Executive Enterprise Architect – Core Retail Platforms (Hybrid)

ViziRecruiter,LLC.; Chicago, Northern (IL, KY); Hybrid; USD 163,000 - 245,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work schedule

Core office locations

Job summary

Ahold Delhaize USA is seeking a Principal Enterprise Architect for Core Retail Systems to shape the technology foundation enabling our omnichannel grocery strategy across stores, e-commerce, loyalty, merchandising, supply chain, fulfillment, and enterprise platforms.

You will partner with business, product, and engineering leaders to design scalable platforms, govern roadmaps, and ensure solutions are flexible, secure, and aligned to evolving customer needs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent years of work experience.
• 12+ years in architecture with leadership across complex, multi-domain portfolios.
• Expertise in enterprise architecture practices (principles, standards, governance), roadmap development, and cost/value modeling.

Responsibilities

• Aligns enterprise technology strategy and multiyear roadmaps to business objectives, omnichannel growth.
• Defines enterprise blueprints that synthesize business, customer journey, information, application, integration, infrastructure, data, and security viewpoints across store, digital, fulfillment, loyalty, and enterprise capabilities.
• Establishes architecture principles, reference architectures, technology standards, and rationalization guidelines.
• Chairs enterprise design authority/governance to guide decisions on scope, quality, risk, and total cost of ownership.
• Measures the value of enterprise architecture services; reports outcomes, adoption, and technical debt trends.
• Advises executives on industry trends and emerging technologies; shapes build/buy/retire decisions.
• Mentors' principal/solution/domain architects; raises architecture maturity, methods, and tooling across Tech.
• Drives alignment across major transformation initiatives, ensuring architecture consistency across portfolios, domains, and strategic programs.
• Partners with product, engineering, and platform leaders to embed architecture practices into delivery, ensuring solutions adhere to enterprise standards and long-term technology strategy.

Job description

Ahold Delhaize USA is seeking a Principal Enterprise Architect for Core Retail Systems to shape the technology foundation enabling our omnichannel grocery strategy across stores, e-commerce, loyalty, merchandising, supply chain, fulfillment, and enterprise platforms.

You will partner with business, product, and engineering leaders to design scalable platforms, govern roadmaps, and ensure solutions are flexible, secure, and aligned to evolving customer needs.