Lead Technical Architect

dentsu Austria

Lead Technical Architect driving enterprise architecture strategy across digital commerce and customer platforms at Dentsu. Focused on scalability and innovation during a period of significant growth.

Posted 5/12/2026full-timeRemote • 🇬🇧 United KingdomSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudERPGoogle Cloud PlatformMicroservices

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Define and own the enterprise architecture strategy for digital commerce, customer platforms and data ecosystems.
Develop a target-state architecture and multi-year technology roadmap aligned to the company’s revenue growth ambitions.
Ensure the technology landscape supports scalability, resilience and performance at significantly increased traffic and transaction volumes.
Establish architectural principles across cloud infrastructure, integration, data platforms, security and composable commerce.
Lead architecture across the full customer and commerce ecosystem.
Ensure the architecture enables: Omnichannel retail experiences, Marketplace and partner integrations, Rapid experimentation and feature delivery, Personalised customer journeys across channels.
Define the data architecture supporting digital, commercial and operational decision making.
Enable a modern data platform supporting: Real-time and batch data processing, Customer data platforms, Advanced analytics and experimentation, AI-driven personalisation and merchandising.
Define the architecture supporting customer relationship management and loyalty programmes.
Drive architecture that supports operational excellence across digital and retail operations.
Act as a trusted advisor to executive leadership on technology strategy.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Extensive experience as an Enterprise Architect or Principal Architect in a large-scale retail, digital or e-commerce environment.
Proven experience designing enterprise technology architectures supporting high-volume digital commerce platforms.
Strong understanding of modern architecture patterns, including Cloud-native architectures, API-first and microservices, Event-driven architectures, Composable commerce ecosystems.
Experience designing architectures across: E-commerce platforms, Data and analytics platforms, CRM and marketing technologies, Loyalty and customer engagement platforms.
Strong understanding of customer data, personalisation and marketing technologies.
Experience integrating digital platforms with ERP, OMS, PIM and supply chain systems.
Desirable Experience leading major retail digital transformation programmes.
Experience with Salesforce Commerce Cloud.
Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure or GCP).
Experience with modern data platforms, CDPs and AI-driven analytics.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Inclusion and Diversity
Flexible working arrangements

ATS Keywords

✓ Tailor your resume

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard Skills & Tools

enterprise architecturedigital commerce architecturecloud-native architectureAPI-first architecturemicroservicesevent-driven architecturedata architecturereal-time data processingadvanced analyticsAI-driven personalisation

Soft Skills

leadershipstrategic planningadvisory skillscommunication