{"tool":"get_job","result":{"requisitionId":"535997_external_USA-MA-Quincy","client":"Ahold Delhaize USA - PROD","title":"Lead Enterprise Architect, Engineering Excellence","description":"<b>Category/Area of Expertise:</b> IT & Technology<br><b>Job Requisition:</b> 535997<br> <b>Address: </b>USA-MA-Quincy-1385 Hancock Street <br><b>Store Code: </b>IT Executive & Administration (5167642) <br><br>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.<br><br><strong><span style=\"font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;\">Primary Purpose</span></strong><br><br><span style=\"font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: #0f1818;\">The Lead Enterprise Architect, Engineering Excellence is a senior technology leader with a proven track record of shaping and advancing enterprise engineering strategy, architecture, and operating models to deliver measurable business value. This role defines the architectural vision, standards, guardrails, and reference patterns that enable consistent, scalable, and secure engineering practices across the enterprise. Working across product, engineering, security, operations, and in close partnership with the DevSecOps team, the Lead Architect aligns cross-domain roadmaps and strategic technology direction to strengthen developer productivity, platform enablement, and delivery effectiveness.</span><br><br><span style=\"font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: #0f1818;\">As the Enterprise Architecture Lead for Engineering Excellence, this role drives the adoption of modern engineering capabilities by influencing technical direction, promoting technical excellence, and establishing the structures that support long-term capability maturity. Through Communities of Practice, cross-cutting ONETech expert teams, and Centers of Excellence, the role fosters the adoption of best practices, guides capability uplift across delivery teams, and ensures architectural direction is grounded in operational realities. In doing so, the Lead Architect strengthens enterprise engineering capability, improves consistency and governance, and enables sustainable value realization at scale.</span><br><br><span style=\"font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;\">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.</span><br><br><span style=\"font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;\">Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.</span><br><br><strong><span style=\"font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;\"> </span></strong><br><br><strong><span style=\"font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;\">Duties and Responsibilities</span></strong><br><ul><li><span style=\"font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: black;\">Aligns enterprise technology strategy and roadmaps to business objectives and multi-year funding plans.</span></li><li><span style=\"font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: black;\">Defines enterprise blueprints that synthesize business, information, application, integration, infrastructure, and security viewpoints.</span></li><li><span style=\"font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: black;\">Establishes architecture principles, reference architectures, technology standards, and rationalization guidelines.</span></li><li><span style=\"font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: black;\">Chairs enterprise design authority/governance to guide decisions on scope, quality, risk, and total cost of ownership.</span></li><li><span style=\"font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: black;\">Measures the value of enterprise architecture services; reports outcomes, adoption, and technical debt trends.</span></li><li><span style=\"font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: black;\">Advises executives on industry trends and emerging technologies; shapes build/buy/retire decisions.</span></li><li><span style=\"font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: black;\">Mentors principal/solution/domain architects; raises architecture maturity, methods, and tooling across Tech.</span></li><li><span style=\"font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: black;\">Drives alignment across major transformation initiatives, ensuring architecture consistency across portfolios, domains, and strategic programs.</span></li><li><span style=\"font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: black;\">Partners with product, engineering, and platform leaders to embed architecture practices into delivery, ensuring solutions adhere to enterprise standards and long-term technology strategy.</span></li><li><span style=\"font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: black;\">May be called upon to support critical escalations and must be available during urgent IT incidents as needed.</span></li></ul><br><strong><span style=\"font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;\"> </span></strong><br><br><strong><span style=\"font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;\">Required Qualifications</span></strong><br><ul><li><span style=\"font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: black;\">Bachelor's degree or equivalent years of work experience.</span></li><li><span style=\"font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: black;\">12+ years in architecture with demonstrated leadership across complex, multi domain portfolios.</span></li><li><span style=\"font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: black;\">Expertise in enterprise architecture practices (principles, standards, governance), roadmap development, and cost/value modeling.</span></li><li><span style=\"font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: black;\">Exceptional communication, executive influence, and decision framing skills.</span></li></ul><br><strong><span style=\"font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;\"> </span></strong><br><br><strong><span style=\"font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;\">Preferred Qualifications</span></strong><br><ul><li><span style=\"font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: black;\">Experience with architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF), modeling (e.g., ArchiMate/UML), and portfolio governance.</span></li><li><span style=\"font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: black;\">Background spanning cloud, data, integration, security, and end user domains.</span></li></ul><br><strong><span style=\"font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;\"> </span></strong><br><br><strong><span style=\"font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: black; background-color: white;\">Salary Range:</span></strong><span style=\"font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: black; background-color: white;\"><span style=\"user-select: text; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"> </span><span style=\"user-select: text;\">$160,000 </span><span style=\"user-select: text;\">- $240,000</span></span><span style=\"font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: black; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0in; background-color: #c6c6c6;\"><span style=\"user-select: text; font-variant-ligatures: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; cursor: default;\" data-ccp-props=\"{\"201341983\":0,\"335559731\":720,\"335559739\":0,\"335559740\":240}\"> </span></span><br><br><span style=\"font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;\">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. </span><br><br><span style=\"font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;\">This position is eligible for an incentive bonus based on company performance as provided by the plan terms and governing documents.</span><br><br><span style=\"font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: white;\">#LI-Hybrid #LI-CW1</span><br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.","department":"IT & Technology","departmentId":"669037b7dc60a8004b1930c7","employmentType":[{"value":"Full Time"}],"datePosted":"2026-07-15T00:00:00.000Z","applyUrl":"https://aholddelhaizeapply.appvault.com/external/home?jobId=535997&company=Ahold Delhaize USA Services, LLC","attributes":[""],"recruiterAssigned":null,"address":[{"city":"Quincy","state":"MA","country":"USA","zipCode":"","address1":"1385 Hancock Street","location":{"type":"Point","coordinates":["",""]}}],"city":"Quincy","state":"MA","zipCode":"","country":"USA","salaryMin":"NaN","salaryMax":"NaN","salRateType":null,"brandId":1037378,"createdAt":"2026-07-15T00:00:00.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-07-15T23:03:29.902Z"},"summary":"Job details for Lead Enterprise Architect, Engineering Excellence"}