Enterprise Architect - Data

Enterprise Architect - Data
Job Summary:
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

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 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 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.

Key people and teams I work with in and outside of Tesco:
Head of Enterprise Architecture
Day-to-day engagement with Engineering teams and directors
Particular engagement with the Analytics and Data Science teams
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:

No People of Budget responsibility, but 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 especially in the Data Science and Data Warehouse areas
Technical Writing (Standards, Whitepapers & Cookbooks)
Data management methods across the data lifecycle, and for different types of data (e.g. master, reference, transactional, analytical etc.)

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:

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 it's 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