Principal Enterprise Architect, Emerging Technology

Primary Purpose

The Principal Enterprise Architect, Emerging Technology is a forward‑looking senior architect who identifies, evaluates, and interprets emerging technology trends and disruptors to provide strategic insight into how they can be applied and integrated into key areas of the business. This role defines reference architectures, standards, and adoption frameworks for emerging technologies such as Agentic and Generative AI, and maintains an Emerging Tech Adoption Radar to highlight developments most relevant to retail grocery and the enterprise technology landscape.

Working closely with peer architects, architecture leaders, product, IT, and external partners, the Principal EA guides the responsible exploration and adoption of new technologies through structured assessment, risk and benefit analysis, and architecture alignment. With a strong engineering and architecture mindset, this role shapes informed adoption decisions, publishes thought leadership and education for IT and business leadership, and helps ensure emerging technologies are introduced in a secure, scalable, and enterprise‑aligned manner.

• Develop enterprise reference architectures and technology standards; drive rationalization opportunities.
• Guide target state definition and roadmap sequencing across domains and platforms.
• Run design authority processes; resolve cross‑program architecture issues and risks.
• Evaluate market and technology trends; recommend adoption, expansion, or retirement paths.
• Partner with Finance to align architecture choices with TCO and value realization.
• Co‑coach architects and engineering leaders on modern design and integration practices.
• Ensure alignment between business strategy and technology architecture, translating strategic objectives into actionable architecture principles, standards, and implementation guidance.
• Lead enterprise‑wide architecture governance and decision frameworks, ensuring consistency, compliance, and traceability across major initiatives, platforms, and solution designs.
• Be available for critical escalations and urgent IT incidents as needed.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent years of work experience.
• 10+ years in solution/enterprise architecture, including governance and standards leadership.
• Strong business acumen, analytical judgment, and ability to simplify complex decisions.

• Experience implementing reference architectures in cloud‑enabled environments and product operating models.

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