Location: Reading or Dublin (Hybrid working)
Day Rate: Competitive Day Rate (Inside IR35)
Duration: Initial 6 Months
About the Role
We’re looking for a Domain Architect for Buying & Planning to shape the future of Primark’s merchandising, planning, forecasting, allocation, and replenishment technology landscape.
This is a senior strategic role where you’ll partner closely with the Head of Product & Delivery, acting as their trusted architectural adviser. You’ll guide major investment decisions, define the domain roadmap, and ensure our Oracle Retail ecosystem evolves in line with business ambition.
You’ll work alongside a team of Oracle specialists and oversee a group of Solution Architects - providing technical direction, architectural leadership, and clarity of vision.
What You’ll Be Doing
Strategic & Architectural Leadership
Define the architecture vision, strategy, and multi‑year roadmap for Buying & Planning.
Shape strategic solution options across merchandising, planning, forecasting, allocation, and replenishment.
Drive modernisation, simplification, and lifecycle planning across the Oracle Retail estate.
Lead innovation and horizon scanning to ensure the domain stays ahead of business needs.
Governance & Assurance
Chair or contribute to domain design forums and represent Buying & Planning at the Enterprise Design Authority.
Provide design assurance across delivery, approving high‑level designs and ensuring alignment to enterprise principles.
Strengthen architectural governance, tooling, and documentation across the domain.
Delivery & Collaboration
Partner with Product, Platform, and Programme leaders to shape demand, sequencing, and investment priorities.
Lead early ideation and concept shaping for new initiatives.
Collaborate with other architecture practices to ensure cross‑domain consistency.
Provide architectural leadership and technical direction to Solution Architects and Engineers.
Maintain an accurate domain landscape and ensure critical design knowledge is captured and shared.
Contribute to the growth of the architecture community through coaching and collaboration.
Role Scope & Influence
Accountable for a domain with £10m–£20m annual technology spend.
Influence procurement decisions typically valued between £5m–£20m.
Provide design leadership to 5–10 architects and senior engineers (no direct line management).
Act as the senior design authority for all Buying & Planning technology decisions.
Partner with senior leaders across Buying, Planning, Merchandising, Product, and Technology.
What You’ll Bring
Strong blend of enterprise and solution architecture experience.
Deep knowledge of Oracle Retail (e.g., RMS, RPAS, Allocation, Replenishment, Planning & Forecasting).
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills — able to translate complex concepts for non‑technical audiences.
Strong relationship‑building capability, especially with senior business leaders.
Strategic thinker with strong analytical and organisational skills.
Broad technical awareness across applications, data, integration, and platforms.
Experience guiding and mentoring Solution Architects.
Experience with modern planning and forecasting platforms.
Familiarity with merchandising and planning processes in global retail.
Experience with analytics, optimisation, or AI‑driven planning tools.
Awareness of sustainability and circularity considerations in retail product lifecycles.
If you’re excited by the idea of shaping the architecture of a global retailer undergoing major transformation, this is your opportunity to make a real impact.
