Director, Technology Services

Rich’s, also known as Rich Products Corporation, is a family-owned food company dedicated to inspiring possibilities. From cakes and icings to pizza, appetizers and specialty toppings, our products are used in homes, restaurants and bakeries around the world. Beyond great food, our customers also gain insights to help them stay competitive, no matter their size. Our portfolio includes creative solutions geared at helping food industry professionals compete in foodservice, retail, in-store bakery, deli, and prepared foods, among others. Working in 100 locations globally, with annual sales exceeding $4 billion, Rich’s is a global leader with a focus on everything that family makes possible. Rich’s®—Infinite Possibilities. One Family.

PURPOSE STATEMENT

Rich’s is growing our Enterprise Architecture team. We seek a collaborative, self-directed, and globally focused individual to join our team to support Rich Product’s corporate global growth strategy.  In this role, you will routinely work with leaders from across the globe and at World Headquarters (WHQ) to create new solutions that meet business needs.

The Director, Technology Services reports to the VP, Chief Enterprise Architect. In the role you will play in developing and implementing our organization's technology strategy to support business objectives and drive digital transformation. You will provide leadership and guidance in the planning, designing, and implementing enterprise-wide technology solutions. 

This position requires deep customer-focused thinking and the ability to be hands-on and make decisions fast. You will significantly influence our strategy for bringing in new technology platforms, tools, and languages/frameworks. We are looking at self-motivated individuals who are highly detail-oriented and take pride in their deliverables.

Working at Rich’s, we believe in a flexible work environment, whether working a day in our newly renovated headquarters or at home by using our cutting-edge technologies to deliver results from anywhere.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES/OUTCOMES

•    Develop and communicate the organization's enterprise architecture strategy and vision.
•    Lead and mentor a team of enterprise architects, ensuring alignment with company goals and standards.
•    Develop and drive architectures that will enable applications to have high availability, performance, seamless integration (loosely coupled), high quality, reliability, and user-driven reporting and analytics capabilities.
•    Be a technical consultant for development teams by partnering closely with the other technology groups to develop the end-to-end solution architecture, including application, data, integration, security, and infrastructure domains.
•    Own the design of significant architecture, frameworks, and components of cloud-based Platform as a Service (PaaS) that abstracts the underlying infrastructure for the applications. 
•    Be a strategic thinker that drives next-generation Architecture on Cloud, Micro Services, Containers, DevOps, etc.
•    Proven ability to quickly comprehend and adopt new technologies by doing technology POCs and Pilots to prove the business value, formalize it as enterprise standards, and build reference architectures.
•    Establish end-to-end architectural scope (e.g., Health Check, App Modernization, Cloud Native Development) to drive roadmaps, desired technologies, and target state architectures across the portfolio (Reduce technology debt, duplication, and silos)
•    Drive the overall roadmap and strategic vision for the modern architecture and experiences, ensuring a robust product roadmap to support digital solutions strategy.
•    Communicate key business benefits and implications of technology decisions and outcomes to business portfolio leaders and senior executive management.
•    Works with IS Business partners to align architecture roadmaps with business strategy and technology delivery plans.
•    Facilitate continuous learning opportunities and empower teams to improve the performance of teams.

KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS/EXPERIENCE

•    Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Computer Science, or equivalent
•    At least 10 years’ experience in software development, with 5+ years of in-depth experience in setting environments to deploy services on public cloud.
•    Solid architectural experience in building Cloud-based Platforms as a Service that is Cloud Infrastructure provider agnostic.
•    Experience designing/architecting large-scale distributed systems, preferably using Microsoft technologies.
•    Familiarity with IoT (Internet of Things) concepts and applications.
•    Familiarity with DevOps and DevSecOps concepts
•    Experience with and knowledge of common Architecture patterns (e.g. microservices, Cloud Patterns, Dependency injection, Event sourcing, etc.).
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