Enterprise Architect, Data & Analytics (HYBRID)

McCormick & Company • HUNT VALLEY, MD

11d • $121,900 - $219,410 • Hybrid

About The Position

McCormick is seeking an Enterprise Architect, Data & Analytics to join their team. This role will be based in Hunt Valley, Maryland, with a hybrid work arrangement (50/50). The Enterprise Architect will act as a key advisor to business unit and functional leadership, contributing to McCormick's Enterprise Architecture (EA) strategy. This involves understanding business needs and roadmaps, solving complex technology and business problems, building capabilities, and shaping technology strategy. The role requires acting as a primary architecture domain expert, leading the development of architecture strategy, roadmaps, and guardrails, and utilizing business capability models and technology reference models to guide investment decisions. The architect will also represent capability domain needs within Enterprise Architecture, track and apply emerging technologies, and influence EA and Global IT's strategic goals by maintaining awareness of value streams, business capability maps, and architecture roadmap changes. The position emphasizes pragmatic alignment to global IT standards and EA Guiding Principles.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree
• 8+ Years of IT experience, with a significant amount of time spent in an engineering / architecture role
• Significant, well-rounded business acumen for the CPG industries; Significant depth in the focus business architecture domain and technical architecture domain (infrastructure, applications, integration, information & data, cyber security, etc.)
• Familiarity with information management practices, regulatory requirements and data privacy laws, especially those that uniquely effect the pharmaceutical industry
• Knowledge of business ecosystems, SaaS, infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), SOA, APIs, ERP, microservices, event-driven IT and predictive analytics
• Ability to define and communicate compelling, business-enabling technology vision and the business value of this vision, along with actionable roadmaps to achieve target state architecture across people, process, and technology dimensions.
• Demonstrated proficiency in leading and influencing cross-functional teams. Able to gain buy-in and promote shared ownership of projects
• Master of the art of change management through effective communication, planning, and execution
• Ability to work with significant autonomy of decision-making and self-direction to drive leading business and IT outcomes while remaining aligned to the evolving Takeda Enterprise Architecture target state architecture
• Ability to multi-task with a sense of urgency, while taking a rigorous, structured approach
• Adept at developing meaningful “trusted advisor” relationships with EA’s business and technical stakeholders of all levels
• Proven ability to work well with people from different disciplines and with varying degrees of business or technical knowledge
• Proven ability to communicate clearly both in verbal and written forms to the all organizational levels
• Exposure to agile ways of working, such as Scrum / SAFe and DevOps methodologies
• Solid grasp of the strategic technologies McCormick needs to act on and operationalize in the next three to five years
• Demonstrated ability to create and share relevant enabling architecture guidance or reference architectures in support of innovation

Responsibilities

• Works on complex projects that require in-depth knowledge of a specialized capability within their architecture domain, providing architectural designs and guidance.
• Act as a trusted advisor in service to Product Line leader on the Product Line leadership team. Work to solve the product lines challenges through design, strategy, and solutions
• Lead solution architecture within projects and products to align to enterprise strategy and standards while pragmatically solving for the requirements and optimization both within the product and across the enterprise.
• Participates in the creation of governing principles and standards to guide architecture decision making.
• Identifies exceptions to architectural standards at an enterprise level and facilitates resolution.
• Reviews and/or analyzes and develops architectural and security requirements as needed for the organization.
• Performs research on emerging technologies in support of systems development efforts and recommends technologies that will improve cost effectiveness and systems flexibility.
• Develop, document, and communicate plans for investing in systems architecture, including analysis of cost reduction opportunities.

Benefits

• 401k
• health insurance
• paid time off
• Competitive compensation
• Career growth opportunities
• Flexibility and Support for Diverse Life Stages and Choices
• Comprehensive health plans covering medical, vision, dental, life and disability benefits
• Family-friendly benefits such as paid parental leave, fertility benefits, Employee Assistance Program, and caregiver support
• Retirement and investment programs including 401(k) and profit-sharing plans

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior