Enterprise Solution Architect

**Position Title**:Enterprise Solution Architect

**Position Type**: Regular - Full-Time

**Position Location**:Gurgaon

**Requisition ID**: 35872

**JOB PURPOSE**:
The Enterprise Application Architect is accountable for proactively and holistically lead and/or support Enterprise Architecture activities that create deliverables that guide the direction and development for technological responses to disruptive forces, and driving targeted business outcomes. Technologies may include data center, infrastructure, cloud, mobile and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies.

You will collaborate with our business leaders and partners, act as a trusted advisor, and lead technical transformations and implementations for our dynamic business, which covers our extended value chain from Agriculture through manufacturing, logistics and commercial, including retail / FMCG.

**JOB RESPONSIBILITIES**:

- Work with EA peers (e.g., enterprise, business, data, and solutions architects) to analyze enterprise business context (business strategy and trends), as well as change requirements in other enterprise architecture viewpoints (such as business, information and solution) to derive the technology architecture future state. This includes defining the requirements, principles and models that guide technology decisions for the enterprise.
- Collect and assess information for technical stacks and platforms, and determine the rating for technical fitness and risk indicators.
- Drive portfolio simplification to decommission redundancies, reduce maintenance costs and improve system reliability.
- Responsible for establishing a clear path to Application Modernization and cloud migration approaches.
- Translate business and technical requirements into an architectural blueprint to achieve business objectives, and document all solution architecture design and analysis work.
- Help capturing the total cost of ownership (TCO) of the solutions/technological platforms being developed or adopted.
- Define high-level migration plans to address the gaps between the current and future state, typically in sync with the IT budgeting or other capital planning processes.
- Assist with designing the governance, assurance and standards activities associated with ensuring enterprise technology architecture compliance.
- Understand, advocate, and augment the business and IT strategies — and, more specifically, EA development and service delivery. Be prepared to "sell" the EA process (overall, not just for enterprise technology architecture), its outcome and ongoing results, and to lead the communication or marketing activities needed to ensure enterprise success and use.

**MEASURES OF SUCCESS**:

- Be an excellent communicator and collaborator, engaging with multiple technical and business stakeholders and leaders.
- Understanding and knowledge of system development life cycle methodologies (such as waterfall, spiral, agile software development, rapid prototyping, incremental, synchronize and stabilize, and DevOps).
- Rapidly comprehend the functions and capabilities of new technologies.
- Cloud: PaaS, IaaS, cloud architecture.
- Application Portfolio Management (APM): Hands on experience implementing APM with one or more leading EA tool would be an asset.
- Knowledge of the SAP emerging technologies such as S4/HANA would be an asset.

**KEY QUALIFICATION & EXPERIENCES**:

- Fifteen or more years of experience designing and leading creative architecture solutions
- Post-secondary education in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Management Information Systems, or a related discipline
- Advanced knowledge of architecture tools, processes and procedures
- A proven ability to interpret and communicate IT related information and concepts into business language for senior level stakeholders
- Ability to understand the long-term ("big picture") and short-term perspectives of situations.
- Ability to quickly comprehend the functions and capabilities of new technologies.
- Alignment with our values of safety above all else, respect, raise the bar, commitments matter and do the right thing
- Architecture experience in Agriculture and food manufacturing is an asset
- A certification in enterprise architecture such as The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF)
- A professional certification as an architect with an industry-recognized organization
- Key Competencies:_
- _ Drives Results, Collaboration, Customer focus_
- McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. We see value in ensuring we have a diverse, antiracist, inclusive, merit-based, and equitable workplace. As a global family-owned company we are proud to reflect the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that diversity drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger._
- McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible me