Enterprise Architect - Integrations

Job Title: Enterprise Architect - Integrations

About the Function:

Our Digital and Technology (D&T) team are innovators, delivering ground-breaking solutions that will help shape the future of our iconic brands. Technology touches every part of our business, from the sourcing of sustainable 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.

About the team:

Diageo's Digital and Technology team (D&T) is significantly revising its operating model to support the Diageo business in becoming the best data insights consumer product company. The aim of the revised Operating Model is to:

• Accelerate time to value; optimise the value from our technology spend
• Enhance our strategic capabilities, particularly around data
• Create a stronger 'go to market' approach to better embed solutions

• Co-design the Target Enterprise Data & Integration Architecture to enable digital touchpoints everywhere and unleash the power of our data with an interconnected 360-degree view of our consumers, customers, suppliers and employees
• Drive the simplification and modernization of our Integration landscape
• Define the principles, processes, patterns and artifacts to drive the consistent practice of Integration Architecture across domains
• Advise the Integration Architecture demand management process to ensure reusable integrations are prioritized and designed properly
• Assess our current Integration Architecture maturity and provide clear roadmap with recommendations to create a step change improvement
• Own the technology selection process (when vital) for new capabilities while also developing roadmaps for our standards related to our Integration Architecture maturity
• Ensure architectural alignment and consistency across our Enterprise Integration Architecture by providing active engagement across D&T teams
• Influence portfolio investments for key technology solutions in line with our roadmaps
• Support enterprise programs such as Voyager by providing technical consulting and advisory services to senior internal collaborators on appropriate integration strategy and solutions
• Provide thought leadership to challenge and influence strategic direction ensuring that business process, data, applications, and technology come together to meet business needs
• Continual expansion of your architecture knowledge and network of influence, constantly seeking ways to increase the EA impact at Diageo
• Supply to the overall success of EA, creating an EA leadership impact

• Drive Key Enterprise Initiatives
  
  • Accelerate, simplification and cost-out
  • GenAI: modernizing our architecture approach for systems, integrations and data to be "(Gen)AI-ready"
  • Improving Enterprise Architecture value proposition by improving our core capabilities, roadmaps and maturity
  • Strategic design enablement and governance across strategic programs
• Integration Strategy
  
  • Define the target state model for how Diageo will organize and integrate data flows across Enterprise Domains to achieve our strategic vision
  • Continue the Integration Architecture maturity assessment with recommendations and roadmap for improvement

• Enterprise Integration Architecture Roadmap
  
  • Co-create the roadmap outlining how to evolve to the Target Integration Architecture with key services by domain
  • Outline a clear plan for how we will optimize integration data flows to achieve our strategic imperatives over a 3-5 year timeline

• Integration Architecture Principles, Standards and Processes
  
  • Define a clear set of principles, processes and artifacts standardizing the practice of Integration Architecture across domains (Customer, Consumer, Supply, etc)
  • Advise the Integration Architecture Demand Management Process by establishing objectives and key results for the multi-functional team to standardize the process for any decisions related to critical cross-domain integration flows impacting strategic programs

• Support all activities related to the Data & Integration Capability Reference Model:
  
  • L1, L2 and L3 business and process capabilities
  • AS-IS and TO-BE views of the technology, application, and process landscapes
  • Roadmaps to drive future technology and capability maturity
  • Encompasses both internal (in use) and external (market leading) capabilities to shape and evolve the business strategy

• Architecture Expertise:
  
  • Bachelor's degree in information technology, Computer Science, Statistics, or similar
  • 7+ years of demonstrated ability in IT, with at least two years in information systems design
  • In-depth expertise in Integration Architecture, designing/implementing information solutions and data management programs in the CPG/Pharma/Retail industries
  • Experience in architecting & implementing large-scale, modern, Big Data, Digital, Data Warehousing and/or Enterprise Integration platforms (iPaaS)
  • Undefined

• Functional Expertise:
  
  • MuleSoft or similar iPaaS, SalesForce, Composable Enterprise
  • Possess strong integration skills and a good understanding of a variety of different integration patterns, & protocols (REST, SOAP, JDBC, FTP, SFTP, FTPS, JMS etc)
  • Canonical Data/Service Models, Conceptual/Logical Modeling, Dimensional Modeling
  • DAMA, TOGAF certification preferred

• Leadership:
  
  • Bold and problem solver - able to develop stretching and ambitious future vision
  • Fantastic communicator - able to articulate and sell the vision to senior stakeholders
  • Demonstrated ability to deliver integrated Business-IT strategy
  • Building International and cross functional relationships to drive engagement
  • 5 years' experience working with executive sponsors and senior business leadership teams developing and delivering strategy and operating plans with demonstrated competency