Director , IT Data Enterprise Architecture

Position: Director I, IT Data Enterprise Architecture
Introduction

Ahold Delhaize USA, a division of global food retailer Ahold Delhaize, is part of the U.S. family of brands, which also includes five leading omnichannel grocery brands – Food Lion, Giant Food, The GIANT Company, Hannaford and Stop & Shop. Ahold Delhaize USA associates support the brands with a wide range of services, including Finance, Legal, Sustainability, Commercial, Digital and E-commerce, Technology and more.

Overview

This role is responsible for establishing the architectural vision, strategy, and IT roadmap for Ahold Delhaize USA. The focus is on ensuring technological consistency, optimizing costs, and enhancing productivity. By collaborating closely with business and IT leaders, the Director ensures that IT solutions align with business objectives, promoting a cohesive approach to achieving strategic goals.

The Enterprise Data Architect Director will visualize and design the enterprise data management framework that aligns with the enterprise strategy and business architecture. This role will harmonize, standardize, and streamline enterprise data architecture with a clear focus on data governance, data migration, data transformation and data enrichment, reference architectures, patterns, and decision‑making frameworks that guide architectural practices across the organization.

The Director operates with a high degree of autonomy while following a structured accountability framework. This role also entails influencing the organization’s architecture strategy and engaging with senior management to align governance and business objectives. Strong problem‑solving skills and the capability to leverage both established and emerging technologies are essential for success in this position.

Responsibilities

Leadership:

• Inspire and guide architecture, solution delivery, and IT service teams to develop a service‑driven culture that fosters high productivity.

• Establish a community of architectural excellence within Ahold Delhaize USA, embedding architectural thinking as a core way of working.

• Actively challenge the status quo and propose solutions to enhance business performance and efficiency.

Professional Standards, Policies, and Ways of Working:

• Contribute to the development and implementation of global standards, principles, and reference models for application, data, security, and infrastructure architecture.

• Ensure compliance with architecture principles, monitoring key performance indicators (KPIs) across business domains.

IT Strategy and

Roadmap:

• Define and manage the IT strategy, roadmap, and transition plan in alignment with business and financial goals.

• Translate business requirements into technology requirements including data streams, integrations, transformations, databases, and data warehouses.

• Define data architecture framework, standards, principles, including modeling, metadata, security, reference data, and master data.

• Visualize and design the organization’s enterprise data management framework.

• Support the development of architecture roadmaps and facilitate the transition of IT landscapes toward target states.

• Work with enterprise platform architects to ensure solutions align with the overall IT strategy and principles.

Risk, Compliance & Security:

• Ensure that all architecture solutions comply with security, privacy, and regulatory requirements.

• Embed compliance principles into architecture governance and the solution design process.

Innovation & New Technology:

• Stay abreast of emerging technology trends and integrate them into the IT roadmap.

• Lead the work with third‑party vendors to align their innovation roadmaps with the organization’s strategy.

Enterprise Architecture Operation:

• Support the transition from legacy systems to future‑state architecture, maximizing value and ensuring appropriate planning for decommissioning redundant solutions.

• Maintain relationships with senior business leaders to ensure alignment of architecture decisions with business objectives.

Financial Management:

• Align architectural decisions with financial budgets, ensuring that total cost of ownership (TCO) is controlled and minimized.

• Ensure technical debt is managed,…