Job Title Enterprise Architect – Cloud & Technology Location Asda House Employment Type Full time Contract Type Permanent Hours per Week 37.5 Salary Competitive Salary plus benefits Category Enterprise Information Architecture Closing Date 27 December 2024 As Asda's Enterprise Architect – Cloud & Technology you will be responsible for defining the long term strategic goals of the cloud, infrastructure, collaboration and service domains to be consciously aligned to Asda Group's fast paced strategic needs as a large UK retailer. You will create and actively advocate realistic roadmaps, holistic architectures and consistency through patterns aligned with peer EAs in integration, engineering, data and cyber security domains. A critical part of the role is to lead and support a team of multi-skilled cloud and technology solution architects, encouraging an open, consultative approach to stakeholder engagement through collaborative outreach. Asda colleagues put their customers at the heart of everything, this means you and the team need to anticipate, adapt and respond to customer needs through the evolving technology strategies you will become responsible for. Your responsibilities will include: Defining and iterating enduring strategies for the cloud, technology and service platform domains Providing technology leadership, mentorship and clear direction to an existing team of cloud and technology solution architects Foster an environment of cloud agility and innovation, considering both existing and forthcoming technologies and concepts, to support the engineering functions throughout Asda Group as they respond quickly to market change and disruption, while maintaining a suitable dimension of agility through architectural governance Promoting domain roadmaps with peers and stakeholders throughout the department, such as product owners of discrete disciplines like cloud, ingress, networking, security and client/collaboration Alignment with the overall vision of the Chief Technology Officer and head of architecture, and ensuring senior platform leaders and portfolio managers are advocating your resulting domain roadmaps through tangible outcomes Be an active voice and maintain authority about impacts on the cloud, infrastructure, collaboration and service domains at governance steering and architectural design forums. Uphold the use of existing and flag requirements for new principles, policies and standards though platform control artifacts to guide others Engage with your peer EAs to understand and acknowledge where your platforms support Retail, Supply, eCommerce and Back Office/Finance/People domain needs Maintain knowledge of domain capability and products, support deduplication and simplification of systems and their management Supporting the portfolio teams to deliver cost effective programme and project outcomes with architectural agility to meet timelines Being part of an extended leadership team that drives positive change into the architecture function, Technology department, and wider organisation About you: Significant experience operating as an Enterprise or lead Architect in the cloud and infrastructure domains, within complex business, application and data environments Practical knowledge of tooling that supports EA processes, governance and modelling concepts Innovative and with a continuous learning mindset; you will be passionate about technology, its business value and driving adoption Exposure to large scale cloud transformation programmes, experience with the people, process and technology change required Excellent working knowledge of a cloud hyperscale ecosystem, ideally supported with certification A background that includes practical engineering expertise in cloud, client and infrastructure technologies, as well as a strong opinion of the importance of modern service design and delivery processes Good working knowledge within the development, information security and privacy domains, and application of this within the cloud, infrastructure, collaboration and service domains The ability to concisely communicate complex technical concepts to a broad audience, relating them to business value Work Where it Works Our hybrid way of working gives you the choice to work where it works. This enables you to chose where you’ll be the most effective. It offers a mix of working from home and in an office environment that works best for you and your team. You will also get an excellent benefits package including;- • Discretionary company bonus • £8,000 company car or car allowance • Company pension 1.5 times colleagues contribution (Max 15%) • 10% colleague discount, free parking and many additional rewards. About You We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work, every day. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be Proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves.