Domain Architect - Integration

Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: Holborn Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1N 2HT
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Sainsbury's Tech
Closing date: 06 December 2024
Requisition ID: 270091

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 as a Domain Architect means embarking on an exciting journey to tackle some of the most compelling technology challenges in the retail industry. You will have the opportunity to shape and drive the technology strategy and roadmap across the entire data integration estate, making a meaningful difference to millions of customers. As part of an agile and empowered team, you will collaborate with talented colleagues across Engineering, Product, and Architecture to create innovative, scalable, and future-proof solutions. We foster a culture of collaboration, learning, and ownership, where your expertise and influence will extend across the organisation.

What you'll do
As a Domain Architect at Sainsbury's, you will play a critical role in tackling complex technology problems within the retail industry. You will partner with Heads of Engineering and Product to deliver strategic, big-picture thinking and define the overall technology direction for a significant area of our business. This involves creating and implementing an overall technical integration architecture roadmap and strategy that maximises the return on technology investment, reduces technical debt, and drives re-use. As a Domain Architect, you will communicate and champion the technology strategy for the integration domain, inspiring colleagues and teams to contribute and align with the overall vision. You will also collaborate with the broader architecture community, sharing expertise and promoting alignment for key strategic initiatives across Sainsbury's Tech.

Who you are
As a C5 Domain Architect for Sainsbury's Tech, you are a highly experienced and influential professional in the field of Integration Architecture. With particular focus on messaging, publication and subscription for domained data services, ideally using Kafka. You should have a strong background in developing and implementing domain-level roadmaps and strategies, in addition to possessing a deep understanding of overall technology principles and standards. Your expertise in evolving architectures, modern engineering practices and business capability modelling allows you to shape the components being developed to drive simplification and graceful evolution over time. As a skilled communicator, you have the ability to condense complex technology choices into digestible decisions and influence stakeholders at all levels.

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.

Benefits
Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to save 10% on your shopping online and instore at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat, and we regularly increase the discount to 15% at points during the year. 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 up to an additional week's holiday, and we provide private healthcare. 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, salary advance (where you can access some of your pay before payday) 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.

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 for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).