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Florida Crystals · 1 day ago

Enterprise Architect, Cloud & Digital Platforms

West Palm Beach, FL

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

10+ years exp

Florida Crystals is a leading domestic sugar producer and North America’s first fully integrated cane sugar company. They are seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect specializing in cloud, data centers, and AI to shape their technology landscape and drive digital transformation initiatives.

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H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Serve as advisor to functional, technical and tower leaders on business, information and infrastructure and cloud platform technology strategies

Partner with IT leaders and other architects to align on roadmaps to enable strategic capabilities for cloud and digital platform

Understand technology product and vendor strategies, products and roadmaps

Hold decision rights on cloud and platform roadmaps for technology areas working with stakeholders

Define future state architecture vision and develop target architecture roadmaps

Ensure technology investments are fully aligned to deliver maximum value

Ensure adherence to architecture references, Architecture principles and standards for efficient deployments and operations during project definition and implementation

Develop the cloud, platform, HA, SW, Desktop current & future state Architecture

Lead innovation initiatives that are strategic to the organization

Evaluate and employ emerging technologies & industry trends to provide a competitive edge

Provide architectural review in the demand management process

Ensure project conformance and compliance with architecture definition and guidelines, and be an advisory member on blueprint sessions

Identify and Mitigate Architectural Risks that would negatively impact our business/IT strategy, and IT Landscape

Update and maintain the key Architecture deliverables

Actively engaged in Architecture and User Group communities

Qualification

Enterprise ArchitectureCloud ComputingArtificial IntelligenceData Center InfrastructureSAPBPMNArchimateRPACustomer ServiceCommunication SkillsLeadership SkillsProblem Solving

Required

10+ years of experience in relevant IT functions

Develop and maintain the organization's enterprise architecture

Develop and articulate the technology vision, strategy, and roadmap for our organization, leveraging the rest of IT disciplines

Drive IT functions to innovate through resource utilization of technologies such as databases, development tools, hardware and software, networks, security, and emerging technologies

Experience with DBMS's, Operating Systems, Data structures, Networks, Security, IT Business Resumption, Server and storage management, data center monitoring and optimization

Work with IT functions and Solutions owners to understand needs and future directions influencing company technology ecosystem

Stay up-to-date on the latest technologies and trends

Communicates with both technical and non-technical audiences

Lead implementations of AI initiatives and identify opportunities to leverage AI technologies to improve business processes, enhance customer experiences, and innovation

Collaborate with data scientists, engineers, and business stakeholders to develop and deploy AI solutions effectively

Experienced with the latest industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices across all IT disciplines. Evaluate new technologies and assess their potential impact on the organization. Make informed recommendations on adopting new technologies to drive innovation and maintain a competitive edge

Proven experience as an Enterprise Architect, with a focus on cloud, data centers, and AI across all IT disciplines

Strong knowledge of cloud computing technologies, data center infrastructure, AI frameworks, databases structures and modeling, development tools, hardware and software, networks, and security

Strategic and organizational capabilities

Demonstrated ability to influencing business strategy and roadmaps

Excellent written and verbal communications skills

Thorough understanding of Business processes for a multinational corporation, preferably privately owned

Management skill (e.g. prioritization, trade-off analysis, etc.)

Able to understand the core functional processes to speak in business terms and drive stakeholders to the outcomes they are seeking. In addition, able to translate these ideal outcomes into what the technology, people, and process need to be

Understanding of Enterprise Architecture and enterprise architecture concepts, frameworks and standards

Thorough understanding of Microsoft, AwS and GCP cloud products and services as applied to our companies

Ability to apply all of the above on a global basis

Excellent interpersonal and customer relationship skills

Demonstrates exceptional customer service

Demonstrated leadership skills

Demonstrated problem solving skills

Preferred

advanced degree or certifications preferred

Experience with Enterprise Architecture tools (e.g. BiZZdesign)

Knowledge of Business process notation BPMN and architecture language Archimate

Large-scale package software experience – with experience in SAP

Understanding of automation technologies. E.g. RPA, AI

Company

Florida Crystals

Florida Crystals is a fully integrated cane sugar company that is organic and natural.

Founded in 1960

West Palm Beach, Florida, USA

1001-5000 employees

https://www.floridacrystals.com/

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