Enterprise Architect

• Job Reference Code: R-101214
• Employment Type: Full time
• Contract Type: Permanent
• Hours per Week: 37.5
• Salary: Competitive Salary plus benefits
• Closing Date: 5 August 2026

Enterprise Architect Technology

We are looking for an experienced Enterprise Architect to lead the technology architecture across Asda's customer-facing digital estate, including Grocery Home Shopping, George.com, Customer platforms.

This role is responsible for defining the technology strategy, target architectures and transformation roadmap that underpin Asda's digital commerce ambitions. The successful candidate will play a key leadership role in shaping the future of online retail at Asda, including the strategic migration of Grocery Home Shopping capabilities to the Ocado platform ecosystem.

What You'll Love

• Define and own the technology strategy and architecture roadmap for eCommerce and Customer platforms.

• Provide architectural leadership for Asda's Grocery Home Shopping transformation and migration to the Ocado platform.

• Develop target-state, transition and integration architectures that support 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 including API-led, event-driven and cloud-native patterns.

• Drive simplification of the technology estate, reducing technical debt and improving platform re-use.

• Act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders on digital commerce and customer technology strategy.

What You'll Need

You'll be a strategic technology leader with deep experience delivering architecture across large-scale digital, retail or eCommerce environments.

You'll bring:

• Significant Enterprise Architecture experience within digital, customer or eCommerce domains.

• Strong knowledge of online retail, customer experience and digital commerce platforms.

• Experience leading complex transformation programmes and large technology roadmaps.

• Expertise in architecture governance, operating models, technology strategy and roadmap development.

• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence at executive level.

• Experience designing highly resilient, scalable and integrated platforms.

• Broad knowledge of cloud technologies, integration patterns, data platforms and modern engineering practices.

• An ability to balance strategic thinking with practical delivery outcomes.

Desirable Experience

• Grocery eCommerce or omnichannel retail experience.

• Experience of large-scale platform migration programmes.

• Knowledge of customer identity, loyalty, personalisation and digital marketing ecosystems.

• Experience working with strategic technology partners and third-party platform providers.

• Exposure to Ocado or similar modern commerce and fulfilment platforms.

Why Join Asda?

This is an opportunity to shape the future of one of the UK's largest retail transformation programmes. You'll influence the architecture that supports millions of customer interactions, lead strategic technology decisions and play a critical role in the evolution of Asda's digital commerce platforms.

Working in a highly visible leadership role, you'll help define how customers shop with Asda online for years to come.

Everything you'll love

To ensure we balance moments where we know we need to collaborate together and the need for flexibility, Asda has a hybrid way of working with a minimum 3 days a week in one of our Home Offices. Over and above this, each area of Asda may have additional requirements which may require spending more days in the office, visiting suppliers, stores or depots.

You will also get an excellent benefits package including:

• Discretionary company bonus

• Company pension up 1.5 times colleagues' contribution (Max 15%)

• Company Car allowance of £8000

• 15% colleague discount in store and online

• Free access to wellbeing services such as Stream, 24/7 virtual GP, counselling, health and dental cash plans and a 24/7 employee assistance helpline, alongside discounts across a range of services and activities, from airport parking, enhanced to theme parks and cinemas.

• Asda Allies Inclusion Networks – helping colleagues to make sure everybody is included and that our differences are recognised and celebrated

• Excellent parental leave policies, including maternity & adoption leave, paternity leave, shared parental leave, neonatal care leave, and support for those doing fertility treatments.

We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work, every day. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be Proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves

Find your everything

Location

Great Wilson Street, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom, LS11 5AD View directions

Why Asda?

We’re a really values-led organisation. Our mission means we encourage everyone to be open and honest. We work creatively and collaboratively with each other, valuing everyone’s input. We get on with things, we make them happen. As so many people across the UK rely on us, we have to.

Our Creating Change for Better programme tackles the major challenges facing our business and society today and guides our efforts on where we can make the biggest difference by reducing our environmental footprint, creating healthier products and supporting our communities.

Big businesses like ours offer big opportunities. With more than 1,000 stores across the UK, from superstores and Asda Living to petrol stations, as well as depots and Express stores. £60m+ in revenue taken every day. We conduct £300m worth of transactions every week. Our website handles 2 million transactions a month. And 75% of the UK shop in Asda every year.

Rewards and Recognition

Benefits you’ll only find here

10% off Asda pet insurance

10% off selected Asda Pharmacy services

10% off Asda Tyres

10% off Asda Travel insurance

20% off Asda Mobile bundles

Free remote GP service

Available to you, your partner and your children, 24/7, year round.

Pension

Save for retirement with contributions paid into your pension account by you and Asda.

Free physiotherapy consultations

Helping you and your partner take care of yourselves with 8 free sessions per year.

Colleague discounts

15% off at our stores - get discounts on groceries and George all year round.

Car cash allowance

Eligible colleagues will receive a cash allowance as part of their benefits package. In addition, all salaried colleagues can choose to register for the Salary Sacrifice Electric Car scheme*.

(*Conditions apply)

Mortgage advice

Whether you’re a first-time buyer, renewing your mortgage, looking at buy to lets, or simply after some advice in getting a mortgage, get free* unbiased advice through the Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB), one the UKs largest mortgage brokers.

Confidential support helpline

Find free emotional, practical, and financial support that’s fully confidential, through a helpline that’s available 24/7, year round.

Cycle to work

Buy a bike through this scheme and save on tax and national insurance.

Financial support

Find financial wellbeing tools and support, including the ability to stream your pay.

Free eye tests

Head to our in store opticians for a free checkup and take care of your vision.

Bonus

Sharing our success with a discretionary bonus scheme for salaried colleagues that really rewards your contributions.

Cancer support

Guidance and support for you and your family, from before diagnosis, to treatment and beyond.

Paid time off

From holiday to sick leave and other types of leave, such as parental leave.

Mental health support

Access free mental health support for you and your family.

Support and advice with care

If you’re supporting older family or friends with care and support, find free, confidential information, expert support, and guidance about later life care for your loved ones through the Legal & General Care Concierge service.

Hybrid working

To ensure we balance moments where we know we need to collaborate together and the need for flexibility, Asda has a hybrid way of working with a minimum 3 days a week in one of our Home Offices. Each area of Asda may have additional requirements which may require spending more days in the office, visiting suppliers, stores or depots

Save money on every day spends

Access to hundreds of high-street discounted Vouchers, discounts on days out, gym memberships, airport parking, and more

Setting your loved ones up for the future

As part of the team, you’ll get life assurance.

Guaranteed contracted hours

All colleagues are guaranteed weekly contracted hours / guaranteed weekly shifts via their contract of employment which is agreed with the hiring manager.

Holiday buying

Once a year our salaried colleagues are able to buy up to 5 additional days holiday via salary sacrifice (subject to eligibility).