Senior Architect - Integration - SAP
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: Holborn Store Support Centre, London, EC1N 2HT
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Sainsbury's Tech
Closing date: 23 May 2025
Requisition ID: 303494
We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. Think about the scale it takes for us to feed the nation. The level of data, transactions and variety it involves. Then you’ll realise that ours is a modern software engineering environment because it has to be. We’ve made serious investment into a Tech Academy and into setting standards and principles. We iterate, learn, experiment and push ways of working such as Agile, Scrum and XP. So you can look forward to awesome opportunities in everything from AI to reusable tech.
Why join us
Joining Sainsbury's Tech means becoming part of a leading, multi-channel, multi-brand retailer where you have the opportunity to shape the technology that powers our business. As a Senior Architect, you will play a vital role in defining the technical roadmap for your area of responsibility, collaborating with engineering teams to design innovative products and services. We foster an agile and empowered work culture that encourages collaboration, innovation, and continuous learning. As part of our inclusive and diverse team, you will have the chance to influence the overall technical architecture, contribute to cloud-native designs, and drive the adoption of cutting-edge technology principles. Join us to make a purposeful contribution, be part of a dynamic and inclusive environment, and embrace the exciting challenges of transforming the retail industry.
What you'll do
As a Senior Architect functional architect in Commercial at Sainsbury's Tech, you will play a crucial role in our Core Commercial Transformation Programme – an SAP S/4HANA implementation. You will primarily be responsible for – but not limited to – working with SAP and our Systems Integrator partner, to define and plan and oversee the functional design and integration across SAP modules and external systems ensuring alignment with business goals and outcomes. Your focus will be on delivering a seamless end-to-end solution by shaping and validating functional architecture, ensuring consistency, scalability, security and reliability. You’ll be instrumental in resolving design challenges, enabling integration across complex landscapes, and contributing to key decisions that influence the overall transformation strategy. You’ll collaborate with fellow Architects and the wider Engineering Community to develop and communicate a coherent technical and functional architecture, roadmap, and strategy. As a valued member of the Architecture Community of Practice, you’ll contribute to shared learning, thought leadership, and innovation across teams. Success in this role requires a strong understanding of large-scale transformation programmes, functional design leadership, stakeholder engagement, and a collaborative mindset. Staying informed about industry trends, applying modern design principles, and fostering effective problem-solving are all key to delivering meaningful and lasting value.
Who you are
We’d love to meet a Senior Architect with:
- 5+ years of Architecture experience, ideally with exposure to large transformation programmes.
- Strong understanding of integration and functional design across enterprise systems.
- Experience with SAP modules and/or the retail industry (preferred but not essential)
- Experience with integration patterns such as Kafka, API, SOAP, and data transformation techniques.
- Solid understanding of security standards.
- Experience with cloud-based solutions and cloud integration (e.g., Azure, AWS, GCP).
- Excellent communication and leadership skills, with the ability to interact with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- A structured, analytical thinker with a collaborative and problem-solving mindset.Self-motivated, proactive, and able to prioritise effectively in a fast-paced environment.
We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer, so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new - whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them: Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave.
Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to get 10% off at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat after 4 weeks. This increases to 15% off at Sainsbury’s every Friday and Saturday and 15% off at Argos every pay day. We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 20% of salary, depending on how we perform.
Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance, and you can buy additional holiday. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, interest free car loan of up to £10k, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, pay advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an Employee Assistance Programme, you will also be eligible for private healthcare too.
Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).
