Job Description
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 as a Senior Architect means being part of a team that powers a global supply chain and ensures brilliant customer experiences. Through innovative and smart technology, we enable our colleagues to deliver fresh and appealing products to our customers at an unprecedented pace. As a Senior Architect, you will have the opportunity to shape and define the technical roadmap for your capability areas, working closely with engineering teams to design new products and services within an overall architecture. We foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and ownership, allowing you to contribute to cloud-native designs and drive the adoption of our technology principles. With endless learning opportunities, a supportive work environment, and attractive benefits, joining us means being part of a team that solves complex challenges and makes a real impact on our customers' lives while maintaining a healthy work-life balance.
What you'll do
As a Senior Architect at Sainsbury's, you will play a crucial role in planning and defining the technical roadmap for your designated capability areas. Working closely with multiple engineering teams, your responsibilities will include shaping and designing new products and services that align with the overall architecture. You will influence the design and construction of components within your area, ensuring they deliver maximum value towards the roadmap. Additionally, you will contribute to the adoption of technology principles across your area of responsibility and actively share your own learning and expertise within the architecture community. With a strong focus on modern engineering practises and cloud-native design techniques, you will collaborate with product teams to develop architectural roadmaps and blueprints. Your ability to take a holistic view, consider multiple perspectives, and propose creative solutions will be crucial.
Who you are
As a Senior Architect at Sainsbury's, you are a highly skilled professional with a deep understanding of architecture frameworks and the ability to simplify and transform complex business landscapes. Your expertise in evolving architectures and emergent design allows you to develop target and transition states that modernise and simplify the technology landscape for your specific area of responsibility. With your strong knowledge of modern engineering practises and cloud-native design techniques, you collaborate closely with product teams to create conceptual, logical, and physical solution designs that align with architectural roadmaps and blueprints. Your flexible and holistic approach enables you to consider multiple viewpoints and devise creative solutions. With your self-driven nature and constant drive for self-improvement and team success, you contribute to a culture of continuous innovation and improvement. Your strong influencing and communication skills allow you to effectively communicate and advocate for your architectural vision and principles, fostering collaboration and alignment across teams.
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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:
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.
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.
Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).