Enterprise Architect - Technology Infrastructure and Service Delivery

Role Overview :
The Enterprise Architect acts as a key advisor to the Business Unit or Functional leadership team and as a major contributor to McCormick’s Enterprise Architecture (EA) strategy. This role engages collaboratively with business and technology leaders to understand strategic business needs and roadmaps, solve complex technology and architecture challenges, and shape the technology strategy that enables McCormick’s growth and transformation.
The position leads architecture strategy development defines technology roadmaps and guardrails and ensures alignment with enterprise standards and guiding principles. The Enterprise Architect represents the domain’s needs within the broader EA framework, tracks emerging technologies, and assesses their potential to create business value. This role influences EA and Global IT strategic goals by maintaining awareness of value streams, capability maps, and changes to architecture roadmaps.

Key Responsibilities:

Lead complex projects requiring deep expertise in the assigned architecture domain, providing architectural designs, guidance, and oversight to ensure alignment with enterprise standards.
Act as a trusted advisor to Product Line leadership, partnering to solve business challenges through technology design, strategy, and solutions that drive business outcomes.
Lead solution architecture across projects and products to ensure alignment with enterprise strategy and standards while optimizing design across the enterprise.
Contribute to the development of architecture principles and standards; identify and resolve exceptions at the enterprise level and define architectural and security requirements.
Research emerging technologies and recommend innovations that enhance cost-effectiveness, flexibility, and long-term architectural value.
Develop and communicate strategic plans for systems architecture investments, including opportunities for cost optimization and technology modernization.
Collaborate with enterprise and functional stakeholders to ensure technology decisions support both business and IT strategies.
Maintain awareness of enterprise architecture roadmaps and ensure pragmatic alignment with global IT standards and guiding principles.
Support governance processes and contribute to decision-making frameworks that guide technology adoption and integration.
Actively promote innovation and continuous improvement in architecture practices across McCormick’s global technology landscape.

Desired Candidate Profile :
Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Computer Science, or related discipline.
Deep expertise in key Technology Infrastructure and Service Delivery architecture domains.
Proven ability to define and communicate a clear technology vision that delivers business value.
Demonstrated success in leading and influencing cross-functional teams.
Strong understanding of modern technology ecosystems (SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, APIs, ERP, microservices, predictive analytics).
Skilled at building trusted advisor relationships with business and technical stakeholders.
Experienced in agile and Dev Ops environments with a focus on digital transformation.
Strong decision-making, problem-solving, and change management capabilities.
Committed to continuous learning, innovation, and driving technology excellence across the enterprise.