Domain Architect

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Why join us**

Joining Sainsbury's Tech as our Argos 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 across our digital selling channels that power our Argos brand, making a meaningful difference to millions of customers. 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.

What you'll do

• Play a critical role in tackling complex technology problems within the retail industry.
• 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.
• Drive the creation of our north star and technology strategy for our Argos ecommerce and sales systems as well as ensuring that technical decisions in this space are well informed and meet our technology principles and standards.
• Communicate and champion the technology strategy for Argos, inspiring colleagues and teams to contribute and align with the overall vision.
• Collaborate with the broader architecture community, sharing expertise and promoting alignment for key strategic initiatives across Sainsbury's Tech.
• 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.

Who you are

• As a Domain Architect, You'll be highly experienced and influential professional with a proven track record in building and shaping technology strategy.
• This is a fast-paced domain, so you need to be comfortable working in an agile environment and be responsive to the needs of the engineering and product teams.
• You will be working closely with our engineering teams so a good background in software engineering will also be beneficial.
• 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 ahead 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.

Minimum Criteria

• Previous experience of creating a technology strategy or setting a north star at an enterprise or large segment of an enterprise
• 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