Job Description :

About us

With over 200 brands sold in more than 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. Every day, over 27,000 dedicated people come together at Diageo to build the magic behind our much-loved brands. From iconic names to innovative newcomers – the brands we’re building are rooted in culture and local communities. Our ambition is to be one of the best performing, most trusted and most respected consumer products companies in the world.

About the function

Diageo’s global Enterprise Architecture team encourages and architects Diageo’s future with breakthrough technology, distinguishing Diageo as the industry leader which others strive to follow.

We are a trusted and strategic partner to our business and colleagues across our global Digital & Technology function. We act as an internal consultancy, anticipating the future capabilities required for our business to achieve its high-reaching goals and build the vision for our coordinated technology landscape across all of our functions: sales, marketing, manufacturing, human resources, etc.

About the role

The "Enterprise Architect – Cloud & Compute " role will report into the Enterprise Architecture Security & Network Domain Lead and will be focused on developing the target architecture, standards and roadmaps to achieve Diageo’s business goals through a multi-cloud strategy. This role will partner closely with the Cloud, Security and Functional Architects along with key stakeholders from Enterprise Services team. A trusted advisor to senior leadership in the Digital & Technology function, the successful candidate will need to demonstrate strong influencing and communication skills to ensure that the strategic EA perspective gains the support required to allow it to become a reality.

The role will involve:

Strategic thinking to take business strategies into architecture

Collaborating with business stakeholders to develop Diageo’s strategic vision for IT/OT and future-state business/technology architecture, developing 3-5 year roadmaps to achieve our business ambitions through technology with key focus on Cloud and Compute Architecture

Providing thought leadership to architect next generation cloud, providing technical direction to D&T leadership around emerging trends and integrating cutting edge technical solutions for products and services

Crafting the target and interim architectures that support the roadmap, leading the review of the maturity assessment of current-state capabilities and the technology selection process for new capabilities

Collaborating with collaborators to ensure alignment to the architecture strategy, vision and principles

Governing the changes in Cloud and Compute to ensure they are strategically aligned, contribute for money, and are fit for purpose, whilst managing architectural risk and debt

Champion adoption of architecture roadmap by working closely with the Enterprise Services team

Influence portfolio investments for key technology solutions in line with our roadmaps

Building and managing relationships with technology vendors and suppliers

Maintaining knowledge of external trends and business priorities to proactively identify transformation opportunities in our data centre and cloud technologies

Education, Skills & Experience:

Demonstrated expertise with architecting, designing and implementing solutions in a global enterprise environment 

In-depth knowledge and validated experience in developing capability models, reference architecture and technology roadmap artefacts.

Significant experience in the development of strategy and enterprise architecture to enable modern Cloud and Compute capabilities, including:

Consistent track record of designing and implementing Azure and/or AWS services in a variety of distributed computing environments.

Experience with service oriented architecture for cloud-based services.

Deep knowledge on the tools for the security, deployment, implementation, management, monitoring and reporting of Cloud workloads.

Experience with public cloud automation DevOps tools and techniques

Demonstrated experience delivering automation and other optimization techniques to modernize legacy infrastructure

Experience in evaluating and implementing appropriate storage and container solutions

Experience with infrastructure automation technologies

Successful track record selecting and evaluating new network technology that provide the foundations for innovative and scalable enterprise practices

Solid grasp of both Information Technology (IT) and Operations Technology (OT) environments.

Leadership:

Ambitious and strategic problem solver – able to develop stretching and high-reaching future vision

Fantastic communicator – able to articulate and sell the vision to senior customers

Demonstrable ability to deliver coordinated Business-IT strategy, establishing a high level of trust among both business and technical team members

Building International and multi-functional relationships to drive engagement

Experience working with executive sponsors and senior business leadership teams designing and delivering strategy and operating plans with demonstrated proficiency

Worker Type :

Regular

Primary Location:

Bangalore Karle Town SEZ

Additional Locations :

Budapest

Job Posting Start Date :

2024-02-13