Lead Enterprise Architect, Strategy

Category/Area of Expertise: IT & Technology
Job Requisition: 488197

Address: USA-IL-Chicago-300 South Riverside Plaza
Store Code: IT Executive & Administration (5167642)


Ahold Delhaize USA, a division of global food retailer Ahold Delhaize, is part of the U.S. family of brands, which includes five leading omnichannel grocery brands - Food Lion, Giant Food, The GIANT Company, Hannaford and Stop & Shop. Our associates support the brands with a wide range of services, including Finance, Legal, Sustainability, Commercial, Digital and E-commerce, Technology and more.

Primary Purpose

In the role of Lead Enterprise Architect, Strategy, you will spearhead the development, implementation, and governance of ADUSA's enterprise IT strategy and architecture, ensuring alignment with our business strategy and vision. This position calls for a forward-thinking leader who will set the destination and architecture runway and guardrails to guide the IT organization.


We are seeking a candidate with a strong engineering mindset and extensive architectural experience, who can offer visionary leadership and articulate strategic guidance. Your expertise will be instrumental in fostering a culture of technical excellence, innovation, and continual improvement across the IT organization.

Sets the enterprise technology vision and operating model, orchestrating cross domain roadmaps, standards, and governance to ensure technology investments deliver measurable business value.

Our flexible/hybrid work schedule "])self.__next_f.push([1,"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.

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis


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.

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 Range: $160,000- $240,000

All ADUSA job offers take multiple factors into consideration including, but not limited to salary range, internal equity, a candidate's qualifications, geographic region, job-related knowledge and skills.


This position is eligible for an incentive bonus based on company performance as provided by the plan terms and governing documents.

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At Ahold Delhaize USA, we provide services to one of the largest portfolios of grocery companies in the nation, and we're actively seeking top talent.

Our team shares a common motivation to drive change, take ownership and enable our brands to better care for their customers. We thrive on supporting great local grocery brands and their strategies.

Our associates are the heartbeat of our organization. We are committed to offering a welcoming work environment where all associates can succeed and thrive. Guided by our values of courage, care, teamwork, integrity (and even a little humor), we are dedicated to being a great place to work.

We believe in collaboration, curiosity, and continuous learning in all that we think, create and do. While building a culture where personal and professional growth are just as important as business growth, we invest in our people, empowering them to learn, grow and deliver at all levels of the business.