Expert IT Solution Architect - Azure and Generative AI

Nestle Information Technology is the digital arm of the world's largest nutrition, health, and wellness company.
With 150+ years in business, 2,000+ brands, and 270,000+ diverse team members-you're joining an organization that's revolutionizing food and championing global humanitarian efforts with technology at its core.
Joining Nestle IT means you'll never stop learning and sharpening new skills.
Tools, technologies, and innovation for the next generation of food is part of it.
Working with team members from different cultures and corners of the world on truly meaningful initiatives is what makes our work inspiring.
Think beyond technology.
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POSITION SUMMARY:

As an Expert Solution Architect for our cloud platform, you will be responsible for the design, configuration, and maintenance of the technology and platforms used to deliver data and analytics to business teams.
You will join two existing senior Azure platform engineers and support the efforts of a 30 person data engineering team.
You will work with the team to ensure functionality of the Azure platform and provide proof of concepts for new technologies.
You will work closely with DevOps teams, development teams, and suppliers to secure that the value planned will be delivered in the most optimal way according to the platform strategy and the overall value for money objectives linked to the IT strategy
Assess new technologies and develop strategies for bringing new technology online
Provide advice and recommendations on platform improvements, optimization, and upgrades and create documentation of all platform design and analysis work
Ensure delivery of architecture patterns that effectively leverage data foundation assets and incorporate API led designs
Build, Implement and oversee the implementation of new technologies and API functionality across the organization
Assist multiple data engineering teams to build out and implement APIs for a variety of data products
Support platform development and technology architecture selection activities
Provide specifications for hardware and software as it relates to platform architecture
Provide architectural and design consulting for new use case scenarios for tools, technologies, and patterns
Ensure all technology aligns with the overall Nestle guidelines and platform security and compliance
Participate in vendor and new technology evaluation, selection, and integration
Identify the organizational impact (I.e.\ on skills, processes, structures, or culture) and financial impact of the solution architecture
Assist in technical build outs and remediate technology issues ensuring production environments are performing and secure
Engage with Technical Leads, Business Analysts, Product Managers, and Enterprise Architecture within (and across) the product groups to ensure alignment with the overall enterprise architecture
Help enable technical communities of practice in understanding architecture changes, new patterns, and new technologies
Requirements
5+ years of experience within solution architecture including designing and integrating technical applications and platforms
2+ years of experience configuring/administering Azure Cloud technology as it relates to analytics, data storage or data management
2+ years of experience working with API or integration software (ex:
Mulesoft or FastAPI)
Other
Experience working with Generative AI and LLM based solutions
Experience building and implementing APIs
Azure platform monitoring tool experience (ex:
Datadog)
Don't meet all the qualifications listed under "other"? These are preferred, but not required.
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The approximate pay range for this position is $130,000.00 to $165,000.00.
Please note that the pay range provided is a good faith estimate for the position at the time of posting.
Final compensation may vary based on factors including but not limited to knowledge, skills and abilities as well as geographic location.
Nestle offers performance-based incentives and a competitive total rewards package, which includes a 401k with company match, healthcare coverage and a broad range of other benefits.
Incentives and/or benefit packages may vary depending on the position.
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REQUISITION ID:

281934
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