Enterprise Architect / Associate Distinguished Engineer

We are a Digital Product Engineering company that is scaling in a big way! We build products, services, and experiences that inspire, excite, and delight. We work at scale — across all devices and digital mediums, and our people exist everywhere in the world (15000+ experts across 26 countries, to be exact). Our work culture is dynamic and non-hierarchical. We are looking for great new colleagues. That is where you come in!

Role: Enterprise Architect

Must Have Skills:

• Cloud architecture (Strong)
• Retail & CPG - General Experience
• Enterprise Integration Patterns

Good To Have Skills:

• SAP

Job Description:

About the Role: The ideal candidate will be a motivated and detail-oriented professional who can lead architecture and design governance, contributing to the solution design, deployment, run, and change processes for integration capabilities. The ideal candidate must have a passion for next-generation architecture, application, and platform performance, as well as governance.

Responsibilities:

• Lead architecture and design activities to align with rapidly evolving business needs, while remaining highly performant, reliable, and resilient.
• Understand business drivers and work closely with other IT verticals and business platforms to deliver a cohesive and fully interoperable set of solutions.
• Drive enterprise architecture activities, which include:
  • Business capabilities/processes analysis
  • Technology evaluation
  • Application roadmap planning/solutioning
  • Data governance/integration
  • Privacy & security by design
• Advise and recommend enterprise architecture strategies, blueprints, principles, patterns, processes, and methodologies.
• Drive enterprise architecture design authority governance with project architects/managers to ensure architectural compliance.
• Research market/competition/emerging technologies and recommend technologies, standards, methods, and tools for both long-term strategic and short-term tactical business objectives.
• Lead and guide IT & business stakeholders on the target enterprise capability blueprint.
• Provide architecture recommendations for:
  • Cloud solutions (Azure, AWS, GCP)
  • Enterprise integration patterns (API, Event, ESB)
  • Business Intelligence (GCP) / Master Data Management technologies
• Engage with the Enterprise Architecture governance body by participating in project architecture and align project teams on improvements/solutions based on best practices, IT strategic directions, and current state of the art.
• Contribute to the development of technical specification documents and/or position papers.
• Build strong relationships with platform vendors and ensure continuous learning and knowledge sharing through internal and external expert networks.
• Strong experience and knowledge in the CPG industry, including enterprise solution design, delivery of applications/technologies linked to Finance Supply Chain business capabilities including Order to Cash, Forecast to Stock, Procure to Pay, and Record to Report business processes.

Preferred Skills/Profile:

• Experience developing and delivering an enterprise-wide technology architecture plan that achieves application simplification and standardization.
• Essential: SAP ERP (S4) experience with strong knowledge of Demand/Supply Planning, OMS, WMS & TMS technologies.
• A plus: Omni-Channel Ecommerce, CRM, Retail, Sales & Marketing application design and delivery experience.
• Ability to create impactful presentations that effectively communicate technical information to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• A passion and enthusiasm for technology.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently and build the enterprise architecture function “from scratch.”
• Strong organizational, interpersonal, and time management skills.
• Proven ability to influence indirectly, work effectively with cross-functional teams, and drive change.
• Ability to manage both short-term and long-term goals.
• Project management and process experience, including accurate estimation of resources, timeframes, and budgets.
• Strong experience and knowledge in the CPG industry, including enterprise solution design, delivery of applications/technologies linked to Finance Supply Chain business capabilities including Order to Cash, Forecast to Stock, Procure to Pay, and Record to Report business processes.

• Bachelor’s/master’s degree in computer science or equivalent technology experience.
• Certified practitioner in industry-recognized standards such as:
  • Open Group TOGAF
  • SAP S4/HANA
  • Microsoft Azure/PowerPlatform
  • GCP