Senior Enterprise Architect - Omni-Channel Retail Platform

Loyalty360; Milford Terrace (NC); Hybrid; USD 163,000 - 245,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Ahold Delhaize USA is seeking a Principal Enterprise Architect for Core Retail Systems to shape the technology foundation powering stores, e-commerce, loyalty, and fulfillment. You will partner with business, product, and engineering leaders to design scalable platforms that connect physical and digital experiences and enable personalized shopper journeys across the ADUSA family.

This role blends strategic vision with architectural execution, guiding roadmaps, standards, and governance across

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, omnichannel growth.
• 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 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

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Roadmap development

Governance

Executive influence

GenAI & agentic patterns

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent years of work experience

12+ years in architecture with leadership across multi-domain portfolios

Experience with TOGAF/ArchiMate/UML

Job description

Ahold Delhaize USA is seeking a Principal Enterprise Architect for Core Retail Systems to shape the technology foundation powering stores, e-commerce, loyalty, and fulfillment. You will partner with business, product, and engineering leaders to design scalable platforms that connect physical and digital experiences and enable personalized shopper journeys across the ADUSA family.

This role blends strategic vision with architectural execution, guiding roadmaps, standards, and governance across