Enterprise Architect - FTC

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We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work‑life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. Think about the scale it takes to feed the nation. The level of data, transactions and variety involved. Then you’ll realise this is a modern software engineering environment, because it has to be. We’ve made significant investment in the standards and principles that shape how we work.

We iterate, learn, experiment and champion ways of working such as Agile, Scrum and XP. So you can look forward to exciting opportunities across everything from AI to reusable tech.

Joining Sainsbury's Tech as an Enterprise Architect means embarking on an exciting journey to tackle some of the most compelling technology challenges in the retail industry. You will have the opportunity to work on some of our highest priority initiatives that impact large parts of our technology estate. Our Enterprise Architects will work end‑to‑end in shaping our technology, driving our design choices and influencing key stakeholders to meet our business goals.

As part of an agile and empowered team, you will collaborate with talented colleagues across Engineering, Product and Architecture to create innovative, scalable and future‑proof solutions. We foster a culture of collaboration, learning, and ownership, where your expertise and influence will extend across the organisation. With our commitment to ongoing development and the opportunity to work with cutting‑edge technologies, this is an exceptional chance to make a real impact and shape the future of retail technology.

As an Enterprise Architect at Sainsbury's, you will play a critical role in tackling complex technology problems within the retail industry. To deliver our high priority initiatives we need solutions that cross many parts of our technology estate, from our customer‑facing sales systems, through our supply‑chain and logistics systems and into our commercial and finance systems. We need our Enterprise Architects to understand the end‑to‑end impact, develop value streams to bring to life the key insights and design decisions that we face and work closely with our other stakeholders across product and engineering to move solutions into delivery.

This role will focus on our customer and loyalty domain and the impacts that innovation in this space will have on our wider technology estate.

You will have a key role in helping teams across our technology division to stay aligned to our strategic vision and deliver real change by helping to drive the realisation of key initiatives across our nectar loyalty platforms and our marketing technology.

We expect you to own solving problems and be a great communicator to bring people along with you. You will be guided by our Sainsbury’s technology principles, north stars and strategies and will be a champion in promoting their value and ensuring we are doing the right thing for Sainsbury’s and our customers.

As an Enterprise Architect for Sainsbury's Tech, you are a highly experienced and influential professional with a proven track record creating high level solutions in a large and complex enterprise estate. You will have experience in using and developing architecture models and tools across business, data, application and technology architecture.

You will be a confident communicator and are able to effectively facilitate groups of colleagues to align on a solution. You will have the ability to condense complex technology choices into digestible decisions and influence stakeholders at all levels. Your curiosity, adaptability, and ability to think and plan make you a valuable asset in navigating the rapidly evolving tech industry and shaping the future landscape of Sainsbury's multi‑brand, multi‑channel organisation.

• A track record of delivering technology transformation by developing influential architecture artefacts (Designs, Decision Records, Transitional Architectures etc.) and can demonstrate the value that they have added
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