Enterprise Architect - Enabling Functions

Tesco Partners
Welwyn Garden City
1 week ago
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About the role

Enabling Functions Enterprise Architects at Tesco drive alignment to help Technology collectively deliver a simpler, flexible & sustainable architecture. They define, communicate and govern the enterprise and solution architecture for Enabling Functions that cover the domains of Finance, Colleague, Property and Legal in order to ensure it enables and delivers the Tesco Business Strategy.

You will be responsible for

Fostering understanding of the current technology landscape and its impact on stakeholders:

  • Ensure we have models and materials that describe the application landscape at a high-level and how it supports the business
  • Help colleagues of all levels to understand the bigger picture and their role / activities within it to aid decision making

Evolving and embedding our overall Technology Strategy and ensuring it informs everything we do:

  • Define a target enterprise architecture that will improve our business for customers and colleagues in line with our business and Technology strategy and plans
  • Identify organisational requirements for the resources, structures and cultural changes necessary to support the delivery of the enterprise architecture
  • Identify the optimal approach to delivering Tesco business strategy while increasing agility and driving simplicity / cost efficiency over the short, medium and long-term.
  • Contribute to business planning activities utilising our broad understanding of Tesco and broader industry / technology trends

Guiding high-level delivery planning and solution design to deliver our strategic goals whilst ensuring we continuously deliver business value:

  • Work in collaboration with other teams to help ensure we design flexible, efficient and secure solutions
  • Lead and facilitate the creation of governing principles, policies, standards etc. to guide solution decision making for architecturally significant initiatives
  • On occasion support successful delivery by providing targeted support through the technology lifecycle, delivering business value and realising strategic goals.

Evolving our federated architecture and design framework as part of the Technology delivery model:

  • Build architecture capability and competency within Tesco in keeping with our emphasis on agile, DevOps and 'architecture is everyone's role' principles
  • Create and operate an effective community to engage and educate Technology colleagues in enterprise and data architecture topics
  • Proactively collaborate and communicate with Technology colleagues and delivery partners to drive awareness and interest
  • Build effective relationships with our business and group colleagues, and valued 3rd party partners.
You will need
  • Proven record of Technology delivery at Tesco scale
  • Successful use of Enterprise Architecture to shape strategic priorities
  • Design and management of an organisation's application architecture to meet its strategic needs, providing a blueprint for data engineers to build
  • Creation, communication and embedding of Technology strategy
  • Leading solution architecture governance / assurance
  • Practical experience with deploying data Science models
  • Hands-on engineering experience Operating Model knowledge/experience of Finance, Colleague and Property domains
What’s in it for you

We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we make sure our Tesco colleague benefits package takes care of you – both in and out of work.Click Hereto find out more!

  • Annual bonus scheme of up to 45% of base salary
  • Car Cash Allowance
  • Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
  • Private medical insurance
  • Retirement savings plan - save between 6% - 10% and Tesco will contribute 1.5 times this amount
  • 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 years’ service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 6 weeks fully paid paternity leave
About us

You might know us as a supermarket, technology company or even for our award-winning mobile network. Truth is, we’re all of those things, and much more. Our colleagues work with one goal in mind, helping to make every day a little better for our customers, colleagues and communities all over the world. No two customers are the same, neither are our colleagues.

At Tesco, we champion a balance that lets you thrive both in and out of work. Spend 60% of your week collaborating with colleagues at our office locations or local sites and the rest remotely. Whether you're just kicking off your career, juggling passions, or navigating big life events, we're here to support you. We always welcome a conversation about flexible working, so talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.

We're proud to be an accredited Disability Confident Leader, where everyone’s welcome. That’s why we commit to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you need support with your application,click herefor more information. And if you're interested in joining our team but don't tick every box, don't let that hold you back from applying.

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