Enterprise Architect - Technology Ingrastructure & Service Delivery

McCormick & Company, Incorporated; Gurgaon; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,500,000; Full time

Job summary

McCormick & Company, Incorporated is looking for an Enterprise Architect in Gurgaon to lead technology infrastructure and service delivery. The ideal candidate should have over 15 years of IT experience, strong business acumen in CPG industries, and knowledge of architecture domains like infrastructure and cyber security.

You will guide architectural strategies and be a key advisor to the Product Line leadership team. This role also includes influencing technology innovations and compliance with regulatory requirements.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of IT experience, primarily in an engineering or architecture role.
• Deep understanding of CPG industries and relevant architecture domains.
• Familiarity with regulatory requirements and data privacy laws.

Responsibilities

• Provide architectural designs and guidance on complex projects.
• Act as a trusted advisor to the Product Line leadership.
• Lead solution architecture projects to align with enterprise strategy.
• Create governing principles and standards for architecture.
• Perform research on emerging technologies to improve systems.

Skills

IT experience in engineering/architecture

Business acumen for CPG industries

Knowledge of business ecosystems

Familiarity with information management practices

Knowledge of SaaS and IaaS

Predictive analytics

Job description

Enterprise Architect - Technology Infrastructure & Service Delivery

GURGAON, IN, 122001

Position Overview:

• Act as key advisory to theBusiness Unit /Functionalleadership 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 domainneeds 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. Work to solve the product lines challenges through design, strategy, and solutions.
• 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.

Desired Candidate Profile:

• 15+ 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 effect the pharmaceutical industry
• Knowledge of business ecosystems, SaaS, infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), SOA, APIs, ERP, microservices, event-driven IT and predictive analytics

McCormick & Company is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

As a general policy, McCormick does not offer employment visa sponsorships upon hire or in the future.