Enterprise Architect - 12m FTC

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 an Enterprise 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 work on some of our highest priority initiatives that impact large parts of our technology estate. Our Enterprise Architects work end‑to‑end in shaping our technology, driving our design choices and influencing key stakeholders to meet our business goals. 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 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 an Enterprise Architect at Sainsbury's, you will play a critical role in tackling complex technology problems within the retail industry. To deliver our high priority initiatives we need solutions that cross many parts of our technology estate, from customer‑facing sales systems, through supply‑chain and logistics systems, and into our commercial and finance systems. You need to understand the end‑to‑end impact, develop value streams, and work closely with product and engineering to move solutions into delivery. This role will focus on our customer and loyalty domain and the impacts that innovation in this space will have on our wider technology estate. You will have a key role in helping teams across our technology division stay aligned to our strategic vision and deliver real change by driving the realisation of key initiatives across our nectar loyalty platforms and marketing technology. We expect you to own solving problems and be a great communicator to bring people along with you. You will be guided by our Sainsbury’s technology principles, north stars and strategies and will be a champion in promoting their value and ensuring we are doing the right thing for Sainsbury’s and our customers.

As an Enterprise Architect for Sainsbury's Tech, you are a highly experienced and influential professional with a proven track record creating high‑level solutions in a large and complex enterprise estate. You will have experience in using and developing architecture models and tools across business, data, application and technology architecture. You will be a confident communicator who can effectively facilitate groups of colleagues to align on a solution. You will condense complex technology choices into digestible decisions and influence stakeholders at all levels. Your curiosity, adaptability and ability to plan 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

• 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.
• Solid understanding of retail technology and the key functionality that goes into a loyalty platform.
• Experience working with product, engineering, delivery and architecture teams to deliver enterprise‑impacting technology transformations.
• Strong track record of influencing stakeholders at director/senior management level.

Benefits

We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer, so you’ll be welcomed whatever 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. Key benefits include: colleague discount (10‑15% on Sainsbury’s, Argos, TU and Habitat), pensions scheme, life cover and potential performance‑related bonus up to 20% of salary. Your wellbeing is important to us: annual holiday allowance (with up to one additional week purchasable), private healthcare, season ticket loans, interest‑free car loan up to £10k, cycle‑to‑work scheme, health cash plans, salary advance, extensive retailer discounts and an Employee Assistance Programme. Family benefits: 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).