AD Corporate Support Looking for Manager – Platform Architect Finance Platform at Salisbury, NC Full Time

Address: USA-NC-Salisbury-2110 Executive Drive

Store Code: Portfolio Mgmt & Proj Delivery (19685)

Ahold Delhaize is one of the world’s largest food retail groups and a leader in both supermarkets and e-Commerce. Its family of great, local brands serves more than 50 million customers each week in Europe, the United States and Indonesia. Together, these brands employ more than 420,000 associates in more than 7,000 grocery and specialty stores. Our Global Support Office (GSO) is based in Zaandam in the Netherlands, but GSO associates also work in all the countries we serve. This team supports all our great local brands in finance, HR, IT, legal, communications, sustainable retailing, and other key functions. .

Job Objective

The Platform architect is responsible for the architecture of a specific platform. He/she has elaborate and substantive experience and knowledge regarding the subject matters of a specific platform. He/she is responsible for:

Interaction with Enterprise Architects, Product Cluster Architects and Tech Leads to ensure architectural compliance with the business and tech strategy and target enterprise architecture

Setting-up and maintaining technology roadmaps for his/her platform

Ensuring that product architecture meets business requirements

Knowledge leader on the various technological components work together to deliver the desired functionality, the roadmap (technical and business) for the platform

Interaction with the key business domains to ensure business/ technology alignment.

Tasks and responsibilities

1. Take a leadership role in the management of the Technology platform architecture

• Drive the transformation of the technology department to meet the needs of the changing business demands and to platform for growth and efficiency
• Implement governance framework covering principles, procedures and processes and monitor KPI’s for specified platform
• Identify and evaluate platform risks and participate in defining mitigation and control activities

2. Define and manage platform technology roadmap for a specific business or technology platform in line with Tech strategy and overarching Enterprise Architecture roadmap

• Define the architecture target state and roadmap for a specific platform
• Consult operating unit Business on overall Portfolio and Investment plans based on the Architecture Roadmap
• Support Enterprise Architecture to provide input into strategic roadmap and global architecture
• Proactively stay abreast of emerging trends and technologies and incorporate in technology platform target state and roadmap
• Develop and maintain an overall platform architecture roadmap. Integrate product architectures into the as-is platform architecture for future baseline references
• Contribute to cross regional or Global Architecture Strategy

3. Responsible for making sure the platform architecture has a mix of satisfactory and sufficient levels of a mix of the following properties: Simple, Resilient, Maintainable and Evolvable

• Translate business requirements into the platform technology architecture and product architecture deliverables

o Ensure license efficiency

o Comply with vendor strategy guidelines

o Design future proof and scalable products

o Consult with peer group on integration of platforms

o Taking into account transition planning from > to

o Conduct continuous improvement analysis on existing application and infrastructure technologies and its ability to support the business requirements, and feedback to the enterprise architect.

o Incorporating relevant market trends and technology trends

o Incorporating the technology service catalogue

o Enable ‘innovation by design’

• Provide architecture consultation and guidance in early program/product phases
• Provide technical oversight for all the Product Cluster Architects and Tech Leads
• Cultivate and disseminate knowledge of application-usage best practices
• Accountable for inter-platform technical direction and decisions within their platform
• Steer and guard overall technology architecture working with multiple product Teams
• Ensure all security and compliance aspects are taken into account in local architecture (secure by design, compliant by design)
• Take part in the guilds concerning Architecture to spread best-practices and knowledge within GSO Tech and lead by example

4. Responsible for technology financial management of portfolio and drive down the TCO whilst meeting the business capability requirements

• Ensure spending will be within budget (TCO) and report to management
• Extract the value from existing systems, only investing in replacement when it is requirement for business continuity or to deliver a business requirement
• Encourage creativity on delivering simple products that deliver the business needs fast
• Work with the platform/product owners to balance tradeoffs between speed to market, cost, risk and quality
• Stay abreast of emerging technologies and the potential applicability to GSO Tech
• Proactively propose initiative to the business and the technology MT to increase the cost efficiency of delivery and maintenance of applications

Context

Scope is GSO Tech and Global

All activities are performed based under general guidance of Global technology Strategy

Work with local and global technology Partners of Ahold Delhaize

Criteria

• Drive design & planning across one business with the technology platform
• Facilitating Executive Business Management
• Serves as primary architect on large and complex platforms (
• Responsible for all the products in the platform
• Focus is on advising senior management and designing & planning strategic change across the domain as a whole
• Oversee architecture domains in two business or all technology products within a platform
• Lead of one Program Architecture Delivery
• Financial management
• Demonstrated ability to conceptualize, launch and deliver multiple complex technology programs on time and within budget
• Experience proposing and implementing wide architecture initiatives
• Subject expertise of the 1 or more business and architecture domains
• Functional coach of Architects and act as domain or technology expert
• Head of 1 business or all technology product architects
• Maintains platform risk and Governance framework

Requirements

• Relevant Master’s degree. Post-graduate is preferred
• 10 years of relevant experience
• Elaborate management experience
• Fluent English (word and writing)

The GSO sets global strategies frameworks, facilitates the sharing of best practice and encourages economies of scale. Great examples include sharing technology and digital know-how, so we can continue to lead in online and in-store retailing, setting global targets for healthy and sustainable products-including reducing food waste, use of plastics and making our products healthier to use and eat, and championing development for our future leaders-from learning about the digital mindset to leading our stores of the future.

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We are an equal opportunity employer. We comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws. Qualified applicants are considered without regard to sex, race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, marital status (including civil unions), military service, veteran status, pregnancy (including childbirth and related medical conditions), genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, legally recognized disability, domestic violence victim status or any other characteristic protected by law.

Job Requisition: 273236_external_USA-NC-Salisbury_1132022