Senior Solution Architect - Wide Area Network

<p><a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fvirtualnestleit.vfairs.com%2Fit%2F&amp;data=04%7C01%7CClaudia.Abate%40it.nestle.com%7C79c0f128a64d42718c9208d9870f92be%7C12a3af23a7694654847f958f3d479f4a%7C0%7C0%7C637689323537999192%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=pfPgim1YggnuPGcbwKnHa%2F%2BXPbGQgYCwPq2N582A%2BYk%3D&amp;reserved=0">Make a virtual tour inside Nestlé in Italy</a></p> <p> </p> <p>Position Snapshot</p> <p> </p> <ul> <li>Location: Nestlé Global IT Hub in Milan, Italy</li> <li>Full-time permanent contract with some flexibility to work remotely</li> <li>Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, System Analysis or a related study or equivalent experience</li> <li>Fluent English</li> <li>IS/IT – IT Platforms global design team, reporting to the Connectivity Product Manager  </li> <li>10+ Years Experience in Network design and implementation activities across large number of sites</li> <li>5+ Years’ experience reporting to a function with Service &amp; result orientation behavior<br/>  </li> </ul> <p>Position Summary</p> <p> </p> <p>Are you a talented Senior Solution Architect ready to join Nestlé’s new IT Platforms - Connectivity, Voice and Conferencing team in Milan, Italy?</p> <p> </p> <p>We need you to holistically oversee our architecture design and implementations for Network connectivity solutions, technologies and services, related to MPLS, Local Internet Breakout, SD-WAN, hybrid cloud connectivity, while constantly delivering tomorrow’s innovations to our workforce.</p> <p> </p> <p>A day in the life of a Senior Solution Architect - WAN</p> <p> </p> <ul> <li>Take on the role of a Lean-Agile leader, defining architectural designs to guide and contextualize solution development.</li> <li>Manage &amp; develop the architecture for a broader scope platform and deliver the architectural design for products. Translate business needs into a solution blueprint and represent the end-to-end technical solution.</li> <li>Define guidelines &amp; solution patterns to ensure that product-based decisions are within the Enterprise Architecture vision.</li> <li>Manage adoption, design, and integration of WAN/SD-WAN connectivity solution architecture with CVC and IT Platforms teams and suppliers to deliver expected business value in an optimal way.</li> <li>Supervise, design, and execute the integration, in collaboration with our Platform Integration team, to ensure that each product or solution has a properly defined architecture specification (design, diagrams, process maps, governance, and compliance).</li> <li>Facilitate the evaluation and selection of new WAN product and services, in close collaboration with the business and IS/IT, to accurately capture business requirements and pain points.</li> <li>Identify the financial and organizational impact of the solution architecture.</li> <li>Provide consulting and design assistance to the business and to product owners.</li> </ul> <p> <br/> What will make you successful</p> <p> </p> <ul> <li>Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, System Analysis or a related study or equivalent experience.</li> <li>Certified on and/or strong expertise working with multiple WAN diverse technologies, solutions, and services, including Cisco SD-WAN, Site Connectivity, Cloud Connectivity, Network monitoring and management.</li> <li>7+ years of experience in at least three IT solution development disciplines, including technical architecture, application architecture, data architecture, integration, project management or operations.</li> <li>10+ Years Experience in Network design and implementation activities across large number of sites.</li> <li>5+ Years’ experience reporting to a function with Service &amp; result orientation behavior. </li> <li>Good knowledge of the entire networking technologies spectrum, including LAN and Wifi, Firewalling and Web browsing.</li> <li>Proven ability to support project teams by providing advice and guidance on opportunities, impact, and risks that take into account technical and architectural needs.</li> <li>Experience working in and/or managing advisory councils, industry user groups, and key technology partners (vendors, Account Managers, Product Managers, Lab advocates and Executives).</li> <li>Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies and infrastructure environments.</li> <li>Ability to translate future-state business capabilities and requirements into solution architecture requirements.</li> <li>Ability to understand the long-term ("big picture") and short-term perspectives of situations.</li> <li>Strong experience with effective communication at different levels in the organization in English.</li> <li>Innovator while having an analytical thinking.</li> <li>Capable of influencing with integrity.<br/>  </li> </ul> <p>We will only consider applications and CVs in English. </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p><em>We are Nestlé.