Enterprise Architect - Enabling Functions

Tesco; Welwyn Garden City; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading grocery retailer in Welwyn Garden City seeks an Enterprise Architect to drive technology alignment and shape enterprise architecture. Responsibilities include maintaining application landscape models and collaborating on solution designs. Ideal candidates should have experience in technology delivery at scale and a background in enterprise architecture. This role offers a hybrid working model with great benefits including bonuses and medical insurance.

Benefits

Annual bonus scheme up to 45% of base salary

Car allowance of £7,320 per annum

Holiday starting at 25 days plus personal day

Private medical insurance

Retirement savings plan with employer matching

Maternity, adoption, and paternity leave

Qualifications

• Proven record of Technology delivery at a large scale.
• Experience with Enterprise Architecture shaping strategic priorities.
• Hands-on engineering experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Ensure models describe the application landscape supporting the business.
• Define a target enterprise architecture aligned with business strategy.
• Collaborate with teams to design flexible, efficient, and secure solutions.

Skills

Technology delivery

Enterprise Architecture

Application architecture management

Communication skills

Agile methodologies

Job description

Tesco UK • Welwyn Garden City • Hybrid • Full-Time • Permanent • Apply by 24-Sep-2025

Overview

Enabling Functions Enterprise Architects at Tesco drive alignment to help Technology collectively deliver a simpler, flexible & sustainable architecture. They define, communicate and govern the enterprise and solution architecture for Enabling Functions that cover the domains of Finance, Colleague and Property and Legal in order to ensure it enables and delivers the Tesco Business Strategy.

Benefits

• Annual bonus scheme of up to 45% of base salary
• Car allowance of £7,320 per annum
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
• Private medical insurance
• Retirement savings plan - save between 6% - 10% and Tesco will contribute 1.5 times this amount
• 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 years' service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 4 weeks fully paid paternity leave

Responsibilities

You will be responsible for fostering understanding of the current technology landscape and its impact on stakeholders:

• Ensure we have models and materials that describe the application landscape at a high-level and how it supports the business
• Help colleagues of all levels to understand the bigger picture and their role / activities within it to aid decision making

Evolving and embedding our overall Technology Strategy and ensuring it informs everything we do:

• Define a target enterprise architecture that will improve our business for customers and colleagues in line with our business and Technology strategy and plans
• Identify organisational requirements for the resources, structures and cultural changes necessary to support the delivery of the enterprise architecture
• Identify the optimal approach to delivering Tesco business strategy while increasing agility and driving simplicity / cost efficiency over the short, medium and long-term.
• Contribute to business planning activities utilising our broad understanding of Tesco and broader industry / technology trends

Guiding delivery planning & solution design

• Work in collaboration with other teams to help ensure we design flexible, efficient and secure solutions
• Lead and facilitate the creation of governing principles, policies, standards etc. to guide solution decision making for architecturally significant initiatives
• On occasion supporting successful delivery by providing targeted support through the technology lifecycle, delivering business value and realising strategic goals.

Architectural framework

• Build architecture capability and competency within Tesco in keeping with our emphasis on agile, DevOps and "architecture is everyone's role" principles
• Create and operate an effective community to engage and educate Technology colleagues in enterprise and data architecture topics
• Proactively collaborate and communicate with Technology colleagues and delivery partners to drive awareness and interest
• Build effective relationships with our business and group colleagues, and valued 3rd party

Requirements

• Proven record of Technology delivery at Tesco scale
• Successful use of Enterprise Architecture to shape strategic priorities
• Design and management of an organisation's application architecture to meet it's strategic needs, providing a blueprint for data engineers to build
• Creation, communication and embedding of Technology strategy
• Leading solution architecture governance / assurance Hands on engineering experience
• Operating Model knowledge/experience of Finance, Colleague and Property domains

About us

Our vision at Tesco is to become every customer's favourite way to shop, whether they are at home or out on the move. Our core purpose is 'Serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day'. Serving means more than a transactional relationship with our customers. It means acting as a responsible and sustainable business for all stakeholders, for the communities we are part of and for the planet.

We are proud to have an inclusive culture at Tesco where everyone truly feels able to be themselves. At Tesco, we not only celebrate diversity, but recognise the value and opportunity it brings. We\'re committed to creating a workplace where differences are valued, and make sure that all colleagues are given the same opportunities. We\'re proud to have been accredited Disability Confident Leader and we\'re committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. For further information on the accessibility support we can offer, please click here.

We\'re a big business and we can offer a range of diverse full-time & part-time working patterns across our many business areas, which means that we can find something that works for you. We work in a more blended pattern - combining office and remote working. Our offices will continue to be where we connect, collaborate and innovate. If you are applying internally, please speak to the Hiring Manager about how this can work for you - Everyone is welcome at Tesco.