Position Overview:
The Solution Architect role, within the Global Customer and Commercial team, reports to the Customer and Commercial Delivery Lead. The purpose of the role is to design IT solutions that meet the needs of the business and that are in keeping with the Coca-Cola IT Architecture and Standards.
If you want to be in the driving seat of change and innovation that brings undeniable value to the core business, this is the role for you! Join us! We’d love to speak with you and to hear more about your professional endeavors.
What You’ll Do for Us:
- Partner with key business stakeholders and IT Service Managers to understand the strategy and needs of the business stakeholders
- Liaise with Global IT Architecture and Delivery Centre staff to understand and improve IT architectures and standards
- Design and implement solutions that are in line with architectural patterns and standards or work with vendor architects to ensure adherence
- Work with agile teams to ensure alignment of delivered solution with defined target architecture and understanding of technical debt incurred
- Provide thought leadership in Technology, focused but not limited to the global customer and commercial and data and analytics technologies
- Guide and lead internal and external delivery teams in the development and implementation of solutions that are functionally and operationally fit for purpose
- Make sure solutions are compliant with Coca-Cola development and security standards
- Identify areas of reuse and make buy vs build decisions taking into consideration TCO of solutions
- Maintain architectural documentation in accordance with the global architecture team standards
- Explain architecture standards and recommendations to business partners and drive alignment
- Educate fellow IT staff on the ‘art of the possible’ with new and existing technologies
This functional role has responsibility for end-to-end architecture of Solutions being delivered to the Global TCCC ecosystem. This leader will be accountable for transforming business opportunities into comprehensive integrated solutions that deliver differentiating capabilities.
The Role is accountable for:
- Alignment of solutions to Architectural principles, standards, and patterns.
- The level of reuse of technology across The Coca-Cola System
- Adding to the architecture knowledge repository
- Delivery and sign-off of solution architecture across the globe for the Customer and Commercial
- Driving the adoption of our global solutions into the marketplace
- Evolving the architecture to keep Coca-Cola at the forefront of technology
Qualifications & Requirements:
- Bachelor’s Degree in computer science or equivalent work experience
- Minimum 5 years of working experience, whereof at least 2 years of IT architecture/design experience.
- Proven participation and contribution to the development of large-scale global solutions.
The successful candidate will demonstrate experience in the following:
- Strong desire and commitment to deliver working solutions that are used by the business
- Expert Knowledge of Microsoft Azure
- Proven understanding data integration and analytical enterprise platforms
- Proven experience in integration of SaaS solutions into enterprise ecosystem and with enterprise integration platforms.
- Solid understanding of security and how it applies to consumer facing applications and IoT
- Strong customer focus with demonstrated push for value and continuous improvement
- Experience working in a multinational, distributed team, with in-house and external delivery resources (on-shore and off-shore).
- Experience with agile delivery methodology will be an asset.
Functional Skills:
- Practical experience with as many of the following as possible. Certification(s) are a plus:
- Solution Architecture and Exposure to Enterprise Architecture
- Business Analysis \ Project Management
- Technology Focused
- Strategic Thinking
- Design Thinking
- Agile Delivery
- Problem solving
- Presentation skills: Ability to communicate technical topics to business audience.
- Be able to collaborate across all levels of the organization
- Negotiation
What We Can Do for You:
- Innovation & Technology: The ability to work with an award-winning team that is on the cutting edge of innovation.
- Exposure to World Class Leaders: Availability to global technology leaders that will expand your network and exposure you to emerging technologies and techniques.
- Agile Work Environment: We embrace agile with management that believes in removing barriers, so you are empowered to experiment, iterate and innovate.
Skills:
Problem Solving; Strategic Thinking; Agile Methodologies; Software as a Service (SaaS); Data Integration; Microsoft Azure; Solution Architecture; Data Analytics
Our Purpose and Growth Culture:
We are taking deliberate action to nurture an inclusive culture that is grounded in our company purpose, to refresh the world and make a difference. We act with a growth mindset, take an expansive approach to what’s possible and believe in continuous learning to improve our business and ourselves. We focus on four key behaviors – curious, empowered, inclusive and agile – and value how we work as much as what we achieve. We believe that our culture is one of the reasons our company continues to thrive after 130+ years. Visit Our Purpose and Vision to learn more about these behaviors and how you can bring them to life in your next role at Coca-Cola.
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