Solutions Architect at Diageo

Job Description

External Job Description

Level: Senior Management Level

Reports To: The Lead Solutions Architect

Context of the role

Diageo Business Services (DBS) is a multi-functional global shared services function, created to further improve business efficiency and empower our markets to focus on our commercial growth.

We have transformed how we deliver services to the markets:

• Single point of responsibility to manage relationships, shape demand, & manage service and outcome delivery
• Standardized business service lines to drive efficiency and scalability
• Insight-focused business analytics service
• Market outcome focused services, underpinned by efficient IT process management
• More control, cost efficiency and transparency of application delivery
• One DBS strategy supported by strategic multi-year financial goals and modelling
• Transparent /differentiated pricing to drive standardization and year-on-year efficiency improvements
• Within DBS, Diageo has a Global 'Enterprise Architecture' group with responsibility to Simplify, Optimise and Digitise Diageo.

Role Description

The 'Regional Solutions Architect' roles will report into the Lead, Solution Architecture and will be focused on engaging project teams and Enterprise Architects in designing technical solutions in support of Diageo’s business and technical initiatives. The roles available cover the following areas:

• Solution Architect – NAM (North America)
• Solution Architect – LAC (Latin America & Caribbean)
• Solution Architect – APAC (Asia Pacific)
• Solution Architect – Europe
• Solution Architect – Africa

Leadership Responsibilities

Each 'Solutions Architect’ role will be responsible for:

• Partnering with the relevant IS BRM organization to identify and design technical solutions across a range of technologies/platforms/providers
• Provide thought leadership to challenge and influence all technical designs to best leverage the capabilities of our platforms
• Continual expansion of your architecture knowledge, constantly seeking ways to broaden exposure to the latest and greatest trends and developments in the technology space
• Tightly Integrating With The Rest Of Enterprise Architecture, Including
• Analytics architecture
• Platform architecture
• Technical architecture to ensure all solutions are designed in accordance with the Diageo reference architecture

Qualifications and Experience

• Demonstrated broad working knowledge of relevant technologies for each role including, but not limited to: SAP, Office 365, CRM, WorkDay, SaaS, PaaS, mobile device integration, single sign-on, etc.
• Demonstrated expertise delivering solutions involving different categories of data (structured, semi-structured, unstructured). Demonstrated architecture experience with web or portal based solutions. Demonstrated experience championing, designing, and implementing innovative solutions to problems.
• Knowledge and experience with architecting, designing and implementing large scale IS programs.
• Experience with technical design (application, information, integration and infrastructure)
• Knowledge and experience with architecting, designing and implementing cloud-based solutions
• 10 years demonstrated experience successfully delivering information technologies business solutions for large-scale global applications across multiple hardware and software platforms
• Some experience of implementing or utilizing relevant integration platforms including BODS, SAP PO, or comparable. Leading solution design during all phases of development and deployment.