Enterprise Architect – Digital Commerce & Cloud Transformation

ASDA; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus

Company pension

Company car allowance

Colleague discount 15%

Wellbeing services

Allies inclusion networks

Parental leave

Job summary

ASDA is seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect to lead technology architecture across its customer-facing digital estate, including Grocery Home Shopping and George.com. You will define the technology strategy, target architectures and a transformation roadmap underpinning ASDA's digital commerce ambitions.

The role requires senior leadership, deep experience in digital retail, and the ability to drive large-scale programs, migrations to Ocado platform, and collaboration with stakeholders

Qualifications

• Significant Enterprise Architecture experience within digital, customer or eCommerce domains.
• Strong knowledge of online retail, customer experience and digital commerce platforms.
• Experience leading complex transformation programmes and large technology roadmaps.
• Expertise in architecture governance, operating models, technology strategy and roadmap development.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence at executive level.
• Experience designing highly resilient, scalable and integrated platforms.
• Broad knowledge of cloud technologies, integration patterns, data platforms and modern engineering practices.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the technology strategy and architecture roadmap for eCommerce and Customer platforms.
• Provide architectural leadership for Asda's Grocery Home Shopping transformation and migration to the Ocado platform.
• Develop target-state, transition and integration architectures that support business growth and digital transformation.
• Govern technology decisions, architecture standards and solution designs across the domain.
• Partner with business and technology stakeholders to shape investment priorities and strategic initiatives.
• Promote modern architectural approaches including API-led, event-driven and cloud-native patterns.
• Drive simplification of the technology estate, reducing technical debt and improving platform re-use.
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders on digital commerce and customer technology strategy.

Skills

Enterprise Architecture

Digital commerce

Transformation programmes

Governance

Stakeholder management

Cloud technologies

APIs and integration

Scalable platforms

Job description

ASDA is seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect to lead technology architecture across its customer-facing digital estate, including Grocery Home Shopping and George.com. You will define the technology strategy, target architectures and a transformation roadmap underpinning ASDA's digital commerce ambitions.

The role requires senior leadership, deep experience in digital retail, and the ability to drive large-scale programs, migrations to Ocado platform, and collaboration with stakeholders