.ABOUT THE JOBAs a Solution Architect, you are responsible for the creation of technology and organisational transformation activities and technology direction.In collaboration with technology leaders including the Head of Architecture and other senior architects, you will help shape a vision and strategies regarding IT architecture to translate business opportunities and customer expectations into innovative IT solutions within the retail sales area.You will use your excellent facilitation and solicitation skills to effectively engage with teams to enhance their capability, continuously exploring new ways to improve the quality of solutions, ensuring that options are considered, and recommended approaches are clearly designed with valuable solutions.You champion policies, standards and practices and help define and execute the technology strategy for TUI and each domain, using your knowledge of compliance and integrity of the business strategies.You identify and implement improvement architectural practices in an agile environment and map the discrepancy between the current processes and the desired state to continuously innovate processes and adapt them to market trends.You also ensure that technical implementation is in accordance with the enterprise and solution architecture standards, and the objectives of the organisation.You maintain a strong understanding of the bigger picture, keeping yourself continuously informed of the latest innovations, technologies, patterns and practices in regards to modular architecture.You think ahead and understand the overall business context and strategy and use these insights to shape emergent architecture of the retail sales domain.You ensure we have the architecture capacity, capabilities and culture to deliver business outcomes sustainably and with the right level of quality from the outset.You use your deep skills to help teams improve their expertise in Microservice development across the Domain. You never come across as preachy or dogmatic, but you are always clear and vocal about what you believe in.You always drive for technical excellence, ownership and self-organisation at team level. You help the team to find a balance between tactical solutions and long-term platform sustainability and maintainability.You research, evaluate and test new processes and tools, helping teams use them effectively, and you collaborate closely with Technology Leads to increase the DevSecOps maturity in all teams to help achieve the agreed OKRs / goals at team and domain level.As an experienced Microservice and API specialist in a scaled cloud environment you have a proven track record in designing modular, scalable, highly-performant and resilient global solutions.You will participate in, or even lead, domain-wide engineering excellence efforts and propose high impact initiatives and projects