Digital Factory Platform Coud Architect

**JOB TITLE**:Digital Factory Platform Coud Architect - Manufacturing, Quality & SHE**

**LOCATION: UniOps 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.

**ABOUT UNIOPS**:
Unilever Operations (UniOps) is the global technology and operations engine of Unilever offering business services, technology, and enterprise solutions. UniOps serves over 190 locations and through a network of specialized service lines and partners delivers insights and innovations, user experiences and end-to-end seamless delivery making Unilever Purpose Led and Future Fit.

**Background**

Unilever is digitally rewiring its supply chain, focusing on generating real-time & democratized information, capitalizing on robotics, and building digitally connected factories. This change is focusing on (1) manufacturing & quality transformation in Unilever factories, (2) supporting a partnership ecosystem for Collaborative Manufacturers & Supply Partners, and (3) building capabilities for consumer insights.

The Supply Chain Transformation is expected to enable
- Improved agility and customer centricity across end-to-end manufacturing and supply chains through facilitation of faster recognition of customer preferences and feedback. This, in turn, will allow quicker adjustments to manufacturing flows at next-generation smart factories to allow higher levels of customization. A competitive edge through supply-chain resilience - thereby requiring connected, reconfigurable supply ecosystems. Speed and productivity through increased levels of automation and workforce augmentation coupled with upskilling and reskilling effort. Being cost-efficient and resource-efficient, to boost growth and support investment.

All this requires delivering competitive, volume driven growth, while supporting an increasing demand for agility and needs to be underpinned by sustainable cost reduction. And an operating model & practices that will enable technology to unlock this.

In addition, the Quality and Safety functions are horizontals that extend across the Unilever. They extend beyond the four walls of the factory into Supplier & Marketplace quality and Occupational Safety for the entire organization.

**Purpose of the Role**:
**Key Accountabilities & Activities**
- You will be working alongside the Digital Manufacturing Product team to identify and implement the most optimal cloud-based solutions for our business.
- As part of this role, you will be accountable for delivery of architecture solutions through all phases of the product lifecycle, including requirements definition, architecture design, conversion, and testing; based on a proven agile methodology.
- You will need to provide comprehensive designs for engineers on how to deliver programmatic elements of the implementation as part of the defined product service.
- Key to this role, you will need to be competent in Architecting cloud-native, hybrid, or multi-cloud solutions to meet the business needs.
- Create and own content and lead workshops on technical topics with the business units.
- Engage with technical stakeholders of the platform/business team and third parties to understand how systems work, be able to highlight where efficiencies or cloud-native services could improve their environment.
- Coordinates with various departments and roles to assure that all changes fit within the overall direction of the Manufacturing team from both a functional, technical, & support perspective.
- Provide technical expertise to troubleshoot complex problems and design and implement solutions.
- Assist teams to solve complex technical problems and build automation to eliminate mundane tasks.
- Document any developed processes and procedures.
- Demonstrate understanding of current technology environment and industry trends.
- Ensures decisions around architecture are made in alignment with defined UniOps and Unilever strategies with deviations from standards being accurately identified, addressed