Solution Architect

Job Title: Solution Architect

About us: With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, we're the world's leading premium drinks company. Bring your passion and use your curiosity as you explore, collaborate, and innovate to build brands consumers love. Together with passionate people from all over the world, you'll test new insights, learn and grow, and unlock a brighter, more exciting future.

Join us to create a career worth celebrating.

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.

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About the role:

The Solution Architect plays a pivotal role in designing and governing the technology landscape that enables Diageo's global manufacturing and logistics operations. Working with the Global Architecture Lead - Supply & Procurement, this role ensures that end-to-end solutions across manufacturing sites, warehouses, and logistics networks are architecturally sound, secure, and strategically aligned with Diageo's enterprise vision.

Operating within the Enterprise Architect team, the role connects digital Supply transformation, ensuring solutions are scalable, integrated, and deliver measurable business outcomes. It provides architectural leadership and governance across all key strategic projects, ensuring consistency with Diageo's reference architectures, security standards, and enterprise compliance frameworks.

As a trusted advisor and inspiring leader, the Solution Architect partners with Enterprise Architects, Value Stream Leads, Global Engineering, Supply Chain, and Business Technology teams to harmonize IT, OT, and logistics ecosystems-enabling smarter, more connected, and data-driven supply operations across Diageo's global footprint.

Role Responsibilities:

End-to-End Solution Design & Governance

• Lead design and integration of Manufacturing IT, OT, and Logistics solutions aligned with enterprise and security standards.
• Translate business and operational needs into sustainable, site-ready solution designs for different initiatives such as smart factory, MES, Warehouse management, Transport management.
• Implement architecture governance across programs to ensure quality, compliance, and consistency & align all solutions with Diageo's Enterprise Architecture, Supply Chain, and Procurement strategies.
• Ensure delivery partners follow approved designs and architectural principles and provide right forums to bring for governance

• Partner with Engineering, SAP, Supply Operations, Cybersecurity, Integration and Infrastructure for seamless IT/OT integration.
• Collaborate with global and regional teams to apply consistent architecture practices.
• Influence multi-functional teams to balance cost, risk, reducing technical debt and improve performance in design decisions.

• Evolve the Supply especially Manufacturing IT, OT & Logistics architecture roadmap to drive efficiency and sustainability.
• Explore new technologies in automation, IIoT, and digital logistics to improve operations.
• Share standard processes and lessons learned to strengthen global delivery and architecture maturity.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field (Master's preferred).

• 12-15 years of experience designing and delivering Manufacturing IT & OT solutions in large, global enterprises (preferably FMCG).
• Strong background in architecting digital manufacturing ecosystems across IT and OT layers (Level 0-5).
• Experience defining architecture standards, blueprints, and reference models for MES, LIMS, PCS/DCS, SCADA, IIoT, and data integration solutions.
• Validated experience with hybrid environments (SaaS, Cloud, and On-Premises) integrating enterprise platforms (e.g., SAP, Anaplan) with plant-floor systems.
• Knowledge of manufacturing cybersecurity frameworks, network segmentation (ISA-95, Purdue Model), and data integration patterns between IT and OT systems.
• Understanding of process and discrete manufacturing systems, PLCs, historian databases, and edge analytics.
• Have a good understanding of Digital Supply applications and Data products like Databricks to help in the future for Supply chain
• TOGAF or equivalent certification preferred.

• Significant knowledge of Supply (Plan, Make, Move technical and sustainability) within the large global organization (Preferably CPG), including Key business processes related to this area
• Experience in agile delivery methods and in working with agile delivery teams.
• Have a good working solution knowledge for SAP processes and Data lakes to ensure solutions are detailed

• Expertise in one or more of: Siemens, Rockwell Automation, OSIsoft PI, Kepware, Azure IoT, or similar platforms.
• Familiarity with industrial communication protocols (OPC UA, MQTT, Modbus, etc.) and data exchange architectures.
• Experience implementing solutions with Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES), Data Lake architectures, and IoT platforms.

• Tried understanding of cloud integration, data governance, and industrial cybersecurity.

• Proven ability to influence and align multi-functional and cross-regional participants.
• Experience working with senior business and technology leaders to deliver architecture-led transformation.
• Strategic and analytical problem solver with the ability to simplify complex technical concepts for non-technical audiences.
• Strong communication and presentation skills; able to articulate architecture decisions to senior collaborators.
• Confirmed ability to cultivate collaboration between IT, Engineering, and Operations.
• Passion for innovation and continuous improvement in Supply and digital technology.

• Critical Thinking - Ability to translate business goals into executable architecture strategies.
• Collaboration - Strong partnership approach with global and local teams.
• Technical Leadership - Confirmed capacity to guide project delivery through architecture direction.
• Innovation Orientation - Curiosity to explore and apply emerging technologies (AI/ML, digital twins, advanced analytics).
• Governance & Compliance - Commitment to maintaining global architecture standards, security, and performance integrity.