Senior Enterprise Architect — Omnichannel Platform Strategy

Ahold Delhaize USA; Salisbury (NC); Hybrid; USD 163,000 - 245,000; Full time

Job summary

Ahold Delhaize USA is seeking a Principal Enterprise Architect for Core Retail Systems to shape the technology foundation across stores, e-commerce, loyalty, and supply chain. You will partner with business and engineering leaders to design scalable platforms that connect physical and digital experiences.

You will craft enterprise roadmaps, ensure architectural compliance, and mentor architects while aligning initiatives with long-term strategy.

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

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

Skills

Executive communication

Leadership

Strategic thinking

Decision framing

GenAI concepts

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent years

TOGAF certification

Tools

ArchiMate

UML

Cloud architectures

Job description

Ahold Delhaize USA is seeking a Principal Enterprise Architect for Core Retail Systems to shape the technology foundation across stores, e-commerce, loyalty, and supply chain. You will partner with business and engineering leaders to design scalable platforms that connect physical and digital experiences.

You will craft enterprise roadmaps, ensure architectural compliance, and mentor architects while aligning initiatives with long-term strategy.