Enterprise Architect – Digital Commerce

About the role

ASDA is seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect to lead the technology architecture of its customer‑facing digital estate, including Grocery Home Shopping, George.com and other customer platforms. You will define the technology strategy, target architectures and transformation roadmap that support ASDA’s digital commerce ambitions.

Key responsibilities

• Define and own the technology strategy and architecture roadmap for eCommerce and customer platforms.
• Provide architectural leadership for the Grocery Home Shopping transformation and migration to the Ocado platform ecosystem.
• Develop target‑state, transition and integration architectures that enable business growth and digital transformation.
• Govern technology decisions, architecture standards and solution designs across the domain.
• Partner with business and technology stakeholders to shape investment priorities and strategic initiatives.
• Promote modern architectural approaches such as API‑led, event‑driven and cloud‑native patterns.
• Drive simplification of the technology estate, reduce technical debt and improve platform reuse.
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders on digital commerce and customer technology strategy.

Required profile

• Significant Enterprise Architecture experience within digital, customer or eCommerce domains.
• Strong knowledge of online retail, customer experience and digital commerce platforms.
• Proven experience leading complex transformation programmes and large technology roadmaps.
• Expertise in architecture governance, operating models, technology strategy and roadmap development.
• Excellent stakeholder management and executive‑level influencing skills.
• Experience designing highly resilient, scalable and integrated platforms.

Required skills

• API‑led architecture
• Event‑driven architecture
• Cloud‑native patterns
• Cloud technologies
• Integration patterns
• Data platforms