IT Applications & Solutions Architect

To be the leading producer of glass bottles and jars worldwide you need passion, commitment and innovation baked into the very fabric of a business and its people. For more than 120 years, our glass makers have honed their craft—channeling their creativity into more than 1,800 patents held today. When you join O-I you become part of that story. O-I has more than a century of experience crafting pure, sustainable, brand-building glass packaging for many of the world’s best-known food and beverage brands.

Requirements

• Leads, guides, and develops the O-I IT strategic direction for projects assigned
• Coordinate and align with technology domains architects and the business for the development of the solutions architecture aligned on target architecture(s)
• Get buy-in and the needed level of participation from the business areas and from Technology Domain Architects from the very start of the projects removing any preconception of EA being IT focused
• Keep the global strategic vision for projects assigned
• Works with leadership to make recommendations on effective staffing and long-term support models
• Define concrete solutions for a project or application
• Define detailed solution specifications fitting to solution sketches
• Designs effective change readiness approaches for existing and new technologies
• Leads the definition of technical standards and guidelines that pertain to the projects assigned, taking input from across the globe, working in a way that provides the best and secure solution for the entire enterprise
• Works to exploit existing solutions that already exist in the environment with the intent to prevent duplicate solution creation
• Works with other architects to integrate technologies together in an effective, secure, and cost-conscious manner
• Working with the technical team globally, establishes a realistic, cost constrained, and resource constrained roadmap with a three-year outlook for the technical domain assigned
• Monitors the global project portfolio for the project assigned
• Intervenes when necessary to ensure compliance with planned roadmap, budget limitations, resource constraints, and established standards
• Participates in key project design reviews as part of the methodology process to ensure solution designs adhere to enterprise architecture guidelines
• Monitors regulatory guidelines to determine impact on enterprise architecture
• Makes recommendations for compliance
• Monitors emerging technologies and makes recommendations regarding changes in our established standards
• Leads testing for promising technologies for usefulness in our environment
• Monitors the work of global delivery teams to ensure compliance with established standards and procedures
• Works collaboratively with teams to course correct if necessary
• Escalates issues when necessary
• Work with customers to understand requirements and convert those into technical solutions

Benefits

• Remote work model
• Flexible working hours
• Private medical care including dental care
• Life insurance
• Multisport card
• Social fund (e.g. vacation allowance, Christmas allowance)
• Employee referral program

Originally posted on Himalayas