Senior Director, Enterprise Architecture - GenAI / ML - Sysco

The Senior Director, Enterprise Architecture will work closely with the Chief Technology Officer and set vision, strategy, and provide overall leadership to the Architecture capability across Sysco.  This includes creating, developing and further enhancing the technology landscape by infusing new leading-edge technologies i.e., ML / AI / GenAI / Microservices / Cloud Computing with existing technologies and processes to drive business improvements while also future proofing solutions. The architecture team will continue a high rate of growth over the next 2-3 years and the Senior Director of Architecture  will drive the strategy and organizational process across teams globally.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• To shape ML / AI / GenAI transformation to drive business impact that differentiate our capabilities and performance in the marketplace.
• Direct and inspire engineering leadership to design high-volume, high availability microservices in AWS, Azure, and GCP to meet the business requirements and drive tribe-level development methodology on a global scale.
• Provide thought leadership in the development and execution of enterprise and architecture domain-specific strategies, standards, and guidelines to define the Enterprise Architecture Target State  and Roadmaps.
• Chair Enterprise Architecture Review Board ensuring that enterprise applications and solutions are designed, developed, and maintained in alignment with the organization's strategic goals, standards, best practices, and architectural guidelines.
• Provide architecture support to craft enterprise architecture (server, storage, networks etc.) for select solutions or applications (e.g., Snowflake, Data Lake, Salesforce) for reliability, scalability, and performance.
• Identify, publish, and communicate strategic technology frameworks, principles, and roadmaps to be used throughout the IT organization to guide technology decisions and leverage efficiency opportunities.
• Partner with information security teams to incorporate and enforce technical security best practices into the designs of solutions across the company.
• Recruit, retain and develop exceptional architecture and engineering talent while cultivating a positive company culture that values cross team collaboration and trust.

Technical Skills and Abilities:

• Experience with AI, Machines Learning, Automation, Technology Modernization, Generative AI (must have some working knowledge), and a heavy Cloud background.
• Sophisticated understanding/exposure to overall API-Management concepts. Hands-on experience in building APIs, proxies, security practices, and policies development.
• Professional technical experience delivery software as part of a development team utilizing tools like React, Node.JS and/or Java in a cloud environment.
• Understanding and practical application of development methodologies, test automation, and continuous integration strategies.
• Designed and built software solutions using these technologies, Node.js, and ReactJS.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, related technical field or equivalent self-study.
• 10 years’ in management role leading a team of software engineers.
• 12 years of professional technical experience delivery software as part of a development team utilizing tools like React, Node.JS and/or Java in a cloud environment
• Understanding and practical application of development methodologies, test automation, and continuous integration strategies.
• Experience in an agile environment.
• Available for occasional international travel.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in a start-up environment.
• Experience mentoring and developing technical and functional skills of team members.
• Experience working with global teams.