Staff Solutions Architect
Yum! Brands, Inc.1 month ago
United Kingdom (city not specified)Staff+
Responsibilities
- Guide architecture for KFC Global technology initiatives across digital commerce, loyalty, POS, and restaurant technology.
- Design and review cloud-native solutions on AWS, including integrations, APIs, service boundaries, and system responsibilities.
- Review front-end architecture for web and mobile applications using React and React Native.
- Review data and event-driven designs as part of broader technology solutions.
- Identify architectural risks, trade-offs, and opportunities for reuse.
- Represent KFC initiatives through Yum!'s Architecture Review Process.
- Provide technical guidance to engineering and product teams.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in software engineering, solution architecture, or platform architecture.
- Strong experience designing distributed, cloud-native systems on AWS.
- Experience with digital platforms, microservices, APIs, and integration architecture.
- Experience with React, React Native, and mobile app deployments.
- API design and review experience.
- Experience integrating cloud platforms with enterprise or in-store systems.
- Experience producing architecture diagrams and technical decision records.
- Experience participating in architecture reviews or technical governance.
- Strong technical judgment and communication skills.
- Preferred experience includes digital commerce or omni-channel loyalty, POS or restaurant or retail technology, Azure, messaging, event-driven architectures, data platforms, and enterprise architecture or architecture governance.
About Yum! Brands, Inc.
Yum! Brands is a publicly traded restaurant company that operates and franchises KFC, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, and The Habit Burger Grill for consumers worldwide. Its model centers on franchising, digital ordering, and delivery platforms, with corporate teams supporting marketing, supply chain, and enterprise technology. The company was formed in 1997 and is headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, with thousands of restaurants across more than 150 countries.