[Hiring] Enterprise Architect, Data & Analytics @McCormick & Company

Role Description

We are looking to hire an Enterprise Architect, Data & Analytics immediately in a remote capacity in the US.

Act as key advisory to the Business Unit / Functional leadership team as well as a key contributor to McCormick's Enterprise Architecture (EA) strategy, engaging in a highly collaborative way to understand the business domain including strategic business needs and roadmaps. Collaborate with the functional area to solve unique and high complex technology Architecture or business-significant problems, build capabilities, and shape technology strategy.

• Act as a primary architecture domain expert in the accountable capability area.
• Lead the development of architecture strategy, roadmaps, and guardrails.
• Utilize business capability models, technology reference models, and functional area roadmaps to guide investment decisions in support of executing business and IT strategy.
• Represent capability domain needs within Enterprise Architecture.
• Track and apply emerging innovative and existing technologies, anchoring them in the business model to assess their potential, and help to evolve innovations.
• Influence and contribute EA and Global IT’s strategic goals, maintaining central awareness of value stream, business capability map, and changes to architecture roadmaps.
• Guide pragmatic alignment to global IT standards and EA Guiding Principles.

Key Responsibilities

• Works on complex projects that require in-depth knowledge of a specialized capability within their architecture domain, providing architectural designs and guidance.
• Act as a trusted advisor in service to Product Line leader on the Product Line leadership team.
• Lead solution architecture within projects and products to align to enterprise strategy and standards while pragmatically solving for the requirements and optimization both within the product and across the enterprise.
• Participates in the creation of governing principles and standards to guide architecture decision making.
• Identifies exceptions to architectural standards at an enterprise level and facilitates resolution.
• Reviews and/or analyzes and develops architectural and security requirements as needed for the organization.
• Performs research on emerging technologies in support of systems development efforts and recommends technologies that will improve cost effectiveness and systems flexibility.
• Develop, document, and communicate plans for investing in systems architecture, including analysis of cost reduction opportunities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree
• 8+ Years of IT experience, with a significant amount of time spent in an engineering / architecture role
• Significant, well-rounded business acumen for the CPG industries
• Significant depth in the focus business architecture domain and technical architecture domain (infrastructure, applications, integration, information & data, cyber security, etc.)
• Familiarity with information management practices, regulatory requirements and data privacy laws, especially those that uniquely affect the pharmaceutical industry
• Knowledge of business ecosystems, SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, SOA, APIs, ERP, microservices, event-driven IT and predictive analytics
• Ability to define and communicate compelling, business-enabling technology vision and the business value of this vision, along with actionable roadmaps to achieve target state architecture across people, process, and technology dimensions.
• Demonstrated proficiency in leading and influencing cross-functional teams.
• Able to gain buy-in and promote shared ownership of projects
• Master of the art of change management through effective communication, planning, and execution
• Ability to work with significant autonomy of decision-making and self-direction to drive leading business and IT outcomes while remaining aligned to the evolving Takeda Enterprise Architecture target state architecture
• Ability to multi-task with a sense of urgency, while taking a rigorous, structured approach
• Adept at developing meaningful “trusted advisor” relationships with EA’s business and technical stakeholders of all levels
• Proven ability to work well with people from different disciplines and with varying degrees of business or technical knowledge
• Proven ability to communicate clearly both in verbal and written forms to all organizational levels
• Exposure to agile ways of working, such as Scrum / SAFe and DevOps methodologies
• Solid grasp of the strategic technologies McCormick needs to act on and operationalize in the next three to five years
• Demonstrated ability to create and share relevant enabling architecture guidance or reference architectures in support of innovation

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Career growth opportunities
• Flexibility and Support for Diverse Life Stages and Choices
• Comprehensive health plans covering medical, vision, dental, life and disability benefits
• Family-friendly benefits such as paid parental leave, fertility benefits, Employee Assistance Program, and caregiver support
• Retirement and investment programs including 401(k) and profit-sharing plans