Senior Director, Enterprise Architecture and Strategy

Sysco

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Director, Enterprise Architecture and Strategy leads Sysco’s IT architecture function and develops multi-year technology strategies aligned with business objectives. The role guides enterprise, domain, and solution architecture practices across applications, infrastructure, data, and AI, ensuring technology decisions meet business needs, comply with enterprise standards, and support long-term platform direction. The leader maintains the enterprise technology roadmap and establishes an operating and staffing model balancing federated architects embedded in business and technology domains with deeply technical solution architects. The position focuses on technology innovation and modernization, including AI, cloud platforms, data architecture, integration, infrastructure resilience, and cost efficiency. It leads a global architecture organization and matrixed architecture community, advises executive leaders, and partners with business and technology stakeholders to align investments and delivery with organizational priorities. The position is hybrid, with on-site presence three to four days per week; on-site attendance may increase based on business needs. Travel is up to 25%.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
At least 10 years of management experience leading software engineering or infrastructure teams in a cloud environment.
Demonstrated expertise in cloud platforms, microservices, and AI/ML technologies.
Experience developing and executing large-scale technology roadmaps and managing cross-functional teams.
Strong leadership, architecture governance, stakeholder engagement, and technical judgment skills.
Broad experience across legacy systems, modern cloud platforms, data, AI, integration, security, and infrastructure technologies.
Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree preferred.

Responsibilities

Set enterprise architecture strategy across applications, infrastructure, data, and AI in support of business priorities and long-term technology direction.
Lead modernization of global infrastructure to improve stability, security, resilience, and cost efficiency.
Develop and govern technology roadmaps, standards, architecture patterns, and approved development tools.
Align technology investments and architecture roadmaps with business objectives and organizational priorities.
Manage relationships and partnerships across Operations, Commercial, HR, Finance, and technology teams, and develop annual investment plans.
Establish an architecture staffing and engagement model for federated architects and technical solution architects.
Drive innovation, including AI, and oversee financial technology operations such as Cloud FinOps and disaster recovery and resiliency planning.
Direct IT architecture strategy and governance for technology selection and delivery across businesses, applications, platforms, and technology services.
Modernize Sysco’s technology portfolio to improve experiences for customers and team members and enable business strategy through technology.
Advise the CDIO and Executive Leadership Team on external trends, architectural best practices, and adherence to standards.
Establish and chair an architecture governance board or Enterprise Architecture Review Board to oversee architecture decisions and effective use of IT resources and assets.
Partner with business and IT leaders to keep architecture roadmaps aligned with business objectives.
Lead and mentor a global team and federated community of enterprise, domain, and solution architects.
Develop technology roadmaps that meet current business needs while enabling innovation; assess trends and guide the evaluation and adoption of tools, technologies, and platforms.
Translate enterprise architecture strategy into actionable roadmaps, standards, and design patterns.
Optimize cloud spending across IaaS, SaaS, and other services and forecast future usage.
Develop and maintain multi-year infrastructure technology plans.
Lead cross-functional teams and internal and external resources in delivering technical solutions.
Lead financial planning and budgeting for Platform Services and Digital Infrastructure and manage large-scale infrastructure investments within governance frameworks.
Promote continuous learning and improvement of architecture teams’ skills and processes.