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Enterprise Architect - Data

Tesco
London
7 months ago
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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 Here to find out more!

  • Annual bonus scheme of up to 45% of base salary
  • 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 the role

At Tesco, we believe in the power of spending more time together, face to face, than apart. So, during your working week, you can expect to spend 60% of your time in one of our office locations or local sites and the rest remotely. We also recognise that life looks a little different for each of us. Some people are at the start of their careers, some want the freedom to do the things they love. Others are going through life-changing moments like becoming a carer, nearing retirement, adapting to parenthood, or something else. That’s why at Tesco, we always welcome a conversation about flexible working. So, talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.

Enterprise Architects at Tesco drive alignment to help Technology collectively deliver a simpler, flexible & sustainable architecture. They define, communicate and govern the enterprise architecture for Tesco in order to ensure it enables and delivers the Tesco Business Strategy. This role is expected to focus primarily on data-architecture-related topics, in addition to more general Enterprise Architecture considerations.

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 data 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
  • Understand the impact of key technology trends like AI and identify the resources, structures and cultural changes 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, particularly from the perspective of the end-to-end data lifecycle
  • 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 Data 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 Stores business and PLC 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
  • Data and Analytics Architecture experience on major programmes
  • Design and management of an organisation's data architecture to meet its strategic needs, providing a blueprint for data engineers to build
  • Ability to articulate and promote the benefits of new technologies
  • Work with new technologies, particularly in the AI and data space, can demonstrate an understanding of the opportunities, the risks and how to test and learn capability
  • Creation, communication and embedding of Technology strategy
  • Leading solution architecture governance / assurance
  • Practical experience with deploying data Science models Hands-on engineering experience

About us

Our vision at Tesco is to become every customer's favourite way to shop, whether they are at home or out on the move. Our core purpose is ‘Serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day’. Serving means more than a transactional relationship with our customers. It means acting as a responsible and sustainable business for all stakeholders, for the communities we are part of and for the planet.

Diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) at Tesco means that whoever you are and whatever your background, we always want you to feel represented and that you can be yourself at work. In short, we’re a place whereEveryone’s Welcome. We’re proud to have been accredited Disability Confident Leader and we’re committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. For further information on the accessibility support we can offer, please click here.

We’re a big business and we can offer a range of diverse full-time & part-time working patterns across our many business areas, which means that we can find something that works for you. We work in a more blended pattern - combining office and remote working. Our offices will continue to be where we connect, collaborate and innovate.

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