Enterprise Architect

We are the Nestlé Nespresso SA Company and are proud to be one of the fastest growing operating unit of Nestlé. Our passionate, entrepreneurial-minded team has transformed Nespresso into the reference in portioned coffee and one of the world’s most trusted brands. Our growth comes from our commitment to research and development in order to pioneer and be the reference in the portioned coffee sector to provide the very highest quality coffees that could be enjoyed in the comfort of consumers' own homes and also savored at out-of-home locations, such as restaurants, hotels, offices and luxury retail businesses. We guarantee quality by taking a careful, thoughtful approach in how we source our ingredients, produce and market our premium coffee products. With corporate headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland, Nespresso is present in over 60 countries and counts over 12,000 employees worldwide. To learn more visit www.nespresso.com.

Join Nespresso's Digital and Tech Enterprise Architecture team! We manage the Enterprise and Solution Architecture for Nespresso’s global application landscape, supporting all markets and HQ functions. Our architects drive innovation and new features for the business, all while spearheading a digital transformation to enhance our competitiveness and speed to market.

We are seeking an Enterprise Architect to join our dynamic Digital and Technical community. Our team is collaborative and supportive, working together to integrate cutting-edge technologies and deliver features essential for Nespresso’s continued success.

The Enterprise Architect balances technological opportunities with business requirements and maintains a holistic view of the organisation’s strategy, processes, information and IT assets. S/He links the business mission, strategy and processes to the IT strategy. The Enterprise Architect is the guarantor of simplicity, agility and effectiveness of all IT products groups across the enterprise. The role cuts across all product groups to provide a consistent overall vision on how the different business capabilities, information, IT products and global / differentiated / tailored offers relate to each other. S/He is responsible for driving reuse and sharing of technology and best practices to maximise value delivered to the business. The Enterprise Architect is an owner of IT principles and standards and ensures the overall Enterprise Architecture and IT landscape are optimized to maximize business value while guaranteeing the required agility and speed to grow and innovate.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy Development:

• Creates and manages governing principles to guide EA decision making. Ensures that the optimal governance structure and compliance activities (such as handling waivers) are associated with EA.
• Leads identification and analysis of key industry and technology trends to assess potential effect on the enterprise and facilitate their testing with the Innovation team and the Product Managers Provides inputs and expertise to the Program. Managers and to Product Managers for budget definition and allocation of investments to meet business initiatives while optimizing the overall EA.
• Builds the long-term strategic roadmap for all IT architecture, linked to the product groups, the information flows and the overall corporate objectives.
• Supports the IT strategy and planning process to align continuously with the company’s business goals and objectives.
• Integrates business and IT strategy into enterprise architecture roadmap.
• Document the Enterprise Architecture artefacts inside the EA selected tool.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Develops relationships with other enterprise leaders to understand current and emerging business needs.
• Prepares and delivers comprehensive communications to convey architectural direction and how it aligns with enterprise strategies.
• Works with IT colleagues to ensure they have the appropriate information and knowledge at hand to be successful in what they do, in particular leads the Architect Community and supports their professionalization.
• Promotes the use of a shared infrastructure and application roadmap to reduce costs