UNFI · 20 hours ago
Enterprise Architect Principal - Remote
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/Staff
10+ years expUNFI is a company focused on delivering innovative solutions in the grocery and distribution industry. The Enterprise Architect Principal is responsible for leading enterprise-wide system architecture and providing strategic direction for application architecture plans and system design. This role involves collaborating with stakeholders and guiding engineers to ensure effective system solutions across the enterprise.
Food and BeverageHealth CareHospitalityOrganic Food
Responsibilities
Leverages advanced technical skills to define principles that guide technology decisions for the enterprise and provide broad understanding of platforms and applications across all technologies
Creates the architecture development and evaluates current architecture and provides recommendations and design solutions for the enterprise
Evaluates existing systems to determine effectiveness, and suggest changes to meet organizational requirements
Collaborate and guide engineers or software developers to select appropriate design solutions or ensure the compatibility of system components
Communicate and partner with internal team members and senior stakeholders to understand specific system requirements and provides recommendations and technical guidance
Define and analyze objectives, overall scope issues, and organizational impacts of systems
Incorporates SOA principles into enterprise architecture design, including identifying opportunities for common services and service reuse
Investigates system components suitability for specified business purposes and makes recommendations regarding the system use
Participates in the research and maintains knowledge in emerging technologies and possible application to the business, focusing on two or more areas specific to the grocery/distribution industry
Partners with fellow architects, engineers, and security to direct the development and operation of systems and can translate business needs into system development
Provides strategic advice on project costs, design concepts, or design changes included risks and assessment of decisions
Communicate project information to senior stakeholders that includes technical reporting and high visibility presentations
Directs the overall installation of systems, networks, or application software
Train system engineers in operations and maintenance
Performs other relevant job duties as required
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in computer science, systems analysis, or a related study
10+ years of overall relevant IT experience
6+ years of experience with enterprise architecture, software architecture, and design patterns
6+ years of experience with complex architectural patterns (SOA), building APIs microservices, and event driven design
Deep experience with software design and delivers on cloud platforms (such as AWS) with an understanding of economic and business models for software in the cloud
6+ overall software development experience on multi-tiered systems
Experience with S/4 Hana and Lean-ix Integration and usage, or familiarity with SAP Reference Architecture
Understanding of Enterprise Architecture Tools, preferably Lean-ix
Understanding of hybrid cloud architecture using the principle of Well-Architected Framework
Strong teamwork and interpersonal skills; ability to communicate and influence at all management levels and with both technical and non-technical individuals and successfully manage in a cross-functional environment and remote locations
Strong analytical, problem-solving and conceptual skills
Ability to effectively collaborate in a matrixed environment
Ability to effectively adapt to rapidly changing technology and apply it to business needs
Strong project management skills; experience organizing, planning and executing large-scale projects from vision through implementation, involving internal and external resources
In depth and breadth knowledge across multiple software engineering disciplines
Advanced knowledge of Cloud Native Architectures, in particular architecting enterprise applications on public cloud such as AWS, GCP or Azure
Advanced knowledge of meCommerce in a retail or wholesale organization
Good judgment is required for this position as there may be times when direct supervision may not be immediately available
Preferred
Understanding modern data architectures, nice to have Databricks experience
Benefits
Paid Time Off
Sick Time
Paid holidays and parental leave
401K Program
Medical, dental, vision, life, and accidental death/dismemberment insurance
Short-term and long-term disability insurance program
Flexible Spending Account and/or Health Savings Account
Company
UNFI
UNFI is North America’s Premier Food Wholesaler.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$507.1M2024-04-25Post Ipo Debt· $500M
2014-07-15Post Ipo Equity· $7.1M
1996-11-01IPO
Leadership Team
Sandy Douglas
Chief Executive Officer
Giorgio Matteo Tarditi
President and CFO
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