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Yum! Brands · 1 day ago

Staff Enterprise Architect

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$145K/yr - $182K/yr

7+ years exp

Yum! Brands is establishing a new Enterprise Architecture practice and is seeking an Enterprise Architect to lead this initiative. The role involves conducting architecture reviews, providing solution architecture guidance, and ensuring alignment between business goals and technology standards.

Food and BeverageHospitalityRestaurants

Growth Opportunities

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Co-own the Organization wide Architecture Review Process. Evaluate project intake based on complexity, new capabilities, vendor involvement, and cross-team impact

Connect project teams with appropriate reviewers and provide architectural guidance based on best practices to drive consistent standards across the organization

Ensure architecture reviews are completed promptly to meet our SLA targets

Provide clear recommendations and approvals through architecture reviews and consultation sessions

Drive innovation by identifying opportunities to leverage emerging technologies, including AI, and designing AI-driven solutions that enhance business capabilities, improve customer experiences, and support digital transformation initiatives

Support development teams with solution architecture activity, crafting designs that align with our enterprise principles, leverage appropriate vendor capabilities and give great return on investment

Offer enterprise architectural context to teams on their proposals

Ensure solutions are scalable, secure, and conform to enterprise standards

Align technology capabilities with business objectives while identifying standardization opportunities

Map applications to business processes to support roadmapping and strategic planning

Maximize platform value through architectural reuse and cross-brand feature sharing

Support efficient capital spend across Brand D&T initiatives

Establish EA governance frameworks and educational materials

Develop adaptive EA governance frameworks that enable standardization while empowering agile delivery teams

Contribute to EA charter and communication plans

Build relationships between product owners and engineers across brands

Communicate architectural concepts to diverse audiences from executives to developers

Secure stakeholder buy-in for EA initiatives

Collaborate with security teams to integrate security considerations into architectural designs and promote secure coding practices across restaurant technologies

Apply knowledge of federated GraphQL platforms to support brand-specific needs

Enable co-creation between global and regional technology teams

Qualification

Solution ArchitectureEnterprise ArchitectureAWSGraphQLAI-driven solutionsSecure software developmentSQLGITAnalytical thinkingCommunication skillsMentoring

Required

7+ years Solution Architecture experience

Experience crafting solutions that advocate secure software development practices in domains sensitive to CCPA, GDPR, PCI, and global tax regulations

5+ years of experience in Enterprise Architecture, specializing in multi-brand and cross-functional environments, ensuring seamless integration and collaboration across diverse teams and platforms

Strong communication skills with ability to influence stakeholders at all levels (c-suite to junior engineers) with small and large audiences across the enterprise

Experience proactively connecting with teams to drive consistency across federated organizational structures

Ability to bridge technical and business perspectives to drive innovative solutions

Experience introducing high impact Enterprise Architecture practices in complex environments

Working knowledge of AWS, IaC, SQL, GraphQL, GIT, DataDog

Preferred

Experience with GoLang, NodeJS, TypeScript, or Rust and Terraform

Experience designing and implementing AI-driven solutions and integrating AI capabilities into existing platforms

Experience designing and implementing across a broad range of tech ecosystems such as federated GraphQL, POS, Kitchen Systems, IoT, Edge Computing, Martech, real time data analytics

Experience influencing secure coding activity, supporting vulnerability assessments, and guiding appropriate use of firewalls, WAFs, CDNs and DAMs

Experience in a related industry or a strong willingness to learn the specifics of the restaurant/QSR sector undergoing digital transformation

Familiarity with restaurant technology ecosystems

Benefits

Employees (and their eligible family members) may enroll in the following types of insurance coverage: medical, dental, vision, legal, and accidental death and dismemberment, as well as FSA/HSA (depending on enrolled medical plan).

Yum! also provides short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance.

Employees may enroll in our 401(k) plan.

Yum! provides 4 weeks of vacation, paid sick leave, 10 paid holidays, a floating day off and 2 paid days for volunteer time each calendar year.

Company

Yum! Brands

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Yum! Brands is a quick-service restaurant brand that primarily operates the likes of KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell.

Founded in 1997

Louisville, Kentucky, USA

1001-5000 employees

http://www.yum.com

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