Enterprise Architect

Tesco Hungary; Welwyn Garden City; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Tesco as an Enterprise Architect, where you'll lead the development and alignment of technology with strategic goals. You'll play a pivotal role in shaping the enterprise architecture, ensuring it supports the business strategy while fostering a collaborative culture. We're committed to creating an inclusive environment, offering a blend of office and remote work options to enhance team collaboration.

Qualifications

• Proven record of technology delivery at scale.
• Experience shaping strategic priorities using enterprise architecture.
• Hands-on engineering experience with strong leadership in governance.

Responsibilities

• Lead formulation and alignment of technology with business strategy.
• Guide high-level delivery planning and solution design.
• Support delivery through the technology lifecycle.

Skills

Technology delivery

Enterprise architecture

Solution architecture

Technology strategy

Governance

Stakeholder management

Job description

Enterprise Architect at Tesco

As an Enterprise Architect at Tesco, you lead the formulation, development, and alignment of new and existing technology with the Tesco Business Strategy to deliver a simpler, flexible, and sustainable architecture. You define, communicate, and govern the enterprise architecture for Tesco by creating standards and guidance for technology programs and solutions to ensure they enable and support the Tesco Business Strategy.

Responsibilities include:

1. Fostering understanding of the current technology landscape and its impact on stakeholders, including creating models and materials that describe the landscape and aid decision-making.
2. Evolving and embedding the technology strategy across Tesco Technology's functions, partnering with engineering and product leadership to define target enterprise architecture, and identifying organizational requirements for resources, structures, and cultural changes.
3. Guiding high-level delivery planning and solution design to meet strategic goals, collaborating with teams to design flexible, efficient, and secure solutions, and operating architecture governance processes.
4. Supporting successful delivery through the technology lifecycle, providing targeted support for initiatives with technical challenges.
5. Building architecture capability within Tesco, creating an engaging community on architecture topics, and fostering relationships across business units and partners.

Qualifications and experience:

• Proven record of technology delivery at Tesco scale.
• Experience in using enterprise architecture to shape strategic priorities.
• Solution architecture experience on major programs.
• Experience in creating, communicating, and embedding technology strategy.
• Hands-on engineering experience and leading solution architecture governance.

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Our vision at Tesco is to become every customer's favorite way to shop, whether at home or on the move. Our core purpose is ‘Serving our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day’. We are committed to an inclusive culture that values diversity, with accreditations such as Disability Confident Leader, and strive to provide accessible recruitment processes.

We offer diverse full-time and part-time working patterns and a blended approach of office and remote work, fostering a collaborative environment where everyone is welcome.