Principal Enterprise Architect, Core Retail Systems

Location: 300 South Riverside Plaza, Chicago, IL. Primary Purpose Sets the enterprise technology vision and operating model, orchestrating cross domain roadmaps, standards, and governance to ensure technology investments deliver measurable business value. Duties and Responsivities Aligns enterprise technology strategy and roadmaps to business objectives and multiyear funding plans. Defines enterprise blueprints that synthesize business, information, application, integration, infrastructure, and security viewpoints. Establishes architecture principles, reference architectures, technology standards, and rationalization guidelines. Chairs enterprise design authority/governance to guide decisions on scope, quality, risk, and total cost of ownership. Measures the value of enterprise architecture services; reports outcomes, adoption, and technical debt trends. Advises executives on industry trends and emerging technologies; shapes build/buy/retire decisions. Mentors principal/solution/domain architects; raises architecture maturity, methods, and tooling across Tech. Drives alignment across major transformation initiatives, ensuring architecture consistency across portfolios, domains, and strategic programs. Partners with product, engineering, and platform leaders to embed architecture practices into delivery, ensuring solutions adhere to enterprise standards and long-term technology strategy. Qualifications Bachelor's degree or equivalent years of work experience. 12+ years in architecture with demonstrated leadership across complex, multi domain portfolios. Expertise in enterprise architecture practices (principles, standards, governance), roadmap development, and cost/value modeling. Exceptional communication, executive influence, and decision framing skills. Strong understanding of GenAI & Agentic patterns, including RAG, fine‑tuning, prompt engineering, agent orchestration, and model serving approaches. Preferred Qualifications Experience with architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF), modeling (e.g., ArchiMate/UML), and portfolio governance. Background spanning cloud, data, integration, security, and end user domains. Salary Salary Range: $163,280 – $244,920 Other Information Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full‑time basis. Our flexible/hybrid work schedule includes 3 in‑person days at one of our core locations and 2 remote days. Our core office locations are Salisbury, NC, Chicago, IL, & Quincy, MA. #J-18808-Ljbffr Ahold Delhaize USA