Domain Architect

hackajob is collaborating with Sainsbury's DTD to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role. We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. Think about the scale it takes to feed the nation. The level of data, transactions and variety involved. Then you’ll realise this is a modern software engineering environment, because it has to be. We’ve made significant investment in the standards and principles that shape how we work. We iterate, learn, experiment and champion ways of working such as Agile, Scrum and XP. So you can look forward to exciting opportunities across everything from AI to reusable tech.

Joining Sainsbury's Tech as our Supply Chain Domain Architect means embarking on an exciting journey to tackle some of the most compelling technology challenges in the retail industry. You will have the opportunity to shape and drive the technology strategy and roadmap for our Supply Chain domain across all our brands. As part of an agile and empowered team, you will collaborate with talented colleagues across Engineering, Product, and Architecture to create innovative, scalable, and future-proof solutions. We foster a culture of collaboration, learning, and ownership, where your expertise and influence will extend across the organisation. With our commitment to ongoing development and the opportunity to work with cutting‑edge technologies, this is an exceptional chance to make a real impact and shape the future of retail technology.

As a Domain Architect at Sainsbury's, you will play a critical role in tackling complex technology problems within the retail industry. You will partner with Heads of Engineering and Product to deliver strategic, big‑picture thinking and define the overall technology direction for a significant area of our business. This involves driving the creation of our north star and technology strategy for our Supply Chain systems as well as ensuring that technical decisions in this space are well informed and meet our technology principles and standards. As a Domain Architect, you will communicate and champion the technology strategy, inspiring colleagues and teams to contribute and align with the overall vision. As a part of a wider team driving the migration of our legacy systems over to modern platforms and solutions, you will be key to ensuring we understand the dependencies across the enterprise and that we collectively produce designs that align to our strategic vision. You will also collaborate with the broader architecture community, sharing expertise and promoting alignment for key strategic initiatives across Sainsbury's Tech. Additionally, you will maintain accurate data about your domain, scan the external environment for innovative perspectives, and influence decision‑making at all levels through your strong communication and influencing skills.

As a Domain Architect for Sainsbury's Tech, you are a highly experienced and influential professional with a proven track record in building and shaping technology strategy. You will have previous experience with Supply Chain and understand how to effectively manage impact, identify the key decisions and drive change. You should have a strong background in developing and implementing domain‑level roadmaps and strategies, in addition to possessing a deep understanding of overall technology principles and standards. Your expertise in evolving architectures, modern engineering practises and business capability modelling allows you to shape the components being developed to drive simplification and graceful evolution over time. As a skilled communicator, you can condense complex technology choices into digestible decisions and influence stakeholders at all levels. Your curiosity, adaptability, and ability to think and plan will make you a valuable asset in navigating the rapidly evolving tech industry and shaping the future landscape of Sainsbury's multi‑brand, multi‑channel organisation.

Essential Criteria:

• Previous experience of creating a technology strategy or setting a north star at an enterprise level or for a large segment of an enterprise.
• Solid understanding of retail and the key functionality that would make up our Supply Chain domain.
• Experience in working in the Supply Chain domain, identifying dependencies and driving activities to get answers to the key design decisions that are required.
• Strong track record of influencing stakeholders at director/senior management level.
• A track record of delivering technology transformation by developing influential architecture artefacts (Designs, Decision Records, Transitional Architectures etc.) and can demonstrate the value that they have added.

We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new — whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them:

• Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to save 10% on your shopping online and instore at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat, and we regularly increase the discount to 15% at points during the year.
• We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover.
• You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance‑related bonus of up to 20% of salary, depending on how we perform.
• Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance, and you can buy up to an additional week's holiday, and we provide private healthcare.
• We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, interest free car loan of up to £10k, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, salary advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers.
• And if you ever need it there is also an Employee Assistance Programme.
• Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave.

Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).