Enterprise Architect - Enabling Functions

Enterprise Architect - Enabling Functions

Job Summary:

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.

In this job, I am accountable for:

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 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 I work with in and outside of Tesco:

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 dunnHumby
Suppliers and 3rd parties

People, budgets and other resources I am accountable for in my job:

N/A (direct influence on major strategic investments as part of role)

Operational skills relevant for this job:

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 it's 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