Technology Architect

Your purpose at Stanley/Stella Stanley/Stella is accelerating its digital transformation to strengthen customer experience and scale its business platforms across an international ecosystem of decorators, resellers, and partners.

The Enterprise Platform Architect & Tech Lead acts as the company’s

senior technical authority , reporting directly to the CIO.

This role defines, governs, and continuously evolves the

technology foundations of the enterprise

ensuring coherence, scalability, resilience, and security across all platforms, integrations, and data capabilities.

This is a

cross-cutting technical mandate

not a functional management role with accountability for integrating, securing, and anticipating technologies across the organization.

The role prevents fragmentation, avoids short-term decisions with long-term consequences, and translates emerging technologies into

robust, production-ready foundations .

A key and immediate priority is to

lead the integration of AI technologies

including RAG pipelines, agentic workflows, orchestration tools, low-code platforms, and API-based integrations across the company’s core stack:

Infor M3, HubSpot, Magento, Azure, and Power BI .

Your role and impact 1. Integrate and scale AI technologies

Design and implement

RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)

architectures leveraging company data for intelligent search and decision support

Assess and deploy

agentic workflows

orchestrating processes across ERP, CRM, and e‑commerce platforms

Leverage

N8N and similar orchestration tools

to automate workflows across systems

Drive adoption of

low‑code / no‑code platforms

within controlled and governed frameworks (e.g. Make, Bubble, Lovable)

Ensure

API‑first AI integration : reusable, composable, auditable services

Lead proof‑of‑concepts and transform successful experiments into

enterprise‑grade solutions

Build and govern a

central AI and application toolkit , tracking usage and performance

Enable future AI use cases such as product recommendations, pricing optimisation, demand forecasting, process automation, intelligent customer interaction

2. Foster communities and drive adoption

Build and lead

communities of practice

across architecture, data, AI, and digital tools

Promote tools, standards, and good practices through

workshops, documentation, and internal communication

Engage credibly with both

technical and non‑technical stakeholders

Act as a

trusted voice

on technology topics across the organisation

3. Integrate across the technology landscape

Define and evolve the

target architecture

of the digital platform

Ensure

end‑to‑end integration

across systems

Govern

data flows, APIs, and shared services

Define scalable

integration patterns

and eliminate point‑to‑point connections

Support and challenge engineering teams and vendors

without becoming a bottleneck

4. Secure the foundations

Identify and address

structural technical debt

early

Balance

innovation speed with long‑term sustainability

Structure

data foundations

as a shared enterprise capability (Azure & Power BI)

Enforce best practices in security, resilience, performance, observability

5. Define and enforce standards, patterns, and documentation

Define and govern

architecture standards and design patterns

across all domains

Maintain clear and usable

architecture documentation

(topology, data models, integrations, APIs, security)

Establish guidelines for teams, vendors, and partners to ensure

consistency across the ecosystem

Own: decision logs, architecture review processes, pattern libraries

Ensure all major technical decisions are

documented, justified, and traceable

Define

onboarding standards

enabling fast and reliable integration of new teams and partners

Scope Evolution

Azure Architecture & Security:

lead the Azure architect and security function, ensuring full alignment with enterprise standards and infrastructure strategy

System Administration:

oversee the sysadmin function, ensuring platform stability, performance and operational security across all environments

Technical Support Team:

manage the technical support unit, driving service quality, incident resolution and operational continuity

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