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At US Foods®, innovation and technology is our superpower. By expanding our digital ecosystem and leading with a customer-first mindset, we’re delivering technology that empowers our customers and simplifies business. As we transform the digital landscape of the foodservice industry, we’re outpacing our competitors faster than ever before.
We believe diversity is the cornerstone of creativity and innovation—and we foster an open, inclusive, flexible work environment that supports our transformation.
This role is part of the Office of the CIDO (Chief Information Digital Officer)—reporting up to the VP, IT Strategy and Architecture. This role is the chief enterprise architect for US Foods IT—a future focused thought leader, who consistently keeps a pulse on emerging market disruptions and identifies gaps in IT’s landscape. This role advises IT leadership on evolving IT strategy, the enterprise architecture roadmap, and technology investment decisions.
This role owns the definition and continuous improvement of enterprise architecture strategy, guiding principles, and portfolio of services across architecture domains. As a part of this, the role designs the target technology vision—building a holistic view and roadmap of the Company’s enterprise technology strategy, processes, and information technology roadmap. Ultimately, this role helps IT leadership understand, monetize, and operationalize existing, new, and emerging technologies. Oversees and improves the architecture governance model (i.e., standards, policies, and procedures), and leads integration with related business and IT processes.
This role facilitates alignment between business and IT stakeholders through strategically partnering with both business and technology stakeholders (internal and external) and ensuring that the technology, services, and business solutions align with US Foods’ overall objectives.
Additionally, this role is responsible for leading and managing the Enterprise Architecture (EA) Function— managing a team of domain enterprise architects in a direct capacity.
Flexible Work Policy: The work for the Principal Enterprise Architect position is completely 100% remote anywhere in the United States except Hawaii or United States Territories. This position may have the potential to travel up to 20% dependent on business needs.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Enterprise Architecture (EA) Function Management:
- Develops and drives the evolution and maturation of EA strategy, services, and operating model
- Manages the EA Function; recruits and develops the critical skills, competencies, and career paths for the EA team members, and coaches and mentors Enterprise Architects
- Drives collaboration across all Enterprise Architects; ensures the EA Function works closely with extended team members across the organization
- Identifies organizational requirements for the resources, structures, and cultural changes necessary to support the EA Function
- Enterprise Architecture Strategy:
- Understands the business’s economic and financial levers and regularly keeps up with major disruptive technology and non-technology trends; identifies gaps in the IT strategy
- Advises business and IT leadership on IT investments and strategies in alignment with business outcomes
- Owns and communicates the strategy and value of enterprise architecture and its portfolio of services to IT and the business
- Develops and manages critical strategic partnerships with business and external partners (e.g., vendors); drive collaboration for vendor management across domains
- For large or cross-value stream products, leads and facilitates interactions with business leaders, product managers, and product owners regarding risks and implications of relevant product decisions to the greater enterprise
- Enterprise Digital Modernization:
- Provides vision, expertise, and guidance to the enterprise-wide planning process on technology investments and how to take advantage of emerging opportunities and risks
- Presents gap analyses of the IT landscape and/or IT investment roadmaps to detect critical enterprise-level architecture deficiencies. Advises IT leaders on how to incorporate gaps and/or risks into value stream roadmap and planning (i.e., architectural runway)
- Defines IT’s target technology vision in alignment with the overall IT vision, supporting the information needs of the business; leads development of an implementation roadmap for the enterprise architecture in alignment with IT’s strategy for product and project-driven delivery
- Communicates "big picture" to Business and IT stakeholders to achieve alignment with target state enterprise architecture and roadmap by domain or value-stream
- Enterprise Governance:
- Drives continuous improvement of the architecture governance model – develops and maintains policies, standards, and guidelines to ensure that a consistent framework is applied across IT
- Leads Enterprise Architects to drive adherence to architectural standards and use of industry and enterprise technology standards across the organization
- Program & Project Delivery:
- For highest priority, enterprise-wide delivery, and architecture issues, drives problem solving
- Aligns EA services to the ITPGA and IT Finance Strategy and product and project lifecycle planning to ensure consistency with the enterprise architecture
- Architecture Practitioner Network (APN):
- Establishes and oversees an architecture practitioner network; oversees sharing of architecture best practices, governance, and collaboration throughout the architecture community and IT
- Defines and governs the Enterprise RACI for Enterprise Architects, Enterprise Data Architect, Enterprise Security Architect, Enterprise Business Architects, Solution Architects, Business Architects, and others involved in the architecture practice across the IT function.
- Identifies critical/emerging Architecture skills, knowledge, and abilities; works with Enterprise Function and HR to oversee skills development of IT architects
- Provides guidance to all architects on critical enterprise-wide or cross-value stream decisions (e.g., upgrade decisions, architectural decisions) and makes decisions that must be made above the level of all other IT architects
- Other duties as assigned by manager
SUPERVISION:
- Supervision of approximately 4 to 5 Enterprise Architects within Enterprise Architecture Function
- Supervision of third-party architecture consultants
- Dotted line supervision of 1-2 Enterprise Architects within Value Streams (for specific domains)
RELATIONSHIPS
- Internal: IT Leadership Team, C-Suite Level leaders across USF, Product Delivery Leads and development teams within IT, IT Architects, Business Stakeholders, USF Strategy team, ITPGA and IT Finance, program stakeholders and functional program office, and key USF functions (e.g., Legal, HR, Compliance, etc.)
- External: Regular interactions with technology partners and contract vendors will be required as a key part of this role. The ability to create statements of work, negotiate rates, and working with technology vendors for technical issues will be a heavy requirement for this role.
WORK ENVIRONMENT (Select one)
- Remote: This role is fully remote and is expected to perform assigned responsibilities from a home-based environment.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
- 10+ years of IT architecture, or business experience in strategic and operations planning and/or business analysis; including at least three disciplines (for example, business, information, solution or technical architecture, application development, information analysis, database management, or operations in a multitier environment)
- 5+ years of experience managing, coaching, and mentoring teams of experienced IT professionals, preferably architects
- Experience architecting Cloud or SaaS applications; knowledge of business ecosystems, SaaS, infrastructure as a service (IaaS), integration as a service (iPaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), service-oriented architecture (SOA), APIs, open data, microservices, event-driven IT and predictive analytics
- Experience creating and promoting architecture principles and influencing development teams, business leadership in adoption of technical and service-based solutions
- Demonstrated depth of knowledge / skills in:
- Enterprise architecture frameworks (such as TOGAF), leading practice governance standards (policies, procedures, standards), and architecture design across domains
- Emerging technologies (e.g., design patterns, frameworks, value-based solutions, cloud technologies, public cloud technologies, customer engagement solutions)
- Business modelling (e.g., BPMN), operating models, financial models, cost-benefit analysis, budgeting, risk management, and business case development
- Familiarity with information management practices, system development life cycle management, IT services management, agile and lean methodologies, infrastructure and operations, and EA and ITIL frameworks; experience with DevOps, continuous integration, and continuous delivery
- Agile principles, methodologies, and frameworks, especially those designed to be scaled at the enterprise level; significant experience (2-3 years or more at a minimum) in the Agile development process
- Leadership skills with exceptional soft and interpersonal skills—including teamwork, strategic partnering, stakeholder management, change leadership, facilitation, and negotiation
- Issue resolution and consulting in an ambiguous environment
- Excellent written, verbal, communication, and presentation skills with the ability to articulate new ideas and concepts to technical and nontechnical audiences
- 20% travel requirement based on business needs
EDUCATION
- BS/BA in computer science OR related required work experience
CERTIFICATIONS/TRAINING: Certifications in web-based technologies, Cloud and project management a plus
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience in leading enterprise-level modernization / transformation initiatives
- Broad experience building complex solutions both from an application and infrastructure perspectives
- Experience with database technologies including Oracle, JDBC, SQL, NoSQL, Data grid etc.
- Understanding of existing, new, and emerging technologies, and processing environments
- Familiarity with basic graphical modeling approaches, tools and model repositories.
- Experience working on complex software development, in an architecture or development role, utilizing one or several of the following: J2EE, XML, HTTP, JMS, SQL, Java, EJB, JSP, HTML, JavaScript, Enterprise ServiceBus technology, SOAP, REST, BPM
- Complex event processing platforms
- Experience with ERP deployment
- Data lake, business analytics
- Amazon Web Service
The following information is provided in accordance with certain state and local laws. Compensation depends on experience, geographic locations, and other factors permitted by law. In Colorado, the expected compensation for this role is between $132,600 and $176,900. In New York, the expected compensation for this role is between $157,800 and $210,400. In California, the expected compensation for this role is between $149,900 and $199,900. In Washington, the expected compensation for this role is between $149,900 and $199,900. This role is also eligible for annual incentive plan bonus. Benefits for this role include health insurance, pre-tax spending accounts, retirement benefits, paid time off, short-term and long-term disability, employee stock purchase plan, and life insurance. To review available benefits, please click here: https://www.usfoods.com/careers/benefits.html.
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