Domain Architect

• Partner with our Heads of Engineering and Product to define the overall technology direction for a significant area of our business.
• Create and drive the north star, technology strategy, and roadmap for our Supply Chain systems.
• Ensure technical decisions are well informed and align with our technology principles and standards.
• Communicate and champion our technology strategy, helping colleagues and teams contribute to and align with the vision.
• Help lead the migration of legacy systems to modern platforms and solutions, identifying enterprise dependencies and ensuring designs align with our strategic vision.
• Collaborate with our wider architecture community, sharing expertise and promoting alignment on key strategic initiatives.
• Maintain accurate information about the Supply Chain domain and scan the external environment for innovative perspectives.
• Influence decision-making across our organisation through strong communication and stakeholder engagement.

• Were looking for someone with experience creating an enterprise-level technology strategy or defining a north star for a large part of an enterprise.
• You should have a solid understanding of retail and the key capabilities within a Supply Chain domain.
• We need experience working in Supply Chain, identifying dependencies, and driving activities to resolve key design decisions.
• You should have a strong track record of influencing director- and senior-management-level stakeholders.
• Were looking for a track record of delivering technology transformation through influential architecture artefacts, such as designs, decision records, and transitional architectures, with demonstrable value.
• We value expertise in evolving architectures, modern engineering practices, business capability modelling, and technology principles and standards.
• Strong communication skills are important, including the ability to explain complex technology choices clearly and influence stakeholders at all levels.

At Sainsburys Tech, we work in a modern software engineering environment shaped by significant investment in standards, principles, and our Tech Academy. We iterate, learn, and experiment, using approaches such as Agile, Scrum, and XP, and work across opportunities ranging from AI to reusable technology. As our Supply Chain Domain Architect, youll help shape technology strategy and the roadmap across our brands, collaborating with colleagues in Engineering, Product, and Architecture. Were committed to inclusion, ongoing development, flexible working where possible, and recognising colleagues contributions. Benefits include colleague discounts at Sainsburys, Argos, TU, and Habitat; a pension scheme and life cover; a performance-related bonus that may be up to 20% of salary; annual holiday allowance with the option to buy an additional week; private healthcare; season ticket loans; an interest-free car loan; a cycle-to-work scheme; health cash plans; salary advance; retail discounts; an Employee Assistance Programme; and paid maternity, adoption, and paternity leave. Eligibility criteria may apply.

last updated 39 week of 2026