Solution Architect

**Position Snapshot**: **Nestlé IT, Barcelona, Spain** **Undefined period of time contract,** **act. rate 100%** **Grade: G** **About IT in Nestlé**: We are a team of IT professionals from many countries and diverse backgrounds, each with unique missions and challenges in the biggest health, nutrition and wellness company of the world. We innovate every day through forward-looking technologies to create opportunities for Nestlé’s digital challenges with our consumers, customers and at the workplace. We collaborate with our business partners around the world to deliver standardized, integrated technology products and services to create tangible business value. To strengthen our IT HUB in Barcelona, we are looking for a Solution Architect to complete our Analytics, Data and Integration (ADI) Department. This position will be part of the Global Business Solution Integration Team, which supports Nestlé markets worldwide through a group of Hubs in different locations that provide support in a shifting time window (FTS model). **Position Summary**: In this position, you will be accountable for supporting proactively and holistically Enterprise Architecture (EA) activities within the Product Groups and Platforms that fit within the overall EA and meet the product group strategy. As a Solutions Architect, you will provide the necessary leadership, analysis and design tasks related to the development of a product or a set of products within a product group. You will work closely with DevOps / development teams and suppliers to secure that the value planned will be delivered in the most optimal way and you will be accountable for supervising the design as well as the integration execution within the scope, owning the solution architecture specification. **Key responsibilities**: - Manage and develop the architecture for a set of products / platforms utilizing an API first approach and ensuring maximum reusability - Deliver the architectural design for products and inputs to the roadmap by utilizing knowledge of defined reference architectures, technology trends, and implementation experience in order to translate a business need into a solution blueprint that represents an end-to-end technical solution - Lead the implementation and integration of technical architecture across a product group based on enterprise business strategy, business capabilities and business requirements - Identify the organizational impact (for example, on skills, processes, structures or culture) and financial impact of the solution architecture - Define and document the guidelines, standards and solution architecture to ensure product-based decisions are aligned with the enterprise's future-state architecture vision - Design and direct the governance activities associated with ensuring product architecture assurance and compliance - Engage with Tech Leads, BAs, Product Managers and EA within (and across) the product groups to ensure alignment with the overall enterprise architecture **Required Profile**: - Bachelor's degree in business or computer science, systems analysis or a related study, or equivalent experience - 2+ years of experience working as a solution architect or delivering architecture responsibilities on business/IT projects - Understanding of agile methods and processes, and capability of supporting agile project teams by providing advice and guidance on opportunities, impact and risks, taking account of technical and architectural debt - Ability to understand and communicate the long-term ("big picture") and short-term perspectives of situations - Ability to quickly comprehend the functions and capabilities of new technologies - Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies and processing environments - Ability to translate future-state business capabilities and requirements into solution architecture requirements - Ability to propose and estimate the financial impact of solution architecture alternatives - Experiences working in a global environment, with virtual teams and outsourced entities - Curious about new technology, willingness to experiment - Effectively communicates in English at different levels in the organization **Join us**: