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Principal Enterprise Architect, Retail Systems

Ahold Delhaize USA

Salisbury, USA

Full-time

Senior · 12+ years experience

Hybrid

USD 163280-244920 yearly / year

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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.
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.
Experience with architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF), modeling (e.g., ArchiMate/UML), and portfolio governance.
Background spanning cloud, data, integration, security, and end user domains
Experience architecting omnichannel retail capabilities across store systems, e-commerce, loyalty, merchandising, supply chain, fulfillment, customer engagement, and enterprise platforms.
Demonstrated ability to connect business strategy, customer journeys, operational processes, data flows, and technology platforms into executable architecture roadmaps.
Experience with modern retail architecture patterns, including API-led integration, event-driven architecture, master/reference data, inventory visibility, order orchestration, personalization, and platform rationalization.
Ability to evaluate technology investments through both business and architecture lenses, including customer experience, operational resilience, speed to market, platform reuse, and total cost of ownership.