Job Description :
Job Title: Enterprise Architect - Cloud & Compute
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 ideas, 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 talented 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.
About the team: (TE)
About the role:
The "Enterprise Architect – Cloud & Compute " role will report into the Enterprise Architecture Security & Network Domain Lead and will be focused on developing the target architecture, standards and roadmaps to achieve Diageo’s business goals through a multi-cloud strategy. This role will partner closely with the Cloud, Security and Functional Architects along with key stakeholders from Enterprise Services team. A trusted advisor to senior leadership in the Digital & Technology function, the successful candidate will need to demonstrate strong influencing and communication skills to ensure that the strategic EA perspective gains the support required to allow it to become a reality.
Role Responsibilities:
Strategic thinking to take business strategies into architecture
Collaborating with business stakeholders to develop Diageo’s strategic vision for IT/OT and future-state business/technology architecture, developing 3-5 year roadmaps to achieve our business ambitions through technology with key focus on Cloud and Compute Architecture
Providing thought leadership to architect next generation cloud, providing technical direction to D&T leadership around emerging trends and integrating cutting edge technical solutions for products and services
Creating the target and interim architectures that support the roadmap, leading the review of the maturity assessment of current-state capabilities and the technology selection process for new capabilities
Collaborating with stakeholders to ensure alignment to the architecture strategy, vision and principles
Governing the changes in Cloud and Compute to ensure they are strategically aligned, provide value for money, and are fit for purpose, whilst managing architectural risk and debt
Champion adoption of architecture roadmap by working closely with the Enterprise Services team
Influence portfolio investments for key technology solutions in line with our roadmaps
Building and maintaining relationships with technology vendors and suppliers
Maintaining knowledge of external trends and business priorities to proactively identify transformation opportunities in our data centre and cloud technologies
Experience / skills required:
Demonstrated expertise with architecting, designing and implementing solutions in a global enterprise environment
In-depth knowledge and proven experience in developing capability models, reference architecture and technology roadmap artefacts.
Significant experience in the development of strategy and enterprise architecture to enable modern Cloud and Compute capabilities, including:
Strong track record of designing and implementing Azure and/or AWS services in a variety of distributed computing environments.
Experience with service-oriented architecture for cloud-based services.
Deep knowledge on the tools for the security, deployment, implementation, management, monitoring and reporting of Cloud workloads.
Experience with public cloud automation DevOps tools and techniques
Demonstrated experience delivering automation and other optimization techniques to modernize legacy infrastructure
Experience in evaluating and implementing appropriate storage and container solutions
Experience with infrastructure automation technologies
Successful track record selecting and evaluating new network technology that provide the foundations for innovative and scalable enterprise practices
Expert working knowledge of both Information Technology (IT) and Operations Technology (OT) environments.
Leadership:
Bold and strategic thinker – able to develop stretching and ambitious future vision
Fantastic communicator – able to articulate and sell the vision to senior stakeholders
Demonstrated ability to deliver integrated Business-IT strategy, establishing a high level of trust among both business and technical stakeholders
Building International and cross-functional relationships to drive engagement
Experience working with executive sponsors and senior business leadership teams developing and delivering strategy and operating plans with demonstrated competency
Flexible Working Statement: Flexibility is key to our success. From part-time and compressed hours to different locations, our people work flexibly in ways to suit them. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you so that you’re supported from day one.
Rewards & Benefits Statement: (TE)
Diversity statement: Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this.
We embrace diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you’ll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You’ll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, mindsets, and more.
Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to the next level and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.
Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you.
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Worker Type :
Regular
Primary Location:
Bangalore Karle Town SEZ
Additional Locations :
Budapest
Job Posting Start Date :
2025-06-30
