About the role

At Tesco, we believe in the power of spending more time together, face to face, than apart. During your working week, you can expect to spend 60% of your time in office locations or local sites and the rest remotely. We also recognise that life looks different for each of us, and we welcome a conversation about flexible working.

Enterprise Architects at Tesco drive alignment to help Technology collectively deliver a simpler, flexible & sustainable architecture. They define, communicate and govern the enterprise architecture to enable and deliver the Tesco Business Strategy. This role focuses primarily on data-architecture-related topics, in addition to general Enterprise Architecture considerations.

You will be responsible

• 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 understand the bigger picture and their role 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 to improve our business for customers and colleagues in line with business and Technology strategy; understand the impact of key technology trends like AI and identify the resources, structures and cultural changes to support delivery of the enterprise architecture; identify the optimal approach to delivering Tesco business strategy while increasing agility and driving simplicity/cost efficiency
• Contribute to business planning activities using Tesco and broader industry/technology trends; guide high-level delivery planning and solution design to deliver strategic goals while ensuring continuous business value
• Work with other teams to ensure flexible, efficient and secure end-to-end data lifecycle solutions; lead and facilitate the creation of governing principles, policies and standards to guide solution decision making for architecturally significant initiatives; occasionally support successful delivery through the technology lifecycle
• Evolve our federated architecture and design framework as part of the Technology delivery model; build data architecture capability and competency within Tesco in line with agile, DevOps and "architecture is everyone's role" principles
• Create and operate an effective community to engage Technology colleagues in enterprise and data architecture topics; proactively collaborate with Technology colleagues and delivery partners to drive awareness and interest; build relationships with Stores business, the PLC group 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 organization’s data architecture to meet its strategic needs, providing a blueprint for data engineers
• Ability to articulate and promote the benefits of new technologies
• Experience with new technologies, particularly AI and data space, understanding opportunities, risks and how to test and learn capability
• Creation, communication and embedding of Technology strategy
• Leading solution architecture governance/assurance
• Hands-on engineering experience in deploying data science models

What’s in it for you?

We’re all about the little helps. Our Tesco colleague benefits package takes care of you – both in and out of work. Click here to find out more!

• Annual bonus scheme 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% with Tesco contributing 1.5x
• 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 year’s service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay; 4 weeks fully paid paternity leave

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.” We aim to act as a responsible and sustainable business for all stakeholders, communities, and the planet.

Diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) at Tesco means that whoever you are and whatever your background, you can be yourself at work. We are a Disability Confident Leader and committed to a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. We offer diverse full-time and part-time patterns across our business areas and champion blended patterns of office and remote working.