Solution Architect

About the role
Domain Architects drive alignment to help Technology collectively deliver a simpler, flexible & sustainable architecture. They define, communicate and govern the architecture for given business domains in order to ensure it enables and delivers the Tesco Business Strategy. They work closely with senior stakeholders to understand specific domain requirements, leading in the development of architecture blueprints and providing technical leadership to ensure integrity and consistency of technology solutions across the domain.
You will be responsible for
Fostering understanding of the current technology landscape and its impact on stakeholders:

• Ensure we have models and materials that describe the application landscape for a given domain at a high-level and how it supports the business unit
• Help colleagues of all levels to understand the bigger picture and their role / activities within it to aid decision making
  

Evolving and embedding our overall Technology Strategy and ensuring it informs everything we do:

• Contribute to the definition of a target domain architecture that will improve our business for customers and colleagues in line with our business and Technology strategy and plans
• Identify organisational requirements for the resources to support the delivery of the architecture
• Identify the optimal approach to delivering Tesco business strategy while increasing agility and driving simplicity / cost efficiency over the short, medium and long-term.
• Contribute to business planning activities utilising our broad understanding of Tesco and broader industry / technology trends
  

Guiding high-level delivery planning and design to deliver our strategic goals whilst ensuring we continuously deliver business value

• Work in collaboration other teams to help ensure we design flexible, efficient and secure solutions
• Apply governing principles, policies, standards etc. to guide solution decision making for architecturally significant initiatives 
• Supporting successful delivery by providing targeted support through the technology lifecycle, delivering business value and realising strategic goals.
  

Evolving our architecture and design framework as part of the Technology delivery model:

• Build architecture capability and competency within Tesco in keeping with our emphasis on agile, DevOps and architecture is everyones role principles
• Engage and educate Technology colleagues in enterprise and data architecture topics
• Proactively collaborate and communicate with Technology colleagues and delivery partners to drive awareness and interest
• Build effective relationships with our business and group colleagues, and valued 3rd party partners.
  
• Evaluate and recommend new technologies and tools to enhance business processes
  

You will need

• Successful use of Domain Architecture to shape strategic priorities
• Deep knowledge and proven record of leading a business domain through a transformation programme
• Continuous Improvement in Application landscape to rationalise and decommission applications.
• Design and management of an domain architecture to meet its strategic needs, providing a blueprint for engineers to build and product to follow
• Creation, communication and embedding of Technology strategy
• Leading architecture governance / assurance
• Hands on (current or previous) engineering experience 
• Business Operating Model knowledge/experience
  

Key Architecture Skills:

• Technology understanding across Data, Software, Infrastructure and Security
• Solution Shaping & Problem-Solving
• Technology Strategy & Portfolio Steering
• Architecture modelling 
• Technical Writing (Standards, Whitepapers & Cookbooks)
  

Whats in it for you

At Tesco, we are committed to providing the best for you. 

As a result, our colleagues enjoy a unique, differentiated, market- competitive reward package, based on the current industry practices, for all the work they put into serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day. 

Our Tesco Rewards framework consists of pillars - Fixed Pay, Incentives, and Benefits.

Total Rewards offered at Tesco is determined by four principles -simple, fair, competitive, and sustainable. 

Salary - Your fixed pay is the guaranteed pay as per your contract of employment. 

Leave & Time-off - Colleagues are entitled to 30 days of leave (18 days of Earned Leave, 12 days of Casual/Sick Leave) and 10 national and festival holidays, as per the companys policy. 

Making Retirement Tension-FreeSalary - In addition to Statutory retirement beneets, Tesco enables colleagues to participate in voluntary programmes like NPS and VPF. 

Health is Wealth - Tesco promotes programmes that support a culture of health and wellness including insurance for colleagues and their family. Our medical insurance provides coverage for dependents including parents or in-laws. 

Mental Wellbeing - We offer mental health support through self-help tools, community groups, ally networks, face-to-face counselling, and more for both colleagues and dependents.

Financial Wellbeing - Through our financial literacy partner, we offer one-to-one financial coaching at discounted rates, as well as salary advances on earned wages upon request.

Save As You Earn (SAYE) - Our SAYE programme allows colleagues to transition from being employees to Tesco shareholders through a structured 3-year savings plan.

Physical Wellbeing - Our green campus promotes physical wellbeing with facilities that include a cricket pitch, football field, badminton and volleyball courts, along with indoor games, encouraging a healthier lifestyle. 
About Us

Tesco in Bengaluru is a multi-disciplinary team serving our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day across markets. Our goal is to create a sustainable competitive advantage for Tesco by standardising processes, delivering cost savings, enabling agility through technological solutions, and empowering our colleagues to do even more for our customers. With cross-functional expertise, a wide network of teams, and strong governance, we reduce complexity, thereby offering high-quality services for our customers. 

Tesco in Bengaluru, established in 2004 to enable standardisation and build centralised capabilities and competencies, makes the experience better for our millions of customers worldwide and simpler for over 3,30,000 colleagues 

Tesco Technology

Today, our Technology team consists of over 5,000 experts spread across the UK, Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and India. In India, our Technology division includes teams dedicated to Engineering, Product, Programme, Service Desk and Operations, Systems Engineering, Security & Capability, Data Science, and other roles. 

At Tesco, our retail platform comprises a wide array of capabilities, value propositions, and products, essential for crafting exceptional retail experiences for our customers and colleagues across all channels and markets. This platform encompasses all aspects of our operations - from identifying and authenticating customers, managing products, pricing, promoting, enabling customers to discover products, facilitating payment, and ensuring delivery. By developing a comprehensive Retail Platform, we ensure that as customer touchpoints and devices evolve, we can consistently deliver seamless experiences. This adaptability allows us to respond flexibly without the need to overhaul our technology, thanks to the creation of capabilities we have built.