Solutions Architect | A Specialist Ecommerce Studio | Permanent | London, Hybrid (2 days in office)

Overview

In this role you lead the technical direction for a client pod within a London-based headless ecommerce studio. You shape solutions with strategy and design, guide delivery, and stay close to the code while engaging directly with clients. You balance hands-on development with team leadership, ensuring scalable, high-quality outcomes. This position offers practical client-facing tech leadership in a collaborative, engineering-driven environment that values problem-solving over tool-driven hype.

Pay / Benefits

• 27 days holiday plus bank holidays
• flexible working
• enhanced maternity and paternity leave
• annual performance review

Responsibilities

• Define and shape the technical solution with strategy and design collaboration
• Manage client conversations about approaches, timelines, and budgets
• Own planning and delivery: backlog, roadmap, estimations, sprints, risks
• Lead one to four engineers per project: code reviews, mentoring, quality standards
• Contribute hands-on when needed and maintain awareness of code feasibility
• Oversee quality and technical debt: reviews, testing, monitoring, improvements

Key requirements

• 5+ years in a similar role with agency experience
• Headless ecommerce experience essential, Shopify Plus in headless setups
• Fluent in modern JavaScript (vanilla, React, Vue, Svelte)
• Comfort with agile delivery, CI/CD, and consuming REST APIs
• Strong back-end grounding; client-facing technical leadership
• AI experience or willingness to start using AI in engineering

• strong client-facing communication
• clear and pragmatic explanation of trade-offs
• leadership with ability to mentor and set quality benchmarks
• Headless ecommerce with Shopify Plus
• Shopify
• React

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