Director II, Technology Architecture

Introduction

Ahold Delhaize USA, a division of global food retailer Ahold Delhaize, is part of the U.S. family of brands, which also includes five leading omnichannel grocery brands - Food Lion, Giant Food, The GIANT Company, Hannaford and Stop & Shop. Ahold Delhaize USA associates support the brands with a wide range of services, including Finance, Legal, Sustainability, Commercial, Digital and E-commerce, Technology and more.

Overview

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.

Primary Purpose

The Director II, Technology Architecture is responsible for defining and leading the infrastructure and technology architecture strategy and governance across ADUSA. This role involves managing a broad scope, directly engaging with senior leadership, and guiding large-scale architecture decisions across both infrastructure and technology. The role provides leadership for enterprise architecture, IT strategy, solution delivery, and risk management, while ensuring the highest levels of compliance, security, and operational excellence.

Our flexible/ hybrid work schedule includes 3 in-person days at one of our core locations and 2 remote days. Our core office locations include Salisbury, NC, Chicago, IL, Quincy, MA, Carlisle, PA, Scarborough, ME, Hyattsville, MD and Mauldin, SC.

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a team of technology (platform) architects, focusing on delivering Reference Architectures and Decision Frameworks for IT infrastructure and strategy for the largest grocery retailer on the East Coast, serving millions of omnichannel customers each week.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders across various business functions to create technology strategies, roadmaps, and standards that align with company goals.
• Translate complex business needs into cutting-edge IT solutions, ensuring these architectures solve critical business challenges and meet industry standards and compliance.
• Responsible for making architecture decisions, guiding system design and development involving servers, private/public cloud, storage, networking, virtualization, and security.
• Responsible for the continuous improvement of the current architecture, including modernization, hardware refresh, and system consolidation.
• Lead major enterprise architecture initiatives, ensuring alignment with operational strategies and successful delivery from planning to execution.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, or a related field; advanced certifications (e.g., TOGAF, ITIL) are preferred.
• 13 years of relevant working experience, 5 years leading teams.
• Extensive experience in enterprise architecture strategy, leadership, and governance.
• Works under broad direction, operating with significant responsibility for defining and delivering the enterprise architecture strategy. Has substantial personal authority and autonomy to set architecture policies and direction.
• Influences and leads organization-wide architecture strategy and decisions. Directly engages with executive and senior leadership to secure buy-in and alignment across business units.
• Solves highly complex and strategically significant architecture challenges, integrating both legacy and new technologies to achieve business objectives.
• Demonstrates high-level strategic thinking, communication, and negotiation skills. Plays a leading role in shaping long-term business and IT strategy.
• Preferred Qualifications
• Post graduate degree advanced training and or certifications in relevant field/s of study preferred.
• 5 or more years' experience in Agile teams and Product/Platform based operating model, Practical Experience in Agile Architecture.
• Experience in retail or grocery.
• Knowledge of DevOps processes (including CI/CD) and Infrastructure as code fundamentals.
• Consultancy Skills.
• Experienced in Agile Architecture and ArchiMate Modeling.

ME/NC/PA/SC Salary Range: $160,000 - $242,400

IL/MA/MD/NY Salary Range: $184,000 - $278,760

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