Enterprise Architect - Data Architect
| Posting date: | 29 November 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 20 December 2024 |
| Location: | None, None |
| Company: | Tesco |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | tesco/TP/6595786/920518 |
Summary
About the role
At Tesco, we believe in the power of spending more time together, face to face, than apart. So, during your working week, you can expect to spend 60% of your time in one of our office locations or local sites and the rest remotely. We also recognise that life looks a little different for each of us. Some people are at the start of their careers, some want the freedom to do the things they love. Others are going through life-changing moments like becoming a carer, nearing retirement, adapting to parenthood, or something else. That’s why at Tesco, we always welcome a conversation about flexible working. So, talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.
Enterprise Architects at Tesco drive alignment to help Technology collectively deliver a simpler, flexible & sustainable architecture. They define, communicate and govern the enterprise architecture for Tesco in order to ensure it enables and delivers the Tesco Business Strategy. This role is expected to focus primarily on data-architecture-related topics, in addition to more general Enterprise Architecture considerations.
You will be responsible for
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 to understand the bigger picture and their role / activities 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 that will improve our business for customers and colleagues in line with our business and Technology strategy and plans
- Understand the impact of key technology trends like AI and identify the resources, structures and cultural changes to support the delivery of the enterprise architecture
- Identify the optimal approach to delivering Tesco business strategy while increasing agility and driving simplicity / cost efficiency over the short, medium and long-term.
- Contribute to business planning activities utilising our broad understanding of Tesco and broader industry / technology trends
Guiding high-level delivery planning and solution design to deliver our strategic goals whilst ensuring we continuously deliver business value
- Work in collaboration other teams to help ensure we design flexible, efficient and secure solutions, particularly from the perspective of the end-to-end data lifecycle
- Lead and facilitate the creation of governing principles, policies, standards etc. to guide solution decision making for architecturally significant initiatives - On occasion supporting successful delivery by providing targeted support through the technology lifecycle, delivering business value and realising strategic goals.
Evolving our federated architecture and design framework as part of the Technology delivery model
- Build Data architecture capability and competency within Tesco in keeping with our emphasis on agile, DevOps and \'architecture is everyone\'s role\' principles
- Create and operate an effective community to engage and educate Technology colleagues in enterprise and data architecture topics
- Proactively collaborate and communicate with Technology colleagues and delivery partners to drive awareness and interest
- Build effective relationships with our Stores business and PLC group colleagues, 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 organisation\'s data architecture to meet it\'s strategic needs, providing a blueprint for data engineers to build
- Ability to articulate and promote the benefits of new technologies
- Work with new technologies, particularly in the AI and data space, can demonstrate an understanding of the opportunities, the risks and how to test and learn capability
- Creation, communication and embedding of Technology strategy
- Leading solution architecture governance / assurance
- Practical experience with deploying data Science models Hands on engineering experience
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What’s in it for you
We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we make sure our Tesco colleague benefits package takes care of you – both in and out of work. Click Here to find out more!
- Annual bonus scheme of up to 45% of base salary
- Car Cash Allowance
- Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
- Private medical insurance
- Retirement savings plan - save between 6% - 10% and Tesco will contribute 1.5 times this amount
- 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 years’ service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 6 weeks fully paid paternity leave
About us
Tesco has become a market leader by doing the little things that really matter for our customers and colleagues.
It’s part of what makes Tesco such a great place to work, and we’re proud to have been accredited as one of Britain’s Top Employers again this year.
We're the UK's number one retailer and we pride ourselves on offering a great shopping experience. We are passionate about our food, merchandise and services and will always try to get things right for our customers.
But did you know we also offer great job opportunities? With stores, distribution centres and offices across the UK, and a vast variety of roles, we are always looking for people who have a hunger to work with customers and colleagues across our exciting business.
We believe in treating each other with respect and giving everyone an equal opportunity to get on. It's our people that make the difference every day - helping us make a difference for our customers
Should you be successful in your application, your offer will be subject to and conditional upon you providing your bank account details before your agreed start date.
For more information about us please visit www.tescoplc.com
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