Solution architect - Retail

Spain Until 10/3/2026 First posted June 8, 2026 Last posted August 4, 2026
Job description

A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You’ll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you’ll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. 

At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences.

As a Solution Architect for Retail Industry Transformation, you will lead the solutioning of Retail and Fulfillment ecosystem, advising clients on digital transformation using agentic approaches. You will design transformation solutions for the entire enterprise, focusing on application architecture, solution, and design. Your primary responsibilities will include: 

• Design Core Fulfillment Solutions: Design core Fulfillment back-office transformation solutions for settlements, clearances, record management, compliance, accounting, internet retail, mobile retail, and store transformation, ensuring functionality, performance, availability, and scalability. 

• Lead Solution Delivery: Lead the delivery of large-scale, mission-critical product implementations into large retail institutions, involving complex system integrations, vendor product implementation, and data migrations. 

• Develop Application Architecture: Develop application architecture plans, solutions, and designs that meet operational, security, and non-functional requirements, running on multiple platforms and software packages. 

• Collaborate with Clients: Advise clients on Core Retail & Fulfillment systems,  

• Drive Intellectual Capital: Participate in the creation, harvesting, protection, and reuse of IBM's intellectual capital in solution design, applying expertise in Domain Driven Design and industry reference models.

• Retail and Fulfillment Expertise: Experience with designing and implementing Retail and Fulfillment solutions, including back-end systems, and interfaces to general ledger systems and reporting tools. 

• Large-Scale Implementation Experience: Experience with leading large-scale, mission-critical product implementations into large financial institutions, involving complex system integrations, vendor product implementation, and data migrations. 

• Application Architecture Knowledge: Experience with developing application architecture plans, solutions, and designs that meet operational, security, and non-functional requirements, running on multiple platforms and software packages. 

• Industry Reference Models Familiarity: Experience with industry reference models , and knowledge of Core to Cloud transformation. 

• Domain Driven Design Expertise: Deep expertise in Domain Driven Design, with the ability to apply this expertise in solution design and development.

• Fluent in Spanish & English.

• Core to Cloud Transformation: Experience with designing and implementing Core to Cloud transformations 

• Multi-Platform Solution Design: Experience with designing solutions that run on multiple platforms and software packages, meeting operational, security, and non-functional requirements. 

• Domain Driven Design Application: Deep expertise in applying Domain Driven Design principles to solution design and development, driving functional and scalable architectures.

About this role

Summary

Design and lead retail ecosystem solutions, guiding digital transformation and system integrations.

Job title

Solution architect - Retail

Experience level

not specified

Industry

software

Location requirements

Spain, remote work not specified

Salary

Not specified

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

retail systemscloud transformationapplication architecturesystem integrationdomain driven designmulti-platform designsecurity requirements

Preferred skills

None specified

Specializations

retail systemscloud transformationapplication architecturesystem integrationdomain driven design
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Spain

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