What are the Key Deliverables in this role?

1. Financial Outcomes :

- Develop and maintain the enterprise architecture roadmap to support business strategy and digital transformation goals.

2. Customer Service :

- Foster an architecture-driven culture across IT and business teams.

- Serve as a trusted advisor to senior business leaders on digital technology trends and opportunities.

- Collaborate with business units (Sales, Marketing, Supply Chain, Manufacturing) to understand the enterprise requirements.

- Work closely with project managers, product owners, solution architects, and vendors to drive project delivery.

3. Internal Process :

- Define, implement, and enforce architectural principles, standards, and guidelines.

- Lead architecture review boards and ensure compliance with internal policies and regulatory requirements.

- Establish frameworks for data security, privacy, scalability, and interoperability.

- Evaluate and recommend best-fit technologies (cloud platforms, analytics, automation tools) suited for FMCG business needs.

- Ensure seamless integration of new solutions with legacy systems.

- Oversee design of end-to-end digital solutions.

4. Innovation and Learning :

- Driving Innovation Through Stability : By ensuring seamless and stable performance of our core platforms & applications.

- Drive innovation pilots and proofs-of-concept to demonstrate business value.

Critical success factors :

- B.E/B.Tech in Computer Science or IT or MBA.

- 12 - 15 years of experience in product engineering/application development/enterprise architecture, preferably within FMCG or manufacturing sectors.

- Strong understanding of Value chain including Sales & Supply chain.

- Proven track record in architecting large-scale digital transformation programs.

- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP), integration frameworks (APIs/Middleware), data analytics, cybersecurity.

Desirable success factors :

- Is a disruptor at heart, who looks at the status quo and says, "We can do better."

- Boasts a bias for action that's so pronounced, it's almost palpable, with a sense of urgency that's as infectious as it is inspiring.