Solution Architect

Key responsibilities:

1. Partner with senior business and D&T customers to craft the future Corporate Function strategy and solutions and ensure consistent deployment and adoption across Diageo globally.
2. Deliver the technology ecosystem that underpins the core capabilities that includes HR transformation, People Transformation, Legal and GBO enablement's and scalable various services including Payroll consolidation, HR Process standardization.
3. Lead the platform functional and non-functional technology requirements and roadmap, in alignment with the Corporate Function digital transformation, coordinated planning and governance, and including innovation and continuous improvement.
4. Collaborate with Multi-functional architecture teams, Information Management & Security teams in making future technology strategic choices and integrating existing various Corporate function activities and Back-Office i.e. Infrastructure, ERP, and Integration layer, platforms services.

Qualifications and Experience Required:

1. Demonstrable global solutions build and implementation experience in Corporate Function (People, HR, Finance, Legal etc.) with a proven track record across product lifecycle (MVP, early service, scale up)
2. Solid grasp coordinated business strategies, processes and data flows, challenges and opportunities in practice, and ability to prioritize and translate these into robust technology solutions and roadmaps.
3. Excellent command of the technology stack, with particular focus on Technologies like Workday, SAP, Mulesoft, Data management and governance, Azure, AWS, Data Factory, Analytics, MS Power Apps, Power BI etc.
4. Excellent Architectural and Design capabilities with various design patterns towards Integration, Microservice based Architecture, Event Driven Architecture, Cloud Architecture (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS).
5. Experience with different Corporate Function entities like People, HR, Payroll, Legal, etc.
6. Good engagement and influencing skills, building plans collaboratively and engendering strong ownership across the team and customers
7. Ability to build and empower a multi-functional, matrix team, including strategic vendor partners
8. Ability to support a vision for a coordinated data strategy to develop enduring 1:1 relationship with Corporate Function and improve long term value