Company
Our client are a successful brand who specialise in the making and distribution of alcohol brands worldwide. This is a business with a pioneering attitude and has philosophy towards innovation and is built upon passion of their products.
The Role
You will be taking responsibility over operations of infrastructure and a member of the leadership team contributing towards fulfilling the company’s vision and corporate plans. Responsibilities include building and leading a team and manage backlog of infrastructure architecture as well as providing architecture expertise to product teams, infrastructure and operations. You will be providing feedback and reporting to the Chief technology officer.
Requirements and key skills
- Previous experience in leading and supervising a team with traits in delegation motivation and direction
- Strong analytical, conceptual, and problem-solving abilities
- Knowledge of technical infrastructure and estate management e
- Excellent architecture and technical support documentation skills
- Strong written and oral communication, processes, logical thinking and organisational skills.
- Experience with developing strategic plans
- Proven experience in systems design and development
- Understanding of the organisation goals and objectives
Accountabilities
- Hold responsibility over operations regarding infrastructure architecture, technology management, solution architecture, process architecture, data architecture and technical architecture
- Be accountable for ensuring all architecture specific activities comply with the business standards, reporting standards, governance, methodologies, policies and align with business strategy and objectives
- Manage the backlog of the ‘Infrastructure Architecture’ team, providing clarity on priority items, ensuring timely progress in a structured manner, ensuring efficient allocation and use of all available resources, and conducting quality assurance
- Hold ownership for the development and management and continuous improvement of the overall enterprise architecture framework and supporting guardrails
- Manage requirements/ architecture rollouts in releases and solve technical dependencies
- Provide required architecture expertise to “Product teams”, jointly identify business requirements, create a development roadmap and implement development projects
- Provide required architecture expertise to “Infrastructure & Operations” to identify business requirements, create a development roadmap and implement development projects
- Build and lead a highly capable team with a practical and thorough approach to all the team activities, continuously develop the capabilities of the team and all team members, and build well thought-out and realistic succession
- Develop strong relationships with key stakeholders to ensure alignment across the business, working pro-actively and constructively with the relevant teams and supporting cross-functional collaboration
- Develop technology architecture design authority so that it provides assurance that solution designs are fit for purpose, working to ensure that each component meets requirements and integrates and works within the complex enterprise architecture
Benefits
- Additional 10% bonus
- Pension
- Life assurance
- Product Allowance