• Exposure to business architecture or enterprise architecture frameworks.

What you can expect from us

• 25 days' annual leave (increasing with length of service) plus bank holidays
• Annual salary reviews, based on individual performance
• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity pay
• Generous staff discount on F&B products
• Access to our retail discounts platform
• Employee Assistance Programme with 24/7 support
• Health Cash Plan
• Company Sick Pay
• Group Pension Scheme, matched by F&B
• Life Assurance
• Refer a Friend scheme
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Season Ticket Loans for travel

At Farrow & Ball we are committed to encouraging equality, diversity and inclusion among our people, with an aim to be truly representative of all sections of society and our customers. Applicants will be considered for employment based only on skills/experience and never based off of race, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or family status, including pregnancy.