Sr Expert IT Solution Architect - Supply Chain
IT at Nestlé
Arlington, Virginia
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March 20, 2023
IT at Nestlé
Arlington, Virginia
Nestlé Information Technology is the digital arm of the world's largest nutrition, health, and wellness company. With 150+ years in business, 2,000+ brands, and 270,000+ diverse team members-you're joining an organization that's revolutionizing food and championing global humanitarian efforts with technology at its core.
Joining Nestlé IT means you'll never stop learning and sharpening new skills. Tools, technologies, and innovation for the next generation of food is part of it. Working with team members from different cultures and corners of the world on truly meaningful initiatives is what makes our work inspiring. Think beyond technology. Feel like you belong. Join a Force for Good.
We are a team of professionals from many countries and diverse backgrounds, each with unique missions and challenges in the biggest health, nutrition and wellness company of the world. We innovate every day through forward-looking technologies to create opportunities for Nestlé's digital challenges with our consumers, customers and at the workplace. We collaborate with our business partners around the world to deliver products and services to create tangible business value.
As a Sr. Expert Solution Architect, you will be part of the NUSA Supply Chain & Procurement Assembly Team, which supports Nestlé USA business Supply Chain, Procurement, and Descriptive Reporting. You will oversee the support of Solutions Architecture activities within supply chain and procurement while ensuring a fit within the overall product group strategy. You will enable the linkage across business missions, strategies, and processes to the IS/IT digital strategy, as well as be responsible for delivering simplicity, agility, and speed of consuming the IS/IT ecosystem.
Manage the architecture for a broad scope of product platforms while working closely with application architects
Lead the implementation and integration of technical architecture across a product group based on enterprise business strategy, business capabilities, and business requirements
Define and ensure adherence to guidelines, standards, and solution patterns to secure product-based decisions are aligned with the enterprise's future-state architecture vision
Ensure delivery of architecture patterns that effectively leverage data foundation assets and incorporate API led designs
Design and direct the governance activities associated with ensuring product architecture assurance and compliance
Facilitate and execute proof of concepts, a close collaboration with DevOps and suppliers to secure that the value planned will be delivered in the most optimal way
Supervise the design and integration within the scope of the Supply Chain
Apply up-to-date technical acumen and maintain awareness/understanding of emerging technologies and technology trends with the ability to apply them to proposed solutions and evolving business needs and opportunities
Propose architecture solutions that consider technical debt, current business needs, and future-state business capabilities and needs that line up to the organizational mission and goal
Drives the delivery of documented end to end business blueprints including identifying a design approach which delivers against business needs in support of integrated projects and programs
Helps identify product evolution and backlog needs while assisting in the planning of the backlog and identifying and integrating the needed business communities in the definition of user stories as well as measure of success
Identifies and brings collaboration between respective products to support points of integration needs within Supply Chain and across dependent end to end streams
REQUIREMENTS
7+ years of combined experience within IT and Supply Chain
3+ years of experience in solution design and development for at least 2 Supply Chain domains (i.e.: Customer Service, Demand Supply Planning, Global Logistics, Procurement, etc.)
2+ years of experience working in an Agile/ DevOps environment
OTHER
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Systems Analysis, or a related study preferred
Previous experience working in the Consumer-Packaged Goods industry preferred
Experience with Cloud Platform solutions as it relates to ERP preferred
REQUISITION ID:
224281
It is our business imperative to remain a very inclusive workplace.
To our veterans and separated service members, you're at the forefront of our minds as we recruit top talent to join Nestlé. The skills you've gained while serving our country, such as flexibility, agility, and leadership, are much like the skills that will make you successful in this role. In addition, with our commitment to an inclusive work environment, we recognize the exceptional engagement and innovation displayed by individuals with disabilities. Nestlé seeks such skilled and qualified individuals to share our mission where you'll join a cohort of others who have chosen to call Nestlé home.
The Nestlé Companies are an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer seeking diversity in qualified applicants for employment. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, gender, gender identity, age, religion, national origin, ancestry, disability, perceived disability, medical condition, genetic information, veteran status, sexual orientation, or any other protected status, as defined by applicable law. Prior to the next step in the recruiting process, we welcome you to inform us confidentially if you may require any special accommodations in order to participate fully in our recruitment experience. Contact us at or please dial 711 and provide this number to the operator: 1-.
Joining Nestlé IT means you'll never stop learning and sharpening new skills. Tools, technologies, and innovation for the next generation of food is part of it. Working with team members from different cultures and corners of the world on truly meaningful initiatives is what makes our work inspiring. Think beyond technology. Feel like you belong. Join a Force for Good.
We are a team of professionals from many countries and diverse backgrounds, each with unique missions and challenges in the biggest health, nutrition and wellness company of the world. We innovate every day through forward-looking technologies to create opportunities for Nestlé's digital challenges with our consumers, customers and at the workplace. We collaborate with our business partners around the world to deliver products and services to create tangible business value.
As a Sr. Expert Solution Architect, you will be part of the NUSA Supply Chain & Procurement Assembly Team, which supports Nestlé USA business Supply Chain, Procurement, and Descriptive Reporting. You will oversee the support of Solutions Architecture activities within supply chain and procurement while ensuring a fit within the overall product group strategy. You will enable the linkage across business missions, strategies, and processes to the IS/IT digital strategy, as well as be responsible for delivering simplicity, agility, and speed of consuming the IS/IT ecosystem.
Manage the architecture for a broad scope of product platforms while working closely with application architects
Lead the implementation and integration of technical architecture across a product group based on enterprise business strategy, business capabilities, and business requirements
Define and ensure adherence to guidelines, standards, and solution patterns to secure product-based decisions are aligned with the enterprise's future-state architecture vision
Ensure delivery of architecture patterns that effectively leverage data foundation assets and incorporate API led designs
Design and direct the governance activities associated with ensuring product architecture assurance and compliance
Facilitate and execute proof of concepts, a close collaboration with DevOps and suppliers to secure that the value planned will be delivered in the most optimal way
Supervise the design and integration within the scope of the Supply Chain
Apply up-to-date technical acumen and maintain awareness/understanding of emerging technologies and technology trends with the ability to apply them to proposed solutions and evolving business needs and opportunities
Propose architecture solutions that consider technical debt, current business needs, and future-state business capabilities and needs that line up to the organizational mission and goal
Drives the delivery of documented end to end business blueprints including identifying a design approach which delivers against business needs in support of integrated projects and programs
Helps identify product evolution and backlog needs while assisting in the planning of the backlog and identifying and integrating the needed business communities in the definition of user stories as well as measure of success
Identifies and brings collaboration between respective products to support points of integration needs within Supply Chain and across dependent end to end streams
REQUIREMENTS
7+ years of combined experience within IT and Supply Chain
3+ years of experience in solution design and development for at least 2 Supply Chain domains (i.e.: Customer Service, Demand Supply Planning, Global Logistics, Procurement, etc.)
2+ years of experience working in an Agile/ DevOps environment
OTHER
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Systems Analysis, or a related study preferred
Previous experience working in the Consumer-Packaged Goods industry preferred
Experience with Cloud Platform solutions as it relates to ERP preferred
REQUISITION ID:
224281
It is our business imperative to remain a very inclusive workplace.
To our veterans and separated service members, you're at the forefront of our minds as we recruit top talent to join Nestlé. The skills you've gained while serving our country, such as flexibility, agility, and leadership, are much like the skills that will make you successful in this role. In addition, with our commitment to an inclusive work environment, we recognize the exceptional engagement and innovation displayed by individuals with disabilities. Nestlé seeks such skilled and qualified individuals to share our mission where you'll join a cohort of others who have chosen to call Nestlé home.
The Nestlé Companies are an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer seeking diversity in qualified applicants for employment. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, gender, gender identity, age, religion, national origin, ancestry, disability, perceived disability, medical condition, genetic information, veteran status, sexual orientation, or any other protected status, as defined by applicable law. Prior to the next step in the recruiting process, we welcome you to inform us confidentially if you may require any special accommodations in order to participate fully in our recruitment experience. Contact us at or please dial 711 and provide this number to the operator: 1-.
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