Director IT Solution Architecture - Innovation

Nestlé Information Technology is the digital arm of the world’s largest nutrition, health, and wellness company. With 150 years in business, 2,000 brands, and 270,000 diverse team members—you’re joining an organization that’s revolutionizing food and championing global humanitarian efforts with technology at its core.

Joining Nestlé IT means you’ll never stop learning and sharpening new skills. Tools, technologies, and innovation for the next generation of food is part of it. Working with team members from different cultures and corners of the world on truly meaningful initiatives is what makes our work inspiring. Think beyond technology. Feel like you belong. Join a Force for Good.

Position Summary

As a Director for Solution Architecture in Zone America, you and your team will work to maintain a holistic overview of the relationships between business operating model, data, and technology. As a leader, you’ll implement enterprise-level solutions leveraging modern architecture patterns that align with business objectives while driving technical excellence and innovation. Lastly, you will develop roadmap plans for optimizing the organization and the talent required to execute strategies within your area.

• Partner with Development teams and IT Streams solution architects to drive the architecture throughout the solution life cycle
• Drive zone architecture governance to ensure that zone solutions adhere to architectural standards, best practices, and strategic objectives
• Drive stakeholder engagement, cross-org alignment, and key design decisions in alignment with business requirements

• Drive technology portfolio rationalization to ensure efficiency
• Participate in strategic and architecture planning by providing current state knowledge as well as insights into the future direction
• Define future-ready architecture that enables and adopts the strategy for APIs, databases, cloud infrastructures, cloud services, and microservices
• Enhance and raise engineering bar on standards and processes to ensure extensibility, scalability, quality, and compliance
• Research and stay up to date with the industry's latest and best practices, and experiment with cutting-edge technologies to drive innovation

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in business, computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, system analysis, or equivalent experience
• 10 years of experience in at least two IS/IT disciplines (such as infrastructure or security management, application development, middleware, information analysis) in a multitier environment
• 5 years of experience as an IT architecture leader or working as a solution architect in an Agile environment
• 2 experience working in global, matrix organizations with distributed architecture teams

Other

• Experience designing, integrating, and managing complex ISIT solutions, products and platforms is preferred
• Experience in the area of digital business and technologies is preferred
Understanding of agile methods and processes, and capability of supporting agile project teams by providing advice and guidance on opportunities, impact and risks is preferred

REQUISITION ID
331711

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