Principal Enterprise Architect

THE ROLE:

 

The Principal Enterprise Architect ensures Herbalife technology landscape is in alignment with the overall strategy. Herbalife is looking for an enterprise architect, technologist, and security enthusiast with experience in cloud, infrastructure, application, and security architecture in a sophisticated multi cloud and on-premise landscape.

The Technologist Enterprise Architect will interface and collaborate across all business areas, acting as high-reaching to proactively assist in defining the direction for new projects and future initiatives. They conceive strategies, build solution designs, build consensus, and ensures implementation is following best practices. They are involved from the initial kickoff through the requirement's analysis, design and implementation. They are also involved in analyzing architectural pain points and provide recommendations for remediation.

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.

As this role progresses, this role will take on more management responsibility and serve as an advisor to Herbalife on architecture for technology solutions, providing technical leadership across the organization, from top-line decision making down to the project planning level. 

HOW YOU WOULD CONTRIBUTE: 

 

 

Core Responsibilities

 

• Infrastructure, Cloud, and Security Design:

o Lead the enterprise architecture design for Data center migration to clouds

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 Support the network engineering team in defining the network architecture

 

• Security Architecture:

o Assisting in the development of an enterprise security architecture framework that aligns with business needs.

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

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

 

• 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 stakeholders 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 across platforms.
• Thought Leadership:

o Gather and share architecture standard methodologies between teams and other technical leaders.

o 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 infrastructure. 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 Hands-on IT core Infrastructure experience with:

o Cloud Computing 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 Infrastructure provisioning and lifecycle management.

O Experience with legacy on-prem infrastructure

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

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

o Containers and container management.

o Continuous integration/deployment/Development.

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

o Implementing IT Operations and Cloud Governance (Auditing, Log management, Policies, tagging, compliance).

o Expertise in network design,

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

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

o Integrating cloud services into network designs.

o DNS infrastructure design and management.

o Experience creating architecture standards and working with enterprise architecture frameworks

o Design experience with platform implementations across Business, Application, Data, and Platform architecture.

 

• Hands-on IT security experience

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 Excellent communication and project management skills.

O Presentation skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with executives, engineering management and developers.

O Ability to work independently and manage own workload

O Solid ability to lead through influence.

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

 

Certificates / Training:

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

 

Experience:

• 4 + years’ experience as an enterprise Architect within an enterprise architecture team
• 10+ years architecture and design experience with platform implementations across Business, Application, Data, and Platform architecture
• 10+ years in IT and cybersecurity including infrastructure and cloud architecture related role

 

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.