Senior Enterprise Architect, Core Retail Platforms (Hybrid)

Ahold Delhaize USA; Quincy (MA); Hybrid; USD 163,280 - 244,920; Full time

Job summary

As the Principal Enterprise Architect for Core Retail Systems at Ahold Delhaize USA, you will shape the technology foundation enabling ADUSA's grocery strategy across stores, e-commerce, loyalty, and enterprise platforms. You will partner with business, product, and engineering leaders to design scalable platforms that connect physical and digital experiences.

Your role blends strategic vision with architectural expertise, crafting enterprise roadmaps and guiding governance to ensure flexible,

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

• Aligns enterprise technology strategy and multiyear roadmaps to business objectives.
• 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 continuity.
• Partners with product, engineering, and platform leaders to embed architecture practices into delivery, ensuring solutions adhere to enterprise standards and long-term technology strategy.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Roadmap development

Cost/value modeling

Executive communication

GenAI patterns

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent years of work experience

Tools

TOGAF

ArchiMate/UML

Job description

As the Principal Enterprise Architect for Core Retail Systems at Ahold Delhaize USA, you will shape the technology foundation enabling ADUSA's grocery strategy across stores, e-commerce, loyalty, and enterprise platforms. You will partner with business, product, and engineering leaders to design scalable platforms that connect physical and digital experiences.

Your role blends strategic vision with architectural expertise, crafting enterprise roadmaps and guiding governance to ensure flexible,