As an Enterprise Architect at Tesco you lead the formulation, development and alignment of current and existing Technology with the Tesco Business Strategy to collectively deliver a simpler, flexible sustainable architecture. You define, communicate and govern the enterprise architecture for Tesco by creating standards and guidance for Technology programmes and solutions in order to ensure it enables and delivers the Tesco Business Strategy.
Responsibilities
- Fostering understanding of the current technology landscape and its impact on stakeholders.
- Ensure we have models and materials that describe the 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 Technology strategy across Tesco Technologys functions:
- Partnering technology engineering and product leadership to define 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.
- Supporting portfolio and programme teams to contribute to planning activities utilising our broad understanding of Tesco, its technology landscape 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 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
- Operate the architecture review, governance and exception processes
- Supporting successful delivery through the technology lifecycle, delivering business value and realising strategic goals.
- On occasion, provide targeted support for initiatives with technical challenges during their delivery
- Evolving our federated architecture and design framework as part of the Technology delivery model
You will need
Key people and teams I work with in and outside of Tesco:
- Build architecture capability and competency within Tesco in keeping with our emphasis on agile, DevOps and architecture is everyones role principles.
- Create and operate an effective community to engage and educate Technology colleagues in enterprise and solution architecture topics
- Proactively collaborate and communicate with Technology colleagues and delivery partners to drive awareness and interest
- Build effective relationships with our Stores business and PLC group colleagues, and valued 3rd party partners.
- Head of Enterprise Architecture
- N/A (direct influence on major strategic investments as part of role)
- Day-to-day engagement with Engineering teams and directors
- Regular engagement with Product, Programme and Software Development
- principals and managers
- Colleagues and business stakeholders across Tesco
- Suppliers and 3rd parties
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