Commercial Solutions Principal Architect

Ecolab is the global leader in water, hygiene and energy technologies and services. Every day, we help make the world cleaner, safer and healthier – protecting people and vital resources. Ecolab Digital delivers cutting-edge digital solutions that are used by Ecolab customers.

Ecolab Digital Solutions is looking for a Principal Architect to join our commercial architecture team focused on delivering digital solutions and strategies for our customer product offerings. The person selected for this role will work with the business stakeholders and product teams to conceptualize, design, and deliver extensible and scalable digital products and solutions. This includes AI, connected devices (IOT), mobile applications, analytics solutions, and other digital tools. The role requires strong architectural skills across domains, as well as good communication, collaboration and influencing skills. 

A person in this role will serve as an advisor and resident expert in solution architecture with an emphasis on establishing composable / modular services that can be leveraged by digital products across the portfolio. This role will provide architectural guidance and ensure business-technology alignment and integration across Ecolab in alignment with Enterprise Architecture & Security Standards.

What you will be doing:

• Establish and maintain a trusted advisor relationship with business, product, & engineering teams & leaders in Ecolab Digital
• Provide technical and architectural leadership for Ecolab Digital connected IoT, cloud innovation, and mobile solutions
• Develop and maintain strategic architecture plans & capability roadmaps with phasing and estimation across the Global Institutional portfolio
• Provide objective and unbiased analysis, balancing short and long-term objectives, customer needs, business constraints, and technological realities
• Participate in strategic and operational planning processes including product PI planning
• Provide data and information management guidance to enable scalable analytics and insights driving customer, associate and Ecolab performance
• Manage global view of systems landscape & architecture for Ecolab Digital regions
• Ensuring alignment of Ecolab Digital with Enterprise Architecture and Security Standards
• Actively participate in technical/business requirements, technology choices and partnerships
• Stay apprised of changes in relevant trends and technologies

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, MIS, related field, or equivalent experience
• 10 years of experience working in IT
• 3 years of experience partnering with business leaders to develop technical strategies, architecture and road maps to support their objectives
• 5 years working with Microsoft .NET and Visual Studio and related Microsoft Development Tools and technologies
• 5 years of combined experience in at least three of the following disciplines – solution architecture, infrastructure architecture, application architecture, data architecture, business architecture
• No immigration sponsorship is available for this role at this time.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, MIS, related field, or equivalent experience
• Experience with Salesforce.com Platform 
• Experience working with solutions delivery teams using Agile/Scrum ore similar methodologies
• 2 years of experience designing solutions leveraging Microsoft Azure Platform-as-a-Service components
• Exceptional written, verbal & presentation skills
• Exceptional interpersonal skills including collaboration, facilitation and influencing

Benefits 

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Potential Customer Requirements Notice

To meet customer requirements and comply with local or state regulations, applicants for certain customer-facing roles may need to:

- Undergo additional background screens and/or drug/alcohol testing for customer credentialing.

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