Lead Enterprise Architect, Engineering Excellence

Loyalty360; Quincy (MA); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Incentive bonus

Job summary

Ahold Delhaize USA is seeking a Lead Enterprise Architect, Engineering Excellence to shape enterprise architecture strategy and operating models across product, engineering, security, and operations. This leadership role partners with DevSecOps to enable scalable, secure engineering practices at scale.

The candidate will drive architectural direction, establish Centers of Excellence, and mentor architects to raise maturity and delivery effectiveness across portfolios.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent years of work experience.
• 12+ years in architecture with leadership across multi-domain portfolios.
• Expertise in enterprise architecture practices, governance, roadmaps, and cost/value modeling.
• Exceptional communication, executive influence, and decision framing skills.

Responsibilities

• Aligns enterprise technology strategy and roadmaps to business objectives and multi-year funding plans.
• Defines enterprise blueprints synthesizing business, information, applications, integration, infrastructure, and security viewpoints.
• Establishes architecture principles, reference architectures, standards, and guidelines.
• Chairs enterprise design authority/governance to guide scope, quality, risk, and total cost of ownership.
• Measures the value of EA services; reports outcomes, adoption, and debt trends.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Leadership

Executive influence

Decision framing

Roadmap development

Cost/value modeling

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent years of work experience

Tools

TOGAF

ArchiMate

UML

Job description

Category/Area of Expertise: IT & Technology
Job Requisition: 535997

Address: USA-MA-Quincy-1385 Hancock Street
Store Code: IT Executive & Administration (5167642)

Ahold Delhaize USA is a division of global food retailer Ahold Delhaize, part of the U.S. family of brands including Food Lion, Giant Food, The GIANT Company, Hannaford and Stop & Shop.

Primary Purpose

The Lead Enterprise Architect, Engineering Excellence is a senior technology leader with a proven track record of shaping and advancing enterprise engineering strategy, architecture, and operating models to deliver measurable business value. This role defines the architectural vision, standards, guardrails, and reference patterns that enable consistent, scalable, and secure engineering practices across the enterprise. Working across product, engineering, security, operations, and in close partnership with the DevSecOps team, the Lead Architect aligns cross-domain roadmaps and strategic technology direction to strengthen developer productivity, platform enablement, and delivery effectiveness.

As the Enterprise Architecture Lead for Engineering Excellence, this role drives the adoption of modern engineering capabilities by influencing technical direction, promoting technical excellence, and establishing the structures that support long-term capability maturity. Through Communities of Practice, cross-cutting ONETech expert teams, and Centers of Excellence, the role fosters the adoption of best practices, guides capability uplift across delivery teams, and ensures architectural direction is grounded in operational realities. In doing so, the Lead Architect strengthens enterprise engineering capability, improves consistency and governance, and enables sustainable value realization at scale.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Aligns enterprise technology strategy and roadmaps to business objectives and multi-year funding plans.
• Defines enterprise blueprints that synthesize business, information, application, integration, infrastructure, and security viewpoints.
• 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.
• Advices 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.
• May be called upon to support critical escalations and must be available during urgent IT incidents as needed.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent years of work experience.
• 12+ years in architecture with demonstrated 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF), modeling (e.g., ArchiMate/UML), and portfolio governance.
• Background spanning cloud, data, integration, security, and end user domains.

Salary Range

$160,000 - $240,000

Work Schedule

Our flexible/hybrid work schedule includes 3 in-person days at one of our core locations and 2 remote days. Core office locations are Salisbury, NC; Chicago, IL; Quincy, MA.

Location

Core office locations: Salisbury, NC; Chicago, IL; Quincy, MA.

Work Authorization

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.

Benefits

This position is eligible for an incentive bonus based on company performance as provided by the plan terms and governing documents.