We’re Pentland Brands: a global family business behind some of the world’s most iconic active and lifestyle brands. We bring integrity, energy and ambition to our work, setting high standards and striving to deliver great outcomes without ego.

With over 1,500 team members worldwide, we’re proud of our diverse, inclusive culture where everyone is encouraged to speak up, challenge thinking, create breakthroughs and collaborate openly. Our people are what set us apart, and we’re committed to creating an environment where everyone can thrive.

Reports to: Head of Digital Solutions & Integration

Location: London, Farringdon

Hours: 36.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday (4.30pm finish on a Friday)

The Digital Architect Mission:

We are seeking a highly skilled Digital Architect – Digital Commerce to own and evolve Pentland’s digital commerce architecture across B2B, D2C, and Martech ecosystems.

This role is pivotal in shaping our Shopify-led commerce landscape, guiding the business on technical decision-making, managing and prioritising the digital backlog, and leading delivery in a multi-vendor environment. You will act as a trusted technical authority, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, and aligned to our broader digital strategy.

As part of the Digital Solutions leadership community, you will work closely with business stakeholders, third-party integrators, and internal technology teams to deliver robust, future-ready commerce capabilities.

How you'll drive success:

Digital Commerce Architecture Ownership

• Lead architectural design and decision-making across Shopify and its supporting application ecosystem.

• Act as the custodian of the Shopify app estate, governing app selection, onboarding, and lifecycle management.

• Define and uphold architectural principles aligned to MACH, headless, microservices, and composable commerce patterns.

• Ensure digital commerce solutions align with enterprise standards, scalability, and long-term strategy.

Backlog & Business Engagement

• Guide the business in shaping, managing, and prioritising the digital commerce backlog in line with commercial priorities.

• Translate complex technical concepts into clear, actionable business decisions.

• Act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders across digital, marketing, and technology.

Delivery & Vendor Management

• Lead technical delivery in a multi-vendor and systems integrator environment.

• Collaborate closely with third-party partners to ensure high-quality, on-time delivery.

• Oversee and validate integrations between Shopify and wider digital platforms (e.g. Martech, SAP, Patchworks, CRM, PIM, DAM).

• Define and implement support and operating models for delivered solutions.

Platform Operations & Capability Building

• Define internal capability requirements and lead recruitment or upskilling to support and sustain the commerce platform.

• Help manage and optimise Pentland’s broader digital estate across B2B, D2C, and Martech solutions.

• Monitor platform performance, resolve architectural issues, and drive continuous improvement.

Security, Risk & Governance

• Ensure compliance with data protection and security standards (e.g. GDPR, PCI-DSS, ISO 27001).

• Identify and mitigate technical, integration, and data-related risks across all digital commerce solutions.

• Conduct architectural reviews to ensure robustness, resilience, and compliance.

Continuous Improvement & Innovation

• Proactively identify opportunities to optimise performance, reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency.

• Stay current with Shopify capabilities, emerging commerce trends, and digital architecture best practices.

• Recommend innovative approaches to maintain competitive advantage.

Metrics & Outcomes

• Define and track architectural success metrics (e.g. scalability, stability, security, business outcomes).

• Use data-driven insights to inform platform and architectural decisions.

Collaboration & Leadership

• Work cross-functionally with UX/UI, marketing, analytics, and data teams to deliver cohesive digital experiences.

• Mentor engineers and technical team members, promoting architectural best practices and knowledge sharing.

What you'll need to thrive:

Essential:

• Proven experience as a Digital or Commerce Architect in B2B and D2C environments.

• Strong hands-on experience with Shopify architecture, integrations, and ecosystem management.

• Demonstrated experience managing and prioritising digital backlogs in partnership with the business.

• Deep understanding of third-party integrations, APIs, and integration patterns.

• Experience defining and enforcing architecture standards in omni-channel or digital commerce environments.

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence at all organisational levels.

• Solid understanding of data flows, data privacy, and regulatory considerations.

• Experience working in agile delivery models and multi-vendor environments.

Desirable:

• Experience with additional eCommerce platforms or CMS solutions.

• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, DevOps practices, and automated testing.

• Experience with integration platforms (e.g. Patchworks).

• Exposure to composable commerce, event-driven architectures, PIM, DAM, and headless CMS solutions.

• Understanding of observability, performance monitoring, and incident management.

• Experience with digital analytics, personalisation, or CDP platforms.

• Awareness of cost optimisation in SaaS and cloud-based environments.

Alongside a competitive salary and discretionary bonus, we offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your wellbeing, flexibility, and life outside work. This includes generous holiday allowance with the option to buy more, hybrid and flexible working, enhanced family leave, pension and financial protection, wellbeing support, travel schemes, and generous discounts across Pentland Brands and selected retail partners. You can find full details of our benefits and perks on our UK Benefits page.

The Interview Process

We want our interview process to feel clear, straightforward, and supportive. If your experience and expectations look like a strong match for the role, here’s what you can expect next:

1. Talent Team Intro Call - A 30-minute video call with our Talent Team to get to know each other, talk through the role and your experience, and answer any questions you have.

2. Experience Interview - A more in-depth interview (usually online) with the hiring manager to explore your skills, experience and approach, and how these align with the role, our principles, and our ways of working.

3. Final Interview - A final in-person interview at our office, focused on deeper discussion and practical application, giving you the chance to meet more of the team and see Pentland Brands in action.