Sr. Mgr. Enterprise Architecture

Ocean Spray is hiring for a Sr. Mgr. Enterprise Architecture! We're a team of farmers, thinkers, creators, and doers. Whatever your title, whatever your role - it always comes back to this: we're a farmer-owned co-op where everyone rolls up their sleeves to get the job done. Three maverick farmers started it all - and we've been making our own way ever since.

We’re all about flexibility! This will be a hybrid role based out of our corporate headquarters in Lakeville, MA with Mondays and Fridays remote.

• Set the technology blueprint and strategy for platforms, linked to our business strategies and product initiatives, including the integration layers (API/ETL) between all in-house and SaaS applications, workflows and customization, extensions, and all customer/consumer facing applications
• Define enterprise-wide reference architectures and roadmaps spanning ERP, integration, data, digital, and cloud platforms
• Translate business capability roadmaps into technology capability models and architectural guardrails
• Ensure alignment between enterprise architecture, security, data governance, and infrastructure strategies
• Own the definition and lifecycle management of architectural standards, including intentional retirement of legacy patterns
• Maintain current on new technologies and IT management practices and provide direction on what emerging IT technologies and methods should be introduced for maximum business value
• Works toward a balance between growing the agility required to achieve digital business objectives and ensuring the core IT functions are reliable, stable, and efficient

• Lead the establishment of standards for IT tools and platforms
• Spearhead the underlying technology choices and architectural trade-offs aligned with business and financial objectives.
• Establish appropriate architecture review and governance processes, leading system architecture and solution architecture decisions with project and product teams through an architecture committee
• Work with delivery teams to establish processes and norms for code reviews of pre-release software and ensure all security best practices are followed
• Serve as the final decision authority for enterprise architecture standards and platform-level architectural decisions

• Work closely with the Product Partners & PMO, to review IT roadmaps and assess underlying architectural needs and considerations
• Work with design and delivery teams to ensure architectural considerations, IT standards and appropriate tools are being applied in technical specifications and overall IT delivery approach
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior business and IT leaders on technology strategy, investments, and risk

• Demonstrated experience defining enterprise architecture operating models, including governance, decision rights, and engagement models
• Strong capability-based architecture experience (business capabilities technology enablement)
• Experience balancing enterprise standards with team autonomy in scaled agile environments
• Proven ability to assess architectural risk and technical debt and communicate trade-offs at an executive level
• Experience with in transformational (ERP-like) programs with the leading, building and execution of technology architecture and integration success during transition and steady state
• 4-5 years of data and analytics tools and the design and integration of this architecture
• Exposure to and experience of digital commerce solutions
• Deep understanding of the full software development life cycle (SDLC), including coding standards, code review, source control, build, test, deploy, and operations
• Extensive experience with security frameworks and standards such as OAuth2, OIDC, SAML
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively with others within a complex, cross-functional and fast paced organization with globally distributed teams
• Strong written and visual communication skills, including creation of architecture views for executive and delivery audiences
• General working experience of both waterfall and Agile/Scrum methodology