Director II, Technology Architecture

Delhaize America - Mauldin, SC

Full-time - Senior

Hybrid - Mauldin, SC

Food and Beverage Retailers

About the position

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.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a team of technology (platform) architects, focusing on delivering Reference Architectures and Decision Frameworks for IT infrastructure and strategy.
• 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.
• Create a high-performing culture that drives business value through technology.
• Recruit, develop and retain a high-performing technology architects.
• Establish a center of architectural excellence within the organization, fostering innovation and embedding architectural thinking in all IT processes.
• Mentor and coach IT architects, ensuring talent development and strong succession planning.
• Challenge and drive changes to improve business performance, increase agility, and optimize resources.
• Lead the development of architecture principles, reference architectures, standards, and reference models for infrastructure and technology.
• Actively participate in operating and steering committee meetings to deliver secure, redundant, and high-performance infrastructure technology stack.
• Govern IT decision-making processes to ensure compliance with architecture principles.
• Define and manage the overarching IT strategy, roadmap, and lifecycle management plan.
• Lead the execution of the IT roadmap, ensuring that architecture principles and target states are achieved.
• Oversee the translation of IT strategy into domain-specific architecture roadmaps.
• Define and govern architecture principles to ensure compliance with security, privacy, and regulatory standards.
• Stay at the forefront of emerging technologies and trends, integrating innovation into the IT strategy.
• Ensure the enterprise architecture's consistency by managing the transition from current to future state.
• Align IT architecture decisions with the financial budget and long-range business plans.

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.
• Influences and leads organization-wide architecture strategy and decisions.
• Solves highly complex and strategically significant architecture challenges.
• Demonstrates high-level strategic thinking, communication, and negotiation skills.

Nice-to-haves

• 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.
• 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.