Solution Architect: Sales (REMOTE)

McCormick & Company

19h • Hybrid

About The Position

The Solution Architect is accountable for defining and owning the architecture strategy and multi‑year technology roadmap for a specific product. This role leads the development of the product’s conceptual and logical architecture, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, resilient, and aligned with enterprise standards and business objectives. Acting as the primary architectural authority for the product, the Solution Architect partners closely with product management, engineering, security, and infrastructure teams to translate business capabilities into cohesive technology designs. The role provides architectural direction throughout the product lifecycle, guiding solution decisions, governing adherence to standards, and identifying opportunities to modernize platforms, reduce technical debt, and enable future innovation.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree
• 6-9 Years of IT experience, with a significant amount of time spent in an engineering / architecture role.
• Operating in an Agile software development environment with tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps etc.
• Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal skills needed to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Proven track record of designing highly complex global architecture designs.
• Experience of participating in complex global projects, processes, and systems.

Responsibilities

• Works on complex projects that require in-depth knowledge of a specialized capability within their architecture domain, providing architectural designs and guidance.
• Provides direction, guidance, and definition of IT architecture to effectively support the product and business strategy. Supports a specific architecture discipline and champions’ architectural initiatives according to the corporate standards
• Consults with project teams to fit projects to established architecture patterns, as well as to identify when it is necessary to modify the standard architectural patterns. Ensures the conceptual completeness of the technical solutions.
• 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 recommend 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.
• Maintain continuous personal learning and development to remain technological relevancy in current and emerging
• Perform other responsibilities as assigned by Supervisor.

Benefits

• 401k
• health insurance
• paid time off
• Competitive compensation
• Career growth opportunities
• Flexibility and Support for Diverse Life Stages and Choices
• Wellbeing programs
• 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
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees