Tesco UK Welwyn Garden City Hybrid Full-Time Permanent Apply by 15-Aug-2025
About the role
As an Enterprise Architect at Tesco you lead the formulation, development and alignment of new and existing Technology with the Tesco Business Strategy to collectively deliver a simpler, flexible & sustainable architecture. You define, communicate and govern the enterprise architecture for Tesco by creating standards and guidance for Technology programmes and solutions in order to ensure it enables and delivers the Tesco Business Strategy.
What is in it for you
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
- Car allowance of £7,320 per annum
- 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 4 weeks fully paid paternity leave
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 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 Technology strategy across Tesco Technology's functions:
- Partnering technology engineering and product leadership to define 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.
- Supporting portfolio and programme teams to contribute to planning activities utilising our broad understanding of Tesco, its technology landscape and broader industry / technology trends
- 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
- Operate the architecture review, governance and exception processes
- On occasion, provide targeted support for initiatives with technical challenges during their delivery
- 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 solution 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
- Solution Architecture experience on major programmes
- Creation, communication and embedding of Technology strategy
- Leading solution architecture governance / assurance Hands on engineering experience
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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.
We are proud to have an inclusive culture at Tesco where everyone truly feels able to be themselves. At Tesco, we not only celebrate diversity, but recognise the value and opportunity it brings. We're committed to creating a workplace where differences are valued, and make sure that all colleagues are given the same opportunities. 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. If you are applying internally, please speak to the Hiring Manager about how this can work for you - Everyone is welcome at Tesco.