Principal Enterprise Architect

THE ROLE: Sr. Principal, Enterprise Architect

 

Herbalife is looking for a top-tier enterprise architect and  technologist with a broad experience in  cloud, infrastructure, application design, data, and security architecture in a sophisticated multi cloud and on-premise landscape.

The Principal Enterprise Architect ensures Herbalife technology landscape is in alignment with the overall strategy. They will interface and collaborate across all business areas, acting as an architect and technology leader to proactively assist in defining the architecture direction for projects and technology roadmap for  initiatives. They conceive strategies, build solution designs, build consensus, and ensures implementation is following best practices.

 

The Enterprise Architect will analyze architectural pain points and provide recommendations for remediation. This role involves evaluating the current architecture to identify areas of improvement, developing plans to address these issues, and ensuring the alignment of IT infrastructure with business goals. The Enterprise Architect will also collaborate with various collaborators to design and implement solutions that enhance system performance, scalability, and security. 
Additional responsibilities include the establishment of the overall architectural viewpoints and the establishment and oversight of organization standards and policies. They identify major system architecture components, integrations, data flows, business capabilities, and gaps and existing architecture weaknesses and opportunities for systems and environments.

The Technologist Architect is also responsible for educating and encouraging others on architectural standards, principles, methodology and trends. Enterprise Architects are encouraged to mentor and coach less experienced staff and provide knowledge transfer across the organization. The Sr Principal Architect prove mentorship, road maps, principles, standards and best practices.

HOW YOU WOULD CONTRIBUTE: 

 

 

Core Responsibilities

• General Architecture:

o Responsible for providing oversight and governance for technology roadmaps, architecture standard methodologies, and reference architecture.

o Assisting in the development of enterprise architecture standards that aligns with business needs.

o Analyzing the current technology environment to identify deficiencies and recommending solutions.

o Provide solution architecture blueprints for assigned projects

o Staying informed about emerging security technologies and trends and applying them where appropriate.

 

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• Application Migration

o Lead the enterprise architecture effort  for Herbalife Data center migration to cloud. including Assessment and planning, strategy development, design and architecture and supporting the project team for implementation and optimization.

o Collaborating with multi-functional teams to craft and optimize enterprise solutions.

o Design systems for scalability, high availability, and disaster recovery

o Evaluating services, workloads, and system performance for both cloud and on-prem solutions

o Recommend

 

• Technical Debt, Capacity Planning and Performance Tuning :

o Provide technical guidance for tuning components for optimal performance and reliability.

O Conduct analysis on recurring problems and provide architectural recommendations for remediation

o Conducting capacity analysis to ensure infrastructure resources meet business demands.

 

 

• Documentation and Compliance:

o Creating solution documentation and designs for infrastructure and cloud

o Present and recommend technology solutions at the Technology Governance Board

o Ensuring compliance with industry standards (e.g., ISO 27001, NIST) and internal policies.

 

General Responsibilities

• Collaborate with other architects to drive a consistent approach to infrastructure, security, and cloud adoption across Herbalife.
• Evaluate, select, and recommend vendors, services, and products. Present options and work with all impacted team members to ensure alignment.
• Translating requirements and user stories into architectural artifacts.
• Analyzing system dependencies and estimating level of effort.
• Leading iterative technical design workshops to finalize the architectural plan and solution designs
• Drive creation and validation of non-functional requirements concerning items such as consistency, performance, security, resiliency etc.
• Maintains repository of reference architecture blueprints.
• Support design, development, and implementation of technical projects that span across multiple platforms.

• Ensure integration and data security standards consistency across platformCaptureer and share architecture standard methodologies between teams and other technical leaders.
• Explore and develop new technical skills to be an effective ambassador for Herbalife.

• Conducts periodic implementation review to examine whether solutions align with reference / blueprint architecture and suggest remediation/correction actions.
• Advocate the communication of and alignment to defined architecture strategy and standards.
• Stays up to date with the latest technology trends and industry standard methodologies.
• Supports Risk Management team on dependency and service continuity efforts.
• Researches and recommends opportunities to accept new technologies. Analyzes the impact of implementing new technologies into the IT environment. Proactively researches IT architecture standard processes and methodologies and resolves relevancy to the business organization. Participates in the life cycle planning of existing IT assets.
• Assists Technical Architects, and Project Managers in matching technology services to specific business service and application development projects to ensure consistent use throughout the enterprise. Identifies and brings to bear opportunities across IT departments to ensure a consistent and efficient infrastructure framework.
• Develops and participates in the governance of Architecture principles and framework to assure compliance to the strategy and those exceptions are well justified and detailed through a formal waiver process. Analyzes the impact of exceptions and its effect on future IT and enterprise goals.

 

SKILLS AND BACKGROUND REQUIRED TO BE SUCCESSFUL: 

 

 

 o General Architecture expertise including Architecture frameworks, architecture tools, and architecture standard methodologies

o Experience drawing architecture diagrams with appropriate tools

o Demonstrable experience in creating architecture standards, reference architecture, and architecture decision records,

 o Ability to use necessary tools to present designs using tools including Office tools (PowerPoint, word, diagramming tools)

o Experience working in a multi Cloud environment working with cloud platforms like Azure and GCP.

o Experience in Data center migration to cloud.

o Experience in identifying, managing, and reducing technical debt.

o Hardware and software provisioning and lifecycle management.

O Software Application design and application development

o Knowledge of infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform.

o Virtualization technologies (e.g., VMware, Hyper-V) is essential for optimizing resource utilization.

o Microservices designs, containers and container management.

o Continuous integration/deployment/Development.

o Database architectures, ETL, BI, Sophisticated Analytics, HA (Azure SQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL, NoSQL).

o Integration architecture (real-time, streaming, APIs, batch)

o Cloud Governance (Auditing, Log management, Policies, tagging, compliance).

o Architecture design for PaaS and SaaS, multi-cloud, and on-premise

o The design of scalable, resilient application architectures, plan for capacity, and consider disaster recovery and business continuity. Anticipating future growth and technological advancements ensures adaptability.

o Knowledge in securing networks against threats, including knowledge of firewalls, VPNs, and load balancers.

o Cloud Native designs and technologies

o PaaS, SaaS solutions

o Experience creating architecture standards and working with enterprise architecture frameworks

 

o Expertise in cloud IT security and understanding risk management principles.

o In-depth knowledge of data security frameworks and standards.

o Ability to develop security architectures and designs for systems.

 

 

 

 

Soft Skills:

o Superb communication and management skills with the ability to create presentations and architecture recommendations.

O Excellent presentation skills with a high degree of comfort speaking and making pitches with executives, engineering management and developers.

O Ability to work independently, handle own workload including setting goals and plans to achieve and hold themselves accountable.

O Proven ability to lead through influence.

o Ability to work in both Agile and waterfall project management methodologies.

 

 

 

 

 

Certificates / Training:

• Relevant certifications in, Cloud, IT Service Management (ITIL), and security
• Public cloud certification (Azure, GCP, or AWS)
• Training in Architecture frameworks

 

Experience:

• 4 + years’ experience as an enterprise Architect within a formal enterprise architecture team with review board, standards, and reference architectures.
• 10+ years architecture and design experience with a focus on platform implementations spanning Business, Application, Data, Security, and Platform architecture
• 10+ years working in an IT corporate environment
• Consulting experience is a plus

 

Education:

• Bachelors, Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field

 

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Herbalife offers a variety of benefits to eligible employees in the U.S. (limited to the 50 States and the District of Columbia), which includes Group Health Programs, other Voluntary Benefit Programs, and Paid Time Off. Group Health Programs include Medical, Dental, Vision, Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA), Basic Life/AD&D; Short-Term and Long-Term Disability, and an Employee Assistance Program (EAP). Other Voluntary Benefit Programs include a 401(k) plan, Wellness Incentive Program, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), Supplemental Life/Critical Illness/Hospitalization/Accident Insurance, and Pet Insurance. Paid time off includes Company-observed U.S. Holidays, Floating Holidays, Vacation, Sick Time, a Volunteer Program, Paid Maternity and Paternity Leave, Bereavement Leave, Personal Leave and time off for voting.