US Foods · 12 hours ago
Enterprise Architect (remote)
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$115K/yr - $185K/yr
10+ years expUS Foods is a leader in the foodservice industry, focused on innovation and technology. The Enterprise Architect role is integral to shaping the company's technology strategy, ensuring alignment between technology investments and business objectives while providing architectural expertise across various domains.
E-CommerceFood and BeverageFood ProcessingSnack Food
Responsibilities
Provides advanced expertise in multiple technologies, including emerging technologies
Develops or leads highly sophisticated architectures that require the integration of multiple technologies, addressing the interrelationships of multiple systems and serving diverse business partners
Works with IT and business leadership in the development of key organizational strategies and trends, and provides context for the development of the strategy
Provides vision and pragmatic expertise to the planning process, ensuring technology investments and strategies align with business requirements
Directs changes to the I/T organization and processes that strike the optimal balance between performance, business partner satisfaction, and spend management
Identifies and prioritizes opportunities that drive spend initiatives, optimization efforts, and the total spend of ownership strategies
Ensures the use of industry and enterprise technology standards across the organization
Identifies and leads the resolution of highly complex technical problems
Leads architecture design that is scalable to the enterprise, sector, and franchise level
Develops publications and educates value-stream architects, business stakeholders on architecture plans, current and emerging technologies, and strategies
Ensures the adherence to architectural standards
Develops and maintains enterprise architecture in alignment with the overall IT vision, supporting the information needs of the business and/or may manage and perform research and discovery activities, vet ideas, explore and validate emerging technologies, trends and possibilities relevant to strategic and technical direction, while supporting business innovation and playing the role of a change agent
Partners with business and technology subject-matter experts to elicit and translate business requirements into technological solutions. Partners with Solution Architects to provide a consensus based scalable and adaptable architectural solution
Develops and maintains policies, standards, and guidelines to ensure that a consistent framework is applied across the company. Manages and/or facilitates Review Boards to evaluate project and technology proposals for healthcare architectural or technology fit
Facilitate the sharing of architecture best practices throughout the architecture community and the IT organization by assisting in the creation of an architecture community of practice OR provide regular visibility and communicate the R&D findings and perspectives to executive leadership to help scope business and technology long term vision
Synchronizes system/data security, quality, production infrastructure, solution user experience governance, and Non-Functional Requirements across solutions
Provide guidance to Value-stream specific architects on key decisions (e.g., upgrade decisions, architectural decisions) and make decisions that must be made above the level of Solution/System/domain/ Architect
Work closely with value-streams to drive architecture governance within application roadmaps, and ensure the technology standard is implemented across the organization
Mentors and guides less experienced architects through onboarding, training, or development
Communicates "big picture" to Business and IT stakeholders at all levels of the organization to achieve alignment with target state architecture and roadmap by domain or by value-stream
Qualification
Required
BS/BA in computer science or related, Masters degree desirable, certifications in web-based technologies, Cloud and project management a plus
10+ years of IT architecture, or data experience, or software development and project management experience using waterfall and agile methods
At least 3 years of leadership experience in Architecture Strategy, Roadmap, and technologies
Experience in domain-specific architecture concepts and emerging technologies (Design patterns, frameworks, value-based healthcare solutions, cloud technologies, public cloud technologies)
Experience creating and promoting guiding development principles and influencing development teams, business users, management, and leadership in adoption of technical and service-based solutions
Experience leading enterprise architecture frameworks such as TOGAF (The Open Group Architecture Framework)
Experience establishing & maintaining relationships with individuals at all levels of the organization, in the business community & with vendors. Experience coordinating and facilitating executive management meetings
Significant experience (2-3 years or more at a minimum) in the Agile development process
Significant experience leading teams of experienced IT professional, preferably architects
Experience with product team models and its collaboration with enterprise architecture
Broad experience building complex solutions both from an application and infrastructure perspectives
Proven track record on leading software development teams in a matrixed environment
Experience with event management and streaming integration platforms
Experience with enterprise middleware like MuleSoft and Boomi
10+ years of architecture or software development and project management experience using waterfall and agile methods
10+ years of experience with application rationalization, capabilities mapping and technology roadmaps
Distributed applications and mobile applications expertise
Experience with database technologies including Oracle, JDBC, SQL, NoSQL, Data grid etc
Experience with DevOps, continuous integration and continuous delivery
Experience architecting Cloud or SaaS applications
Enterprise Architecture management tools like SAP LeanIX
Microsoft Collaboration tools like Teams, Loop, Copilot
Agile tools such as JIRA, Monday.com and Confluence
Complex event processing platforms
Experience with ERP deployment
Data lake, business analytics
Azure and Amazon Web Service
Benefits
Health insurance
Pre-tax spending accounts
Retirement benefits
Paid time off
Short-term and long-term disability
Employee stock purchase plan
Life insurance
Company
US Foods
US Foods is a foodservice distributor that provides its customers with innovative food offerings and a suite of business solutions.
10001+ employees
H1B Sponsorship
US Foods has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (3)
2024 (5)
2023 (5)
2022 (6)
2021 (6)
2020 (12)
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$2BKey Investors
National Safety CouncilKohlberg Kravis RobertsCommonwealth's Opportunity Fund
2025-06-25Grant· $0.02M
2024-09-27Post Ipo Debt· $500M
2023-09-11Post Ipo Debt· $1B
Leadership Team
Dirk Locascio
Chief Financial Officer
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Greg Schaffner
Regional president
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