Technology Architect

This role plays a key role in shaping client’s technology landscape. This position is responsible for driving the IT strategy and roadmap, including the evaluation, selection, and design of technology solutions to meet the needs of both IT and key business portfolios such as Supply Chain and Stores.

This is a highly visible role with broad engagement across client’s IT, business partners, and external technology providers. The ideal candidate will bring strong architectural expertise and the ability to develop solutions that align with our business goals.

Provides enterprise level architecture consultancy including thought leadership and technical guidance for strategic projects across programs and business portfolios.

Addresses key enterprise technology architecture aspects, including technology solutions and strategies, feasibility insights, and how supporting technologies fit together and evolve over time.

Conducts TCO and ROI analysis to help understand and convey the financial impact of architecture solutions and strategies.

Prepares and conducts presentations of architecture solutions and strategic proposals to a wide audience including executives.

Participates in the 5-year planning and annual budgeting process. Provides actionable recommendations on initiatives to drive targeted business outcomes. Tracks technology lifecycle and influences 5-year plan to account for technology obsolescence and risk.

Collaborates with IT and Business Partners to define enablers in the roadmap plan that explore technical options and build the architecture runway and provide early feedback to meet roadmap milestones.

Works with peer architects (enterprise, domain, and security) to analyze business context (business strategy and trends), as well as other architecture viewpoints (such as information and solution) to develop the future state technology architecture. This includes defining the requirements, principles and models that guide technology decisions for the enterprise.

Facilitates the research, evaluation, and selection of hardware and software technology and product standards, as well as the design of standard configurations.

Develops, documents, and maintains technology architecture standards and patterns.

Ensures work produced is aligned with other Enterprise, Application and Portfolio architects, providing holistic enterprise solutions.

Ensures completion of Architectural and project deliverables on time and under budget and that anticipated business outcomes are achieved.

Creates solution designs that leverage client’s architecture standards and services that can meet key project design criteria (Availability, Recoverability, Scalability, Performance characteristics) and can be properly supported by the IT engineering, support and operations teams throughout the project's lifecycle.

Provides architectural and technical input for definition, estimation and delivery of projects.

Works frequently with external resources or 3rd parties such as IT System Integrators and Software/Hardware vendors to assess technology required to develop a solution for a current problem statement as well as new and emerging technology that can provide strategic value.

Minimum 5-10 years of experience in information technology (IT), technology solutions, infrastructure technologies, architecture, and/or consulting

Have a deep understanding of end-to-end supply chain functions (Plan-Source-Make-Deliver) with a focus on supply chain management, warehouse operations, and logistics.

Technically competent on Supply Chain, related technology systems.

Have a deep understanding and 5+ years of demonstrated experience in: o Microsoft technologies

Microsoft Certificate Services

Server Operating Systems – RHEL (8 and
9), Solaris

HPE Synergy

HCI

Oracle SPARC o Enterprise SAN and Backup Technologies