Senior Enterprise Architect - Retail & Omnichannel Platforms

Ahold Delhaize USA; Chicago (IL); 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 enterprise technology across stores, e-commerce, loyalty, and supply chain. You will craft scalable platforms, collaborate with business, product, and engineering leaders, and drive architecture governance to enable omnichannel strategies.

The role requires a strategic vision, strong architectural expertise, and the ability to balance long-term roadmaps with agile delivery.

Qualifications

• 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.
• 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 across store, digital, fulfillment, loyalty, and enterprise capabilities.
• Defines enterprise blueprints that synthesize business, customer journey, information, application, integration, infrastructure, data, 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.
• 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

Leadership

Enterprise architecture

Executive communication

GenAI patterns

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

TOGAF

ArchiMate

UML

Job description

Ahold Delhaize USA is seeking a Principal Enterprise Architect for Core Retail Systems to shape enterprise technology across stores, e-commerce, loyalty, and supply chain. You will craft scalable platforms, collaborate with business, product, and engineering leaders, and drive architecture governance to enable omnichannel strategies.

The role requires a strategic vision, strong architectural expertise, and the ability to balance long-term roadmaps with agile delivery.