THE ROLE:
The Principal III, Enterprise Cloud Architect ensures Herbalife architecture and technology landscape is in alignment with overall strategy.
This role will work with application teams to assess cloud-capable and cloud optimized workloads and assist these teams with the use of available cloud services, best design and management practices and the use of cloud management tools. The Enterprise Cloud Architect will be an expert in Azure, Google and emerging external cloud offerings as well as legacy infrastructure.
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:
- Develops reference architecture to set technical standards for applications and infrastructure.
- Creates business architecture models to support business needs
- Drive creation and validation of non-functional requirements concerning items such as consistency, performance, security, resiliency etc.
- Maintains repository of reference architecture blueprints
- Conducts periodic implementation review to examine whether solutions align with reference / blueprint architecture and suggest remediation/correction actions
- Provide integration architecture support to design Enterprise Architecture (server, storage, networks etc.) for select solutions or applications (e.g., Salesforce) for reliability, scalability, and performance.
- Provide integration architecture support to design Enterprise Architecture (server, storage, networks etc.) for select solutions or applications (e.g., Snowflake, Data Lake, Salesforce) for reliability, scalability, and performance.
- Maintain architecture standards required to operationalize business needs for a new service. Integration Architect identifies publishes and communicates strategic technology standards, frameworks, principles, and roadmaps to be used throughout the IT organization to guide technology decisions and leverage efficiency opportunities. Drives design for a secure, efficient, and adaptable future state model. Ensures that new projects and migrations are in alignment with the IT capital budget, project portfolio, and IT/enterprise strategic goals.
- Advocate the communication of and alignment to defined architecture strategy and standards
- Proactively supervise technology and market trends, and resolve their potential impact and value to the enterprise
- Support design, development, and implementation of technical projects that span across multiple platforms
- Ensure integration and data security standards across platforms
- Supports Risk Management team on dependency and service continuity efforts
- Stays up to date with the latest trends and industry standard methodologies
- Lead research and recommendation of new integration architecture practices and solution
- Ensures integration performance across platforms and infrastructure
- Partner with Infrastructure and Application Services, technical and operational teams to make recommendations on preferred solutions
- Researches and recommends opportunities to embrace 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.
- Educates and guides engineers in the vision and use cases of specific solutions within the Architecture portfolio.
- 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.
- Use business requirements to identify, evaluate and present alternative design solutions which meet customer needs
