HAVI is a privately held global company that innovates, optimizes and drives the supply chains and marketing promotions of many of the best known brands in the world. When you work at HAVI, you have a chance to make your mark – to be a part of work that drives value, brings a smile and keeps everyday life moving forward. Which means it’s not the size of our global footprint, but rather your personal fingerprint, that has the power to make a real difference for our customers… and to touch the lives of people both at home and around the world.

Responsibilities

Be a trusted expert in the decision making and keeping people to the long-term strategy for architecture and integration technology. 

• Build the long-term strategic roadmap for all IT systems architecture
• Circulate technical roadmaps to align IT priorities with business partner needs
• Demonstrate digital opportunities and partner with internal innovation teams
• Develop and maintain policies, standards, and guidelines to ensure that a consistent framework is applied across the company
• Develop application and infrastructure rationalization framework to reduce technical debt
• Remain intimate and knowledgeable on cloud technologies and cloud and hybrid cloud frameworks
• Lead the design and modeling of tactical architectures for the delivery, development, and support of projects
• Manage and facilitate a EA review board/council to evaluate project proposals for architectural fit
• Monitor new technological advances in application development and information technologies
• Participate in digital strategy decisions and provide digital business model consulting within IT Teams
• Partner with business and technology subject matter experts to elicit and translate business requirements into technological solutions
• Partner with Information Security to ensure architecture aligns with security strategy and policies
• Partner with other Solution Architects to provide a consensus-based scalable and adaptable architectural solution
• Remain active in external networks to proactively integrate new technologies as business needs change
• Actively participate in the development of the functional area/digital global strategy
• Perform additional responsibilities as requested to achieve business objectives

Desired Skills & Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience
• At least 10 years’ experience in IT, of which at least 5 would be enterprise architecture & integration focused
• Certification or proven track of information modelling (Relational data, XML/JSON, EDI)
• Successful intercultural work history
• Proven record of innovation and modernization
• Practical experience with agility (SCRUM)
• Practical experience with EA methods (TOGAF, ARCHIMATE) and tools
• Logistics (procurement, trade, transport warehouse, Financial, …) and supply chain management experience and especial patterns used for data integration in these environments
• Professional experience and track of delivered projects for major integration patterns (Enterprise Service Bus, Managed File Transfer, API, ETL)
• Professional experience in data and message modelling (Relational, XML, JSON, UN/EDIFACT, API, …)
• Professional experience in data transport and integration methods (FTP, X400, HTTP, AS2, MQ-Series, JMS, Webservices, …)
• Knowledge of some major systems used at HAVI are a benefit (SAP PI, Sonic ESB, Informatica, SAP BO DI, Axway B2Bi, HULFT, Liaison, …)
• Professional level experience of at least one major software development environment
• Professional level understanding of relevant international standards as GS1, UN/EDIFACT, GDSN, Unicode
• Basic level understanding of IT security topics
• Basic level understanding of network and impacts for data integration