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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Lead Enterprise Architect, Engineering Excellence - **Company:** Ahold Delhaize Usa - **Location:** Quincy, MA, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $160,000.0 - $240,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** UML, Archimate, Technical Debt, Togaf, Devsecops - **Published:** July 17, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=c9dfda08225c978c ## About the Role * Bachelor's degree or equivalent years of work experience. * 12+ years in architecture with demonstrated leadership across complex, multi domain portfolios. * Expertise in enterprise architecture practices (principles, standards, governance), roadmap development, and cost/value modeling. * Exceptional communication, executive influence, and decision framing skills. Preferred Qualifications * Experience with architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF), modeling (e.g., ArchiMate/UML), and portfolio governance. * Background spanning cloud, data, integration, security, and end user domains. ## Description The Lead Enterprise Architect, Engineering Excellence is a senior technology leader with a proven track record of shaping and advancing enterprise engineering strategy, architecture, and operating models to deliver measurable business value. This role defines the architectural vision, standards, guardrails, and reference patterns that enable consistent, scalable, and secure engineering practices across the enterprise. Working across product, engineering, security, operations, and in close partnership with the DevSecOps team, the Lead Architect aligns cross-domain roadmaps and strategic technology direction to strengthen developer productivity, platform enablement, and delivery effectiveness. As the Enterprise Architecture Lead for Engineering Excellence, this role drives the adoption of modern engineering capabilities by influencing technical direction, promoting technical excellence, and establishing the structures that support long-term capability maturity. Through Communities of Practice, cross-cutting ONETech expert teams, and Centers of Excellence, the role fosters the adoption of best practices, guides capability uplift across delivery teams, and ensures architectural direction is grounded in operational realities. In doing so, the Lead Architect strengthens enterprise engineering capability, improves consistency and governance, and enables sustainable value realization at scale., * Aligns enterprise technology strategy and roadmaps to business objectives and multi-year funding plans. * Defines enterprise blueprints that synthesize business, information, application, integration, infrastructure, and security viewpoints. * Establishes architecture principles, reference architectures, technology standards, and rationalization guidelines. * Chairs enterprise design authority/governance to guide decisions on scope, quality, risk, and total cost of ownership. * Measures the value of enterprise architecture services; reports outcomes, adoption, and technical debt trends. * Advises executives on industry trends and emerging technologies; shapes build/buy/retire decisions. * Mentors principal/solution/domain architects; raises architecture maturity, methods, and tooling across Tech. * Drives alignment across major transformation initiatives, ensuring architecture consistency across portfolios, domains, and strategic programs. * Partners with product, engineering, and platform leaders to embed architecture practices into delivery, ensuring solutions adhere to enterprise standards and long-term technology strategy. * May be called upon to support critical escalations and must be available during urgent IT incidents as needed. ## Related Videos - [We (don't) need a software architect!?!](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/663-we-don-t-need-a-software-architect) - [ChatGPT and Java: A Match Made in Heaven or Hell?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/536-chatgpt-and-java-a-match-made-in-heaven-or-hell) - [Communicate efficiently with Software Architecture Diagrams](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/379-communicate-efficiently-with-software-architecture-diagrams) - [Beyond UML: Making Sense of AI-Generated Code through Visual Architecture](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/2102-beyond-uml-making-sense-of-ai-generated-code-through-visual-architecture) - [Blueprints for Success: Steering a Global Data & AI Architecture](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1577-blueprints-for-success-steering-a-global-data-ai-architecture) - [Beyond micro-services, embrace composable architecture !](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1188-beyond-micro-services-embrace-composable-architecture) ## Related Articles - [Why Event-Driven Architecture Isn’t About Speed (and When You Actually Need It)](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/745-why-event-driven-architecture-isn-t-about-speed-and-when-you-actually-need-it) - [Dev Digest 162: AI careers, MCP, AWS best practices & floppy sweaters](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/571-dev-digest-162-ai-careers-mcp-aws-best-practices-floppy-sweaters) - [Best US AI Conferences for CTOs in 2026: Build vs. Buy, Vendor Evaluation, and Peer Intelligence](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/736-best-us-ai-conferences-for-ctos-in-2026-build-vs-buy-vendor-evaluation-and-peer-intelligence) - [Dev Digest 120 - Apple and peers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/455-dev-digest-120-apple-and-peers) - [Making Data Warehouses Fast: A Developer’s Story](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/107-making-data-warehouses-fast-a-developer-s-story) - [Top Must-Visit Developer Conferences in the US in 2026](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/679-top-must-visit-developer-conferences-in-the-us-in-2026)