Your Role 

You'll join a mature practice, working with a team of over 50 Architects in a supportive environment and over a 1000 people in Tech. Asda offer great opportunities for self-development.  

You'll work on a broad portfolio of projects covering Head Office, Store and Depot systems. You'll work closely with third-party suppliers and internal teams.   

• Working with Businesses Analysts and key Business Stakeholders to understand the changing needs of our business and shape the solutions that are needed 
• Consulting models and stakeholders to perform impact analysis and make recommendations on application landscape changes 
• Owning the design for one or more projects and providing technical leadership for the project teams 
• Collaborating closely with roles in Asda Technology and vendor to produce high level designs, using modelling tools, and bringing these through design governance 
• Participating in a thriving and growing architecture community, including peer reviews, consultation and support  

About You 

• Strong Application-focused Solutions Architect 
• Background in IT Application Solution Design 
• Experience in solution design and a real passion for current trends including mobile and cloud technologies (we use Azure) 
• You'll have awareness of architecture frameworks such as TOGAF, but this is desirable and not essential. 
• We use Archimate, so it would help to understand this notation, but training will be provided. 
• Agile experience and awareness of ERP solutions is beneficial. 

Experience in Retail, or at least operating in an enterprise-scale environment is desirable. 

Please note this role has no direct reports, however there could be a possibility to coach or mentor other employees.