Architect, Sales Capability, Operations & Information Services

Your Opportunity as the Architect, Sales Capability, Operations & Information Services Recommends technology solutions by evaluating business needs, efficiency and effectiveness of current tech stacks, and industry trends.
Solves unique and complex problems impacting a domain, with a keen understanding of touchpoints with adjacent areas and relationships to business process.
Will work with other Architects to build and maintain long-term application and technology roadmaps for business customer’s domain of Trade Promotion Management and Analytics.
Applies Smucker Architecture methodologies to address current business needs and objectives.
Location: Orrville, OH (Close proximity to Cleveland/Akron) Work Arrangements: Hybrid ~30% in office presence In this role you will: Evaluate, internalize, and implement architectures in accordance with Smucker Architectural best practices and standards.
Ensure alignment of solution delivery with domain and enterprise strategy.
Socialize key concepts with project and product teams.
Works with team members to internalize and apply learnings to solution delivery.
Guide the team on knowing when to invest in tech or focus on delivery (appropriate ROI over strategic horizons).
Be involved with introducing/operationalizing new cloud tools, data engineering, integrations, and application technologies.
Review existing and upcoming data pipelines or application architectures to ensure automation is utilized where possible.
Advance the technical discipline through advising other leaders’ fundamental application of DevOps, DataOps or MLOps process improvements.
Drive strategy for the team by Investigating technology trends adoption in other companies and within industry.
Proactively utilize research firms to determine enterprise level cloud/modern applications.
Participate in vendor provided offerings (courses, labs, certified architect training or product trainings, especially with existing or industry leading cloud or progressive vendors).
Gain input from other architects on how cloud implementations in their teams impact the current architecture and requires evolution.
Own creation and maintenance of necessary learning paths for tool adoption/proper usage.
Mentor others in the architecture domain.
Solution Delivery (90%) Develop architectural designs that support project and enhancement efforts within their domain with a focus on stability, feasibility, functionality, security, governance, auditing, and scalability.
Draft and present High Level Solution Designs to Architecture Review Boards honoring stage gates - facilitating buy-in pre-meeting from Enterprise Architecture and affected architects.
Ensure proper adoption of selected solutions.
Apply a holistic view of platform integration and understands interrelationships with adjacent disciplines/functions.
Applies advanced techniques and modern IT concepts to solve complex development problems.
Provide high level estimates and staffing requirements for projects in the initiate phase.
Support key business strategy, application, and technology discussions.
Facilitates adoption, rationalization, and influences future state investments.
Ensure timely disposition of applications and technologies.
Regularly validates supportability and timelines of key technology platforms within their domain.
Lead efforts to evaluate new service offerings via RFP's and RFQ's.
Influences direction on solution selection.
Create and update architectural models and artifacts for domains.
Influences overall team documentation depth & breath.
Coach other team members, estimating effort and articulating needs, and executing against solution architecture decisions.
Relies on professional discretion to influence outcomes and achieve goals.
Develop cost saving model.
Challenge new and existing cross-functional architectural strategies to optimize synergies for cost savings opportunities.
Advise team through the process of solution delivery involving complex and/or newer technologies, often requiring research and experimentation to complete.
Partner with external vendors to ensure technology solutions are aligned with internal project goals.
Influences external products/technologies.
Identify opportunities for automation.
Actively engage in IS Strategic Architectural Leadership groups to influence department.
Actively question any High Level Solution Designs, provides alternative solutions and points out risks.
Distribute architectural learnings to team.
Be sought after and leveraged by other architects, leverage learning across org, drive better solutions across IS department.
Solution Support (10%) Help teams use operational data to improve stability and performance of their domains.
Demonstrate proficiency in systematic debugging to diagnose root cause of issues within a set of related domains.
Drive cross-domain maintenance efforts.
Champion an appropriate release/version strategy.
Serve as an escalation point and consults teams on complex support matters.
The Right Place for You We are bold, kind, strive to do the right thing, we play to win, and we believe in a strong community that thrives together.
Our culture is rooted in our Basic Beliefs, and we believe in supporting every employee by meeting their physical, emotional, and financial needs.
What we are looking for: Minimum Requirements: Bachelor’s degree in related field, specialized training or equivalent work experience 8+ years of relevant work experience Specialized depth in particular area(s) of technical discipline.
Proven experience in developing enterprise and solution level architectural designs.
Deep technical experience with large, cross-functional projects that involve implementing and integrating cloud-based and on-premises solutions.
Proven influence in solution design and decisions within software development lifecycle.
Awareness and application of various project management and software development methodologies.
Deep understanding of analytical concepts (dimensions, facts, normalization, joins, querying & grouping, SQL syntax, etc.
) Data Modeling fundamentals in star schema, relational database, and normalized data sets.
Ability to present complex topics in relatable fashion.
Knowledge of technical modeling, diagramming, and presentation tools.
Demonstrates ability to think critically and conceptually.
Leads by helping others succeed through positive motivation, while supporting existing leadership and team norms.
Puts people first, Makes things better.
Technical background in Cloud technologies: AWS /Azure, Lakehouses, Databricks/Snowflake, Query performance optimization/Materialized Views, Data Structures, BI Dashboards Technical background in: SQL: Oracle Database SQL, Spark Development, R/Python Additional skills and experience that we think would make someone successful in this role: Experience in industry frameworks such as ITIL, NIST, COBIT Prior experience in CPG, Trade Systems, Analytics and/or Enterprise Information Services Certifications: AWS Cloud Practitioner, Azure Fundamentals, Data Ethics, TOGAF and/or equivalent architectural certifications Familiarity with Modern IT concepts and cloud-related capabilities (DevOps, DataOps, MLOps, Extensibility, Secure By Design, etc.
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