Enterprise Architect

**Job Title**:Enterprise Architect - Finance and Procurement**

**Location: Bangalore**

**ABOUT UNILEVER**:
Be part of the world’s most successful, purpose-led business. Work with brands that are well-loved around the world, that improve the lives of our consumers and the communities around us. We promote innovation, big and small, to make our business win and grow; and we believe in business as a force for good. Unleash your curiosity, challenge ideas and disrupt processes; use your energy to make this happen. Our brilliant business leaders and colleagues provide mentorship and inspiration, so you can be at your best. Every day, nine out of ten Indian households use our products to feel good, look good and get more out of life - giving us a unique opportunity to build a brighter future.

Every individual here can bring their purpose to life through their work. Join us and you’ll be surrounded by inspiring leaders and supportive peers. Among them, you’ll channel your purpose, bring fresh ideas to the table, and simply be you. As you work to make a real impact on the business and the world, we’ll work to help you become a better you.

**Background**:
Unilever is the global company behind powerhouse brands such as Dove, Persil and PG Tips. The Unilever corporate strategy (The Compass) sets out an ambitious growth and sustainability objective for Unilever.

Technology in Unilever is at the forefront of genuine globalisation. Technology touches every part of our organisation enabling our business to move faster and with more confidence than ever before. As the pace of business gets faster, and as consumer behaviours evolve more rapidly, technology is the way we create competitive advantage for Unilever. Technology helps Unilever to grow

The Enterprise Architecture (EA) team partners Unilever Operations (UniOps) teams to Select technologies and Architects them to fit within the enterprise environment; provides the Enterprise Architecture Standards for IT to work to; works with Unilever’s IT Vendor partners to understand and drive their future Technology Roadmaps; and maintains the overall Unilever Reference Architecture of all technologies 'as-is' and 'to-be' to support Unilever’s required business capabilities.

This role will report to the lead Enterprise Architect of Consumer Experience and in relationships at the Director level within the Finance and Procurement spaces. This role will be accountable for architecture across finance and procurement.

Key to the role will be helping to break down technology silo’s in each function to fully leverage the power of UniOps platforms across all channels. To drive Unilever’s ambition of growing knowledge and experience with such strategies and technologies will be required.

An effective Enterprise Architect will proactively and holistically leading enterprise responses to disruptive forces by identifying and analysing the execution of change toward the desired business vision and targeted outcomes. They will be practical and able to speak the language of the business, accounting for a non-technical audience when explaining strategy.

Enterprise architects guide and coordinate all aspects of the EA program, including: (1) business architecture, which is focused on guiding people, process and organizational change; (2) information architecture, which is focused on the consistent sharing of information across the enterprise; (3) solutions architecture, which is focused on developing a direction for managing the portfolio of to-be solutions; (4) technical architecture, which is focused on evolving the technical infrastructure; and (5) security architecture, which is focused on managing IT risk through the exchange of information between people, systems and things inside and outside the organization.

This architect will support the lead enterprise architect in developing, maintaining, and governing the enterprise architecture across the organization. They lead, prioritize, and develop the overall enterprise architecture approach for their remit, and communicate architectural direction.

**Key Accountabilities**:
**Lead and Influence**
- Support the creation or evolution of the enterprise architecture prograM/Function
- Promote the business value of the EA prograM/Function and its process, and the results of the EA program to business and IT leaders/executives.
- Lead the development (supported by the Lead EA) of an implementation plan for the finance and procurement enterprise architecture based on business strategy and requirements.
- Seek opportunities to highlight how digital business initiatives will potentially impact enterprises' economic architecture and metrics.

**Identify Ecosystems and Develop Business Models**
- Design and construct future
- Detail potential competitive threats from digital enterprises that are generally considered outside of your traditional realm of competition.

**Focus on Strategy and Execution**
- Construct technology-e