Lead Enterprise Architect, Strategy

ViziRecruiter,LLC.; Quincy (MA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

A major food retailer is seeking a Lead Enterprise Architect to spearhead the development and governance of its enterprise IT strategy. This role requires 12+ years in architecture, strong communication skills, and leadership across multi-domain portfolios. Responsibilities involve aligning technology strategy with business objectives and mentoring architects. The position offers a flexible/hybrid work schedule with core office locations in Salisbury, NC, and Quincy, MA, along with a competitive salary range of $160,000 to $240,000.

Qualifications

• 12+ years in architecture with leadership across complex portfolios.
• Expertise in enterprise architecture, roadmap development, and cost/value modeling.
• Proven experience in aligning technology with business objectives.

Responsibilities

• Align enterprise technology strategy with business objectives.
• Define enterprise blueprints across various domains.
• Chair enterprise design authority to guide governance decisions.
• Advise executives on industry trends and emerging technologies.
• Mentor architects to improve architecture maturity and methods.

Skills

Architecture practices

Leadership

Exceptional communication

Executive influence

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

TOGAF

ArchiMate

UML

Job description

Introduction

Ahold Delhaize USA, a division of global food retailer Ahold Delhaize, is part of the U.S. family of brands, which also includes five leading omnichannel grocery brands – Food Lion, Giant Food, The GIANT Company, Hannaford and Stop & Shop. Ahold Delhaize USA associates support the brands with a wide range of services, including Finance, Legal, Sustainability, Commercial, Digital and E-commerce, Technology and more.

Overview

In the role of Lead Enterprise Architect, Strategy, you will spearhead the development, implementation, and governance of ADUSA's enterprise IT strategy and architecture, ensuring alignment with our business strategy and vision. This position calls for a forward-thinking leader who will set the destination and architecture runway and guardrails to guide the IT organization.

We are seeking a candidate with a strong engineering mindset and extensive architectural experience, who can offer visionary leadership and articulate strategic guidance. Your expertise will be instrumental in fostering a culture of technical excellence, innovation, and continual improvement across the IT organization.

Sets the enterprise technology vision and operating model, orchestrating cross domain roadmaps, standards, and governance to ensure technology investments deliver measurable business value.

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

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

Responsibilities

• Aligns enterprise technology strategy and roadmaps to business objectives and multiyear 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.

Requirements

• 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