IGA Domain and Solution Architect

IGA Domain and Solution Architect
Salisbury
BachelorITAhold Delhaize Global Support United StatesIGA Domain and Solution Architect What do we offer?

Hybrid working

Wellbeing initiatives

Cross brand career options

What do you bring?
A positive attitude

A can-do mentality

A drive to innovate
Why Ahold Delhaize?

International & cross cultural collaboration
Inclusive & caring culture
Shape a healthier tomorrow
How you can make a difference

Ahold Delhaize Group is one of the world's largest food retail groups and a leader in both supermarkets and e-commerce. Our family of great local brands serves more than 50 million customers each week across Europe, the United States, and Indonesia. Together, these brands employ more than 420,000 associates in more than 7,000 grocery and specialty stores.

While Ahold Delhaize Group is headquartered in Zaandam, the Netherlands, our associates work across all the countries we serve. The Global Support Organization provides expertise and services that enable our local brands to succeed, supporting key areas including Finance, Human Resources, Information Technology, Legal, Communications, Sustainable Retailing, Cyber Security, and Enterprise Architecture.

At Ahold Delhaize, we combine the scale of a global organization with the entrepreneurial spirit of strong local brands. We are committed to building innovative, secure, and sustainable technology solutions that help our brands serve customers better every day.

Primary Purpose The IGA Domain and Solution Architect is responsible for defining, governing, and evolving enterprise Identity Governance & Administration (IGA) architecture across Ahold Delhaize. This role provides strategic architectural leadership for identity lifecycle management, access governance, role management, authentication, authorization, and identity integrations while ensuring alignment with business objectives, security requirements, and enterprise architecture standards.

Working closely with business leaders, security teams, product owners, engineers, and enterprise architects, the role serves as a trusted advisor for IAM strategy, roadmap development, and large-scale solution delivery. The architect balances innovation, security, operational efficiency, and business value to deliver scalable and sustainable identity solutions.

Duties and Responsibilities Strategy, Governance, and Roadmap Define and maintain the IGA target-state architecture and roadmap aligned with enterprise architecture principles and business objectives.

Translate technology strategy into scalable IAM governance models, standards, policies, and operating procedures.

Partner with business and technology leaders to align identity initiatives with strategic priorities and investment decisions.

Evaluate emerging technologies, industry trends, and market capabilities to identify opportunities for modernization and innovation.

Drive architecture planning across multiple technology domains and large-scale programs.

Domain and Solution Architecture Design enterprise-scale Identity Governance & Administration solutions supporting identity lifecycle management, access governance, provisioning, and role management.

Define architectures supporting Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC), authentication, authorization, and compliance requirements.

Develop architecture deliverables including reference architectures, high-level solution designs, Project State Architecture (PSA) documents, and technology standards.

Ensure solutions are secure-by-design, compliant-by-design, scalable, resilient, and aligned with approved architectural standards.

Provide architectural oversight throughout the solution lifecycle from concept through implementation and deployment.

Delivery Leadership Serve as the lead architect for large and complex IAM and IGA initiatives.

Provide technical leadership and guidance to Product Owners, Solution Architects, Engineers, and Delivery Teams.

Ensure architecture standards, design principles, and governance requirements are consistently applied across initiatives.

Review and approve solution designs, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture and security requirements.

Act as a subject matter expert for Identity Governance & Administration capabilities and best practices.

Operational and Support Responsibilities Serve as an escalation point for complex identity and access management challenges.

Support incident investigations, impact assessments, root cause analysis, and…