Principal Application Architect

Our Client operates in the Food Processing Industry, with its headquarters rooted strongly in the United States. It has its branches spread to more than 200 countries, providing employment to more than 3,00,000 people all over the world. They fall in the Fortune 500 Companies. Their core business is to manufacture, market, distribute and sell consumer staple products.

Responsibilities:

• The Application Architect will play a pivotal role in software development activities and long-term initiative planning and collaboration across the Strategy & Transformation (S&T) organization. Software Engineering is the cornerstone of scalable digital transformation across our client value chain. This leader will establish an end-to-end vision of the overall application design and provide technology leadership to the application architecture in terms of focus, technical direction, and breadth of coverage of relevant technologies.
• Deliver Integration architecture for enterprise systems including source systems, data foundation and application layer. 
• Demonstrated passion for excellence with respect to Engineering services, education, and support. 
• Strong interpersonal skills, ability to navigate through a complex and matrixed internal environment. 
• Ability to work collaboratively with regional and global partners in other functional units. 
• Ability to navigate a complex organization and to influence and lead people across cultures at a senior level.

Strategy​: 

• Create the vision and guide a team of engineers to build and support digital products and services (DPS) across S&T products.
• Lead multi-discipline, high-performance work teams distributed across remote locations effectively. Build, manage, develop, and mentor a team of engineers.  
• Interact with executives across the company to lead the narrative around software engineering  
• Manage and appropriately escalate delivery impediments, risks, issues, and changes tied to the engineering initiatives to the stakeholders. 
• Develop application architecture strategy in alignment with the Business goals​. 
• Manages an application architecture governance process develops, communicates and ensures adherence to architecture processes, principles, policies and standards for the enterprise​ 
• Review business drivers and strategies understands the implications to the application architecture and identifies/mitigates risks to solutions. ​ 
• Champion and communicate the application architecture to the business leaders and contracting teams, associating the implication of the architecture to objectives/drivers/goals. ​ 

Architect: 

• Define development guidelines and standards to be utilized in application development and integration​. 
• Analyze the current IT ecosystem application architecture to identify weaknesses and develop opportunities for improvements​. 
• Define transition steps and strategy from the current to the future application architecture​. 
• Define the conceptual and detailed architecture for the development of applications and oversee the evolution of that architecture as the platform is deployed across the entire organization​ 
• Develop methods to integrate systems that interact and extend across organizational and functional lines​. 
• Develop and maintain IT ecosystem application architecture models, processes and documentation. 

Innovate: 

• Identify emerging technologies that can enable the overall business architecture.​ 
• Contribute to the development of proof of concepts or prototypes.​ 
• Partners with associates to build a comprehensive reference architecture, examine existing frameworks and prepare for the future.

Requirements:

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field is required.
• Master’s or PhD in Computer Science or Engineering preferred. 
• Minimum of 10 years of relevant software development and engineering leadership experience 
• 7+ years of experience on application architecture for high scale distributed systems. 
• Web and mobile application experience 
• Full stack engineering experience w/React + Java OR React +Python (Focus will be more backend related).
• Commanding knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented design  
• Working knowledge of programming languages beyond C#, Java, C or C++ (e.g. Ruby, Python, Perl).  
• Experience with Azure, Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services and cloud specific PaaS and SaaS solutions.  
• Experience with mission critical, 24x7 systems. 
• Experience with high throughput cloud native distributed systems  
• Experience implementing and consuming large-scale web services.  
• Deep knowledge of design patterns.  

Preferred Skills:  

• Experience in SAP system implementation, customization, configuration, and integration. 
• Familiarity with SAP integration performance tuning and optimization techniques. 
• SAP certifications (e.g., SAP Certified Enterprise Architect) are a plus. 
• Proficiency in SAP modules and technologies, including SAP S/4HANA, SAP BI/BW, SAP ECC PI/PO. 
• Experience in solution architecture for O9 supply chain planning software 
• Experience in Integrated business planning and supply chain technologies. 

Qualities: 

• Strong attention to detail and extremely well-organized. 
• Ability to run a large team of software engineers .
• Ability to manage multiple projects with competing priorities. 
• Ability to be able to interface with the business and recognize their needs and priorities .