Hybrid Enterprise Architect — Omnichannel Platforms Leader

Ahold Delhaize USA; Quincy (MA); Hybrid; USD 163,000 - 245,000; Full time

Job summary

Ahold Delhaize USA in Quincy, MA seeks a Principal Enterprise Architect for Core Retail Systems to shape technology foundations enabling omnichannel strategy across stores, e-commerce, loyalty, and fulfillment.

You will partner with business and engineering leaders to design scalable platforms, govern standards, and drive architecture maturity while aligning with long-term strategy. This hybrid role requires authorization to work in the U.S. and offers in-person collaboration at core locations.

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.
• Exceptional communication, executive influence, and decision framing skills.
• Strong understanding of GenAI & Agentic patterns, including RAG, fine-tuning, prompt engineering, agent orchestration, and model serving approaches.

Responsibilities

• Sets the enterprise technology vision and operating model, orchestrating cross domain roadmaps, standards, and governance to ensure technology investments deliver measurable business value.
• Aligns enterprise technology strategy and multiyear roadmaps to business objectives, omnichannel growth.
• Defines enterprise blueprints synthesizing business, customer journeys, information, application, integration, infrastructure, data, and security viewpoints.
• 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; guides 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 and programs.
• Partners with product, engineering, and platform leaders to embed architecture practices into delivery.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Leadership

Strategic thinking

Executive communication

GenAI patterns

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent years of work experience

Job description

Ahold Delhaize USA in Quincy, MA seeks a Principal Enterprise Architect for Core Retail Systems to shape technology foundations enabling omnichannel strategy across stores, e-commerce, loyalty, and fulfillment.

You will partner with business and engineering leaders to design scalable platforms, govern standards, and drive architecture maturity while aligning with long-term strategy. This hybrid role requires authorization to work in the U.S. and offers in-person collaboration at core locations.