Why choose us?Are you ready to take the next step in your career? Join us for an exciting opportunity at Albertsons Companies, where innovation and customer service go hand-in-hand!

At Albertsons Companies, we are looking for someone who’s not just seeking a job, but someone who wants to make an impact. In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to lead, innovate, and contribute to the growth of a company that values great service and lasting customer relationships. This position offers the chance to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment that’s constantly evolving.

Main responsibilities:

The Senior Director of Architecture is a strategic technology leader responsible for defining and driving enterprise architecture across cloud, platform, infrastructure and security domains. This role ensures alignment between business strategy and technology execution, with a strong emphasis on cloud-first architectures (most notably Azure and Google Cloud Platform), AI enablement, and secure, scalable digital platforms.

The role leads cross-functional architecture teams and partners with engineering, security, product, and business leaders to deliver resilient, cost-effective, and future-ready solutions. This role is critical in shaping the organization’s technology future, driving cloud-first, AI-enabled, and secure platforms that enable business growth and innovation. The Senior Director of Architecture will serve as a key strategic partner in delivering modern, scalable, and resilient enterprise capabilities.

Location: Pleasanton, CA

1.

Enterprise Architecture Leadership:

• Define and evolve enterprise architecture strategy aligned to business goals.
• Establish architecture principles, standards, and governance across all domains.
• Drive modernization initiatives including cloud migration, platform engineering, and legacy transformation.
• Lead architecture review boards and ensure adherence to standards.
• Align architecture roadmaps with capital planning and investment governance.
• Partner with Fin Ops to optimize total cost of ownership (TCO).
• Drive rationalization of application portfolio and vendor footprint.

2.

Enterprise Architecture Governance & Operating Model:

• Define and operationalize enterprise architecture governance, including intake, review, and exception processes.
• Establish reference architectures, reusable patterns, and decision frameworks.
• Drive adoption of EA tooling (e.g., Planview).
• Govern technology lifecycle management and technical debt reduction.
• Define build vs. buy vs. partner strategy.
• Rationalize vendor ecosystem and ensure interoperability across platforms.

3. Cloud Strategy & Foundations (most notably Azure & GCP)

• Own multi-region, multi-cloud strategy with deep expertise in Azure and GCP.
• Define and implement cloud foundations including landing zones, governance, and guardrails.
• Establish best practices for scalability, reliability, cost optimization (Fin Ops), and performance.
• Drive cloud-native and hybrid architectures leveraging containers, Kubernetes, and serverless.
• Define edge compute infrastructure strategies to support retail business and store intelligence with AI and Data

4.

AI & Data Platform Enablement:

• Champion AI/ML adoption across the enterprise, including generative and Agentic AI use cases.
• Define architecture for AI and data platforms supporting analytics, real-time processing, and AI workloads.
• Ensure integration of AI capabilities into core business platforms and developer workflows.
• Define AI and Data governance strategy for enterprise adoption of capabilities like low-code/no-code AI Agents
• Partner with data science and engineering teams to operationalize AI (MLOps, AIOps).

5.

Infrastructure & Network Architecture:

• Oversee global infrastructure architecture including compute, storage, and network design.
• Define modern network architectures supporting hybrid, multi-cloud and edge connectivity.
• Ensure high availability, disaster recovery, and business continuity strategies.

6. Security, Identity & Zero Trust

• Lead architecture for enterprise security with a Zero Trust model.
• Define identity and access management (IAM) strategies including federation, SSO, and privileged access.
• Define strategy for non-human identities and security controls for AI and Agentic workloads in the enterprise
• Ensure compliance with regulatory and security standards.
• Partner with security teams to embed security-by-design principles.

7. Integration & B2B Architecture

• Define integration strategy including APIs, event-driven architecture, and messaging platforms.
• Lead B2B integration initiatives (EDI, partner connectivity, ecosystem platforms).
• Promote reusable integration patterns and API governance.

8.

Data & Database Architecture:

• Establish strategy for transactional and analytical data platforms.
• Define standards for database technologies (SQL, NoSQL, distributed systems).
• Ensure data governance, quality, and lifecycle management.

9.

Observability & Reliability Engineering:

• Define enterprise observability strategy (logging, metrics, tracing).
• Implement SRE practices including SLIs/SLOs and incident management.
• Drive proactive monitoring and performance optimization.

10.

Developer Enablement & Integrated Toolchain:

• Guide platform engineering initiatives to improve developer productivity through integrated toolchain
• Define internal developer platforms (IDP), CI/CD pipelines, and tooling standards.
• Promote DevOps and DevSec Ops practices across teams.
• Define strategy and roadmap for enabling AI-assisted and agentic SDLC practices

11.

Leadership & Stakeholder Engagement:

• Build and lead high-performing architecture teams.
• Partner with executives and business leaders to translate strategy into technical roadmaps.
• Influence organizational change and technology adoption.
• Manage vendor relationships and evaluate emerging technologies.

We are looking for candidates who possess the following:

• 10 plus years of leadership experience in enterprise architecture, cloud, and infrastructure roles with 5 plus years of people management at a Director (or similar) level
• 15 plus years of overall technology experience in large enterprise environments
• Deep expertise in Azure and GCP cloud platforms.
• Strong experience in multi-cloud and hybrid architectures.
• Proven leadership in large-scale digital transformation initiatives.
• Expertise in security architecture including Zero Trust and IAM.
• Experience with AI/ML platforms and data architecture.
• Strong understanding of integration patterns, APIs, and event-driven systems.
• Experience in retail, supply chain, or large-scale enterprise environments.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, microservices, and serverless architectures.
• Knowledge of Fin Ops and cloud cost management.
• Certifications in Azure, GCP, or enterprise architecture frameworks (TOGAF, etc.).
• Strategic thinking and business alignment
• Technical depth across cloud, infrastructure, and security
• Strong leadership and organizational influence
• Innovation mindset with focus on AI and emerging technologies
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• Successful delivery of cloud and AI transformation and maturity initiatives
• Improved system reliability, scalability, and security posture
• Increased developer productivity and platform adoption
• Reduction in operational costs through optimized architectures
• Adoption of standardized architecture practices across the enterprise

We also provide a variety of benefits including:

• Competitive wages paid weekly
• Associate discounts
• Health and financial well-being benefits for eligible associates (Medical, Dental, 401k and more!)
• Time off (vacation, holidays, sick pay). For eligibility requirements please visit myACI Benefits
• Leaders invested in your training, career growth and development
• An inclusive work environment with talented colleagues who reflect the communities we serve Our Values – Click below to view video:

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