Ahold Delhaize USA · 2 weeks ago
Director I, IT Data Enterprise Architecture
Quincy, MA
Full-time
Hybrid
Director/Executive
$139K/yr - $209K/yr
17+ years expAhold Delhaize USA is a division of global food retailer Ahold Delhaize, comprising several leading grocery brands. The Director I, IT Data Enterprise Architecture is responsible for establishing the architectural vision and IT roadmap, ensuring alignment with business objectives while optimizing costs and enhancing productivity.
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Responsibilities
Inspire and guide architecture, solution delivery, and IT service teams to develop a service-driven culture that fosters high productivity
Establish a community of architectural excellence within Ahold Delhaize USA, embedding architectural thinking as a core way of working
Actively challenge the status quo and propose solutions to enhance business performance and efficiency
Contribute to the development and implementation of global standards, principles, and reference models for application, data, security, and infrastructure architecture
Ensure compliance with architecture principles, monitoring key performance indicators (KPIs) across business domains
Define and manage the IT strategy, roadmap, and transition plan in alignment with business and financial goals
Translate business requirements into technology requirements including data streams, integrations, transformations, databases, and data warehouses
Define data architecture framework, standards, principles, including modeling, metadata, security, reference data, and master data
Visualize and design the organization's enterprise data management framework
Support the development of architecture roadmaps and facilitate the transition of IT landscapes toward target states
Work with enterprise platform architects to ensure solutions align with the overall IT strategy and principles
Ensure that all architecture solutions comply with security, privacy, and regulatory requirements
Embed compliance principles into architecture governance and the solution design process
Stay abreast of emerging technology trends and integrate them into the IT roadmap
Lead the work with third-party vendors to align their innovation roadmaps with the organization's strategy
Support the transition from legacy systems to future-state architecture, maximizing value and ensuring appropriate planning for decommissioning redundant solutions
Maintain relationships with senior business leaders to ensure alignment of architecture decisions with business objectives
Align architectural decisions with financial budgets, ensuring that total cost of ownership (TCO) is controlled and minimized
Ensure technical debt is managed, informing the software lifecycle process including Gartner TIME and 6Rs
Qualification
Required
Proven experience in enterprise architecture and governance
Strong experience in defining Data Strategy and Data Architecture roadmap
Strong experience in Enterprise Data Architecture, data platforms, data strategy consulting, or equivalent data management experience
Experience with integrating SAP data into data platforms, data structure and deployment; including but not limited to the MDG
Experience with cloud-based platforms like Azure Data Stack (Azure SQL, Data Factory, Analysis Services, Databricks, Azure DevOps, Azure EventHubs, etc.)
Experience developing data management systems including logical and physical data modeling, relational and data warehouse database design, and design and development of system-wide metadata
Experience working with structured, unstructured and/or semi-structured data and conducting analysis
Experience with both relational and distributed database design and management in cloud-based environments
Experience with designing logical and physical data models
Strong communication and leadership skills with experience influencing departmental and senior business stakeholders
Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Information Systems, or a related field
TOGAF certification is a plus
Preferred
MSc Computer Science/Information Management, Post graduate degree is preferred
Experience in architecting a Data Mesh is preferred
Experience with Data & SAP Integration
Experience in defining or building Event-Driven microservices architecture
Agile Methodology and/or Scrum
ArchiMate Modeling, BiZZdesign
Experience with agentic AI, machine learning
TOGAF certification is a plus
17+ years of relevant work experience; 3+ years leading teams and/or projects
Company
Ahold Delhaize USA
Ahold Delhaize USA provides retail media solutions for brands to advertise to grocery shoppers across ADUSA brands using data-driven tools.
10001+ employees
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