Overview
Enterprise Architect - Enabling Functions
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.
Responsibilities
* 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 supporting 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.
Key People and Teams
Lead Enterprise Architect; Day-to-day engagement with Engineering teams and directors; Regular engagement with Product, Programme and Software Development Managers; Colleagues and business stakeholders across Tesco including dunnhuboy; Suppliers and 3rd parties.
Resources
N/A (direct influence on major strategic investments as part of role)
Skills and Experience
* Key Enterprise Architecture Skills: Technology understanding across Data, Software, Infrastructure and Security; Solution Shaping & Problem-Solving; Solution Portfolio Analysis & Management; Architecture modeling; Technical Writing (Standards, Whitepapers & Cookbooks)
* General, Shared Skills: Software and System Engineering (incl. Cloud); Business case development; Product Management; Programme Management; Stakeholder Management; Influence & Communication
* Experience Relevant For This Job: 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
Seniorities
* Mid-Senior level
Employment type
* Full-time
Job function
* Information Technology
* Software Development
London, England, United Kingdom
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