Enterprise Architect - Cloud & Compute

Job Title: Enterprise Architect - Cloud & Compute

About the Function:

Our Digital and Technology (D&T) team are innovators, delivering ground-breaking solutions that will help craft the future of our iconic brands. Technology touches every part of our business, from the sourcing of balanced ingredients to marketing and development of our online platforms. We utilise data insights to build competitive advantage, supporting our people to deliver value faster.

Our D&T team includes some of the most dedicated digital professionals in the industry. Every day, we come together to push boundaries and innovate, shaping the digital solutions of tomorrow. Whatever your passion, we'll help you become the best you can be, creating career-defining work and delivering breakthrough thinking.

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About the role:

The "Enterprise Architect - Cloud & Compute " role will report into the Enterprise Architecture Security & Network Domain Lead and will be passionate about 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 collaborators 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.

Role Responsibilities:

• Critical thinking to take business strategies into architecture
• Collaborating with business partners 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 ground breaking 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 customers to ensure alignment to the architecture strategy, vision and principles
• Governing the changes in Cloud and Compute to ensure they are strategically aligned, provide value for money, and are fit for purpose, whilst handling 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 maintaining 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

• Proven expertise with architecting, designing and implementing solutions in a global enterprise environment
• In-depth knowledge and confirmed 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
• Expert solid understanding of both Information Technology (IT) and Operations Technology (OT) environments.

• Aggressive and strategic problem solver - able to develop stretching and ambitious future vision
• Fantastic communicator - able to articulate and sell the vision to senior collaborators
• Demonstrated ability to deliver integrated Business-IT strategy, establishing a high level of trust among both business and technical customers
• Building International and multi-functional relationships to drive engagement
• Experience working with executive sponsors and senior business leadership teams developing and delivering strategy and operating plans with demonstrated competency