Domain Architect - SAP

Sainsbury's; Greater London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK retailer is seeking a Domain Architect to lead technology strategy across its commercial systems. The successful candidate will collaborate with engineering and product teams to shape solutions, ensure alignment with strategic vision, and create impactful architecture artifacts. Candidates should have experience with ERP implementations, ideally SAP, and possess strong communication skills to influence stakeholders. This role offers an opportunity to make a significant impact on the tech landscape in a rapidly evolving organization.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to create enterprise-level technology strategies.
• Experience in ERP implementations, ideally SAP.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills.

Responsibilities

• Drive technology strategy for commercial systems.
• Communicate and champion technology direction.
• Collaborate with architecture community for strategic initiatives.

Skills

Technology strategy development

ERP implementation

Stakeholder influencing

Architecture principles

Agile methodologies

Tools

SAP

Job description

We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. Think about the scale it takes for us to feed the nation. The level of data, transactions and variety it involves. Then you’ll realise that ours is a modern software engineering environment because it has to be. We’ve made serious investment into a Tech Academy and into setting standards and principles. We iterate, learn, experiment and push ways of working such as Agile, Scrum and XP. So you can look forward to awesome opportunities in everything from AI to reusable tech.

Why join us

Joining Sainsbury's Tech as our Commercial Domain Architect means embarking on an exciting journey to tackle some of the most compelling technology challenges in the retail industry. You will have the opportunity to shape and drive the technology strategy and roadmap for our commercial domain across all our brands. As part of an agile and empowered team, you will collaborate with talented colleagues across Engineering, Product, and Architecture to create innovative, scalable, and future-proof solutions. We foster a culture of collaboration, learning, and ownership, where your expertise and influence will extend across the organisation. With our commitment to ongoing development and the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies, this is an exceptional chance to make a real impact and shape the future of retail technology.

What you’ll do

As a Domain Architect at Sainsbury's, you will play a critical role in tackling complex technology problems within the retail industry.

• You will partner with Heads of Engineering and Product to deliver strategic, big-picture thinking and define the overall technology direction for a significant area of our business.
• Drive the creation of our north star and technology strategy for our Commercial systems as well as ensuring that technical decisions in this space are well informed and meet our technology principles and standards.
• Communicate and champion the technology strategy, inspiring colleagues and teams to contribute and align with the overall vision.
• As a part of a wider team driving the migration of our core commercial systems over to SAP, you will be key to ensuring we understand the dependencies across the enterprise and that we collectively produce designs that align to our strategic vision.
• Collaborate with the broader architecture community, sharing expertise and promoting alignment for key strategic initiatives across Sainsbury's Tech.
• Maintain accurate data about your domain, scan the external environment for innovative perspectives, and influence decision-making at all levels through your strong communication and influencing skills.

Who you are

• You are a highly experienced and influential professional with a proven track record in building and shaping technology strategy.
• You will have previous experience with ERP implementation (Ideally SAP) and understand how to effectively manage impact, identify the key decisions and drive change.
• You will need to foster great relations with our wider architecture team, our trusted implementation partners and our senior leaders.
• You should have a strong background in developing and implementing domain-level roadmaps and strategies, in addition to possessing a deep understanding of overall technology principles and standards.
• Your expertise in evolving architectures, modern engineering practises and business capability modelling allows you to shape the components being developed to drive simplification and graceful evolution over time.
• As a skilled communicator, you can condense complex technology choices into digestible decisions and influence stakeholders at all levels.
• Your curiosity, adaptability, and ability to think and plan ahead make you a valuable asset in navigating the rapidly evolving tech industry and shaping the future landscape of Sainsbury's multi-brand, multi-channel organisation.

Minimum Criteria

• Previous experience of creating a technology strategy or setting a north star at an enterprise level or for a large segment of an enterprise
• Solid understanding of retail and the key functionality that would make up our commercial domain
• Experience in working on ERP implementations (ideally SAP) and identifying dependencies and driving to get answers to the key design decisions that are required
• Strong track record of influencing stakeholders at director/senior management level
• A track record of delivering technology transformation by developing influential architecture artefacts (Designs, Decision Records, Transitional Architectures etc.) and can demonstrate the value that they have added