Senior Enterprise Architect - Digital Commerce Platform

Asda Stores Ltd; West Yorkshire; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus

Enhanced pension

Car allowance

Colleague discount

Wellbeing services

Parental leave

Job summary

Asda Stores Ltd in the UK seeks a seasoned Enterprise Architect to lead the technology architecture for our customer-focused digital estate, including Grocery Home Shopping and George.com. You will define the strategy, target architectures and transformative roadmap underpinning Asda's digital commerce ambitions.

This high-visibility role drives the strategic migration of Grocery Home Shopping to the Ocado platform while shaping governance and architectural standards across the domain.

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 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/eCommerce experience

Cloud technologies

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Governance

Job description

Asda Stores Ltd in the UK seeks a seasoned Enterprise Architect to lead the technology architecture for our customer-focused digital estate, including Grocery Home Shopping and George.com. You will define the strategy, target architectures and transformative roadmap underpinning Asda's digital commerce ambitions.

This high-visibility role drives the strategic migration of Grocery Home Shopping to the Ocado platform while shaping governance and architectural standards across the domain.