It&d Architect, Manufacturing

Home to the world's best loved and trusted hygiene, health, and nutrition brands. Our purpose defines why we exist: to protect, heal and nurture in the relentless pursuit of a cleaner, healthier world. We are a global team united by this purpose.

Join us in our fight to make access to the highest quality hygiene, wellness, and nourishment a right and not a privilege.

**Information Technology & Digital**:
In IT&D, you'll be a force for good, whether you're championing cyber security, defining how we harness the power of technology to improve our business, or working with data to guide the innovation of consumer loved products.

Working globally across functions, you'll own your projects and process from start to finish, with the influence and visibility to achieve what needs to be done. And if you're willing to bring your ideas to the table, you'll get the support and investment to make them happen.

Your potential will never be wasted. You'll get the space and support to take your development to the next level. Every day, there will be opportunities to learn from peers and leaders through working on exciting, varied projects with real impact. And because our work spans so many different businesses, from Research and Product Development to Sales, you'll keep learning exciting new approaches.

**About the role**:
The IT&D Architect is accountable for proactively and holistically driving solution design activities within the IT Manufacturing product teams, ensuring alignment with the overall Enterprise Architecture and product stream strategy. The Solution Architect provides the necessary technical leadership, analysis and design tasks related to the development of a product or a set of products within a product group.

**Your responsibilities**:

- Use technical expertise to design, architect, develop & document Manufacturing IT solutions that solve complex and challenging problems across different projects on Factory Network, Azure or SaaS.
- Provide technical leadership throughout the design and deployment life cycle and focus on delivery with quality.
- Lead technical discussions on Technical Architecture and build consensus among all stakeholders including vendors.
- Responsible for creating Technical Architecture Specification Document with inputs from Factory network, Cloud, Product and Integration Teams
- Provide technical architecture consultancy and design for projects
- Should understand security and compliance requirements, deliver the solutions as per the defined business standards, principles & patterns. Particularly from a Factory Network and Azure Cloud perspective.

**The experience we're looking for**:

- Deep technical experience in networking (factory and corporate) and infrastructure design including, On-premises, private and public cloud, virtualization, storage & Integration Services
- Proven expertise in Design and architect multi-tier Cloud only / Hybrid network, infrastructure, integrations.
- Knowledge of OT Assets and OT Network and how they integrate with Cloud Infrastructure
- Knowledge on Security services and Identity services like Encryption, Active Directory, RBAC, NSGs / ASGs, firewall policies, etc.
- Knowledge on Azure Networking services (e.g., VNETs, Load Balancers, Front Door, ExpressRoute, Traffic Manager, Content Delivery Network) and Firewalls

**The skills for success**:
OT Security, OT Network, Cloud Infrastructure, Manufacturing Infrastructure, Manufacturing process, Infrastructure design, Storage, Integration services, Hybrid Network

**What we offer**:
With inclusion at the heart of everything we do, working alongside our four global Employee Resource Groups, we support our people at every step of their career journey, helping them to succeed in their own individual way.

We invest in the wellbeing of our people through parental benefits, an Employee Assistance Program to promote mental health, and life insurance for all employees globally. We have a range of other benefits in line with the local market. Through our global share plans we offer the opportunity to save and share in Reckitt's potential future successes. For eligible roles, we also offer short-term incentives to recognise, appreciate and reward your work for delivering outstanding results. You will be rewarded in line with Reckitt's pay for performance philosophy.

**Equality**:
We recognise that in real life, great people don't always 'tick all the boxes'. That's why we hire for potential as well as experience. Even if you don't meet every point on the job description, if this role and our company feels like a good fit for you, we still want to hear from you.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, disability or medical condition; colour, ethnicity, race, citizenship, and national origin; religion, faith; pregnancy, family status and caring responsibilities; sexual orientation; sex, gender identity, gender expression, and transgender identity; pro