Principal Engineer, Architect for Integration, Engineering, and Security
About The Position
This role involves owning the architectural direction for enterprise applications across various business units, focusing on both custom-built applications and technology platforms. The architect will support software selection, define architecture patterns, and ensure alignment with information security requirements. A key aspect is designing end-to-end data flows for analytics and AI platforms, ensuring secure data integration and architecting the incorporation of external industry data. The position also requires integrating security practices into application delivery, collaborating with cybersecurity engineering teams, and shaping application change plans. Participation in the enterprise architecture practice, including shared governance and standards, is expected. Additionally, the role requires business domain expertise in retail and consumer packaged goods, acting as a technology advisor to business stakeholders.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree
- 10-12 years experience in relevant field
- Integration architecture between custom / technology platform applications and enterprise resource planning systems
- Data design: Data flows, data model design, master data management principles, and AI technology affinity
- Software selection, pattern definition, and product team partnership
- Enterprise and / or deep solution architecture for custom and technology platform applications
- Business domain expertise, such as retail, consumer packaged goods, field workforce management, services company service delivery, and revenue management
Nice To Haves
- Architecture for both custom-built applications and technology platforms
- Support software selection decisions
- Define architecture patterns
- Ensure architecture achieves information security requirements
- Work alongside engineering teams and product teams as an active, embedded partner in delivery
- Define flows of business operational data for analytics and management reporting and surfacing analytics data into company applications
- Ensure business systems are designed to support emerging AI use cases
- Define integration patterns for data that keep client and company data secure
- Architect the integration of external industry data sources into business applications
- Collaborate as peer with cybersecurity engineering teams
- Jointly design patterns and delivery approaches for maximizing information security
- Ensure coherent data and integration plans
- Shape plans for phases of application change between parallel implementation programs
- Collaborate with peer architects across commercial systems, enterprise systems, data/AI, and infrastructure/security
- Build, advocate, and participate in shared governance, architecture standards, and ways of working
- Contribute to keeping the practice coherent and relevant as the organization's technology agenda grows in complexity
- Have experience in technology and processes such as sales/customer relationship management, category management, retail execution, and field workforce management
- Build credibility as a technology advisor to business stakeholders based on industry operational reality
- Advise on building shared capability, reusability, and user experience within company applications
Responsibilities
- Own the architectural direction for the enterprise applications across application portfolios and their business units.
- Design the end-to-end data flows between commercial and corporate systems and the data and analytics / AI platform.
- Plan and shape integrations between systems that are secure by design.
- Operate as an active member of the enterprise architecture practice.
- Bring working knowledge of retail and consumer packaged goods business processes.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
