Senior Enterprise Architect – Digital Commerce & Cloud

ASDA; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary company bonus

Pension up 1.5x contributions

Car allowance £8000

15% colleague discount

Wellbeing services

Inclusion networks

Parental leave policies

Job summary

ASDA is seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect to lead technology architecture across its customer-facing digital estate, including Grocery Home Shopping, with a focus on defining strategy and target architectures. You will shape a transformation roadmap and oversee the migration of Grocery Home Shopping capabilities to the Ocado platform ecosystem.

You will partner with senior leadership to govern architecture standards, drive cloud-native patterns and ensure scalable, integrated platforms

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.
• An ability to balance strategic thinking with practical delivery outcomes.

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

Customer experience

Digital commerce

Transformation leadership

Architecture governance

Operating models

Technology strategy

Roadmap development

Stakeholder management

Resilient architectures

Cloud technologies

Data platforms

Integration patterns

Strategic thinking

Tools

Ocado platform

Job description

ASDA is seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect to lead technology architecture across its customer-facing digital estate, including Grocery Home Shopping, with a focus on defining strategy and target architectures. You will shape a transformation roadmap and oversee the migration of Grocery Home Shopping capabilities to the Ocado platform ecosystem.

You will partner with senior leadership to govern architecture standards, drive cloud-native patterns and ensure scalable, integrated platforms