Platform Architect Manager

Ahold; Carlisle (Cumberland County); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Platform Architect to lead the architectural design of specific platforms. This role involves collaborating with enterprise architects, managing technology roadmaps, and ensuring that product architecture aligns with business needs. You will drive transformation within the technology department, implement governance frameworks, and proactively stay updated on emerging trends. With a focus on financial management and risk assessment, this position offers the chance to influence significant changes across the organization. Join a dynamic team that values growth and innovation while enjoying a flexible hybrid work model and a supportive work environment.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Hybrid working model

Growth opportunities

Inclusive work environment

Qualifications

• 10 years of relevant experience in technology architecture and management.
• Master's degree required; post-graduate preferred.

Responsibilities

• Drive technology transformation to meet changing business demands.
• Define architecture target state and roadmap for platforms.
• Ensure compliance with governance frameworks and manage risks.

Skills

Architectural Management

Risk Management

Technology Architecture

Financial Management

Communication Skills

Leadership

Education

Relevant master’s degree

Post-graduate degree

Tools

Governance Frameworks

KPI Monitoring Tools

Job description

Ahold Delhaize is one of the world's largest food retail groups and a leader in both supermarkets and e-Commerce. Its family of great, local brands serves more than 50 million customers each week in Europe, the United States and Indonesia. Together, these brands employ more than 420,000 associates in more than 7,000 grocery and specialty stores. Our Global Support Office (GSO) is based in Zaandam in the Netherlands, but GSO associates also work in all the countries we serve. This team supports all our great local brands in finance, HR, IT, legal, communications, sustainable retailing, and other key functions.

Platform Architect

The Platform architect is responsible for the architecture of a specific platform. He/she has elaborate and substantive experience and knowledge regarding the subject matters of a specific platform. He/she is responsible for:

• Interaction with Enterprise Architects, Product Cluster Architects and Tech Leads to ensure architectural compliance with the business and tech strategy and target enterprise architecture.
• Setting up and maintaining technology roadmaps for his/her platform.
• Ensuring that product architecture meets business requirements.
• Knowledge leader on the various technological components work together to deliver the desired functionality, the roadmap (technical and business) for the platform.
• Interaction with the key business domains to ensure business/technology alignment.

Key responsibilities of your role

Your role is highly diverse and encompasses various responsibilities. Here are the key ones:

Architectural Management, Governance and Risk Management

• Drive the transformation of the technology department to meet the needs of the changing business demands and to platform for growth and efficiency.
• Implement governance framework covering principles, procedures and processes and monitor KPI’s for specified platform.
• Identify and evaluate platform risks and participate in defining mitigation and control activities.

Technology Architecture Target State and Roadmap

• Define the architecture target state and roadmap for a specific platform.
• Consult operating unit Business on overall Portfolio and Investment plans based on the Architecture Roadmap.
• Support Enterprise Architecture to provide input into strategic roadmap and global architecture.
• Proactively stay abreast of emerging trends and technologies and incorporate in technology platform target state and roadmap.
• Develop and maintain an overall platform architecture roadmap. Integrate product architectures into the as-is platform architecture for future baseline references.
• Contribute to cross regional or Global Architecture Strategy.

Platform Architecture

• Translate business requirements into the platform technology architecture and product architecture deliverables.
• Ensure license efficiency.
• Comply with vendor strategy guidelines.
• Design future proof and scalable products.
• Consult with peer group on integration of platforms.
• Conduct continuous improvement analysis on existing application and infrastructure technologies and its ability to support the business requirements, and feedback to the enterprise architect.
• Incorporating relevant market trends and technology trends.
• Incorporating the technology service catalogue.
• Enable ‘innovation by design’.

Financial Management

• Ensure spending will be within budget (TCO) and report to management.
• Extract the value from existing systems, only investing in replacement when it is requirement for business continuity or to deliver a business requirement.
• Encourage creativity on delivering simple products that deliver the business needs fast.
• Work with the platform/Head of Techs to balance tradeoffs between speed to market, cost, risk and quality.
• Stay abreast of emerging technologies and the potential applicability to Group Tech.
• Proactively propose initiative to the business and the technology MT to increase the cost efficiency of delivery and maintenance of applications.

Feedback and Continuous Improvement

• Gather and analyze feedback from associates and stakeholders.
• Continuously improve adoption strategies and user experience.

Performance Monitoring

• Track and report on adoption metrics.
• Provide insights and recommendations for improvement.

What’s in it for you?

Aside from what we ask of you in this role, we also have a great deal to offer you: plenty of growth opportunities and various cross-brand career options; flexible working hours; a hybrid working model (we ask you to spend at least 50% of your working time at the office); and the chance to drive meaningful change on a global scale. You can look forward to a good work-life balance, and the chance to work in an inclusive environment that wholeheartedly encourages growth and welcomes you just the way you are.

Requirements

We think you’ll be best geared for success if you meet the following requirements:

• Relevant master’s degree. Post-graduate is preferred.
• 10 years of relevant experience.
• Drive design & planning across one business with the technology platform.
• Facilitating Executive Business Management.
• Serves as primary architect on large and complex platforms.
• Responsible for all the products in the platform.
• Focus is on advising senior management and designing & planning strategic change across the domain as a whole.
• Oversee architecture domains in two business or all technology products within a platform.
• Lead of one Program Architecture Delivery.
• Financial management.
• Demonstrated ability to conceptualize, launch and deliver multiple complex technology programs on time and within budget.
• Experience proposing and implementing wide architecture initiatives.
• Subject expertise of the 1 or more business and architecture domains.
• Inspiring.
• Dealing with ambiguity.
• Directing Business Value.
• Customer Focus.
• Demonstrate business relevance to business management.
• Strong communicator with managers and non-technology managers on tactical topics.
• Functional coach of Architects and act as domain or technology expert.
• Head of 1 business or all technology product architects (1-3 FTE).
• Maintains platform risk and Governance framework.

Apply now!
Are you keen to join the team? Even if you don’t tick all the boxes, but you still believe you have the personality and skills that make you a suitable candidate, we strongly encourage you to reach out to us. Apply now via the button on this page, or feel free to contact Katie Hillman via [e-mail] if you have any questions.

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