Architect, Enterprise

Job Summary

The Enterprise Architect (EA) provides leadership, stewardship, and analysis in efforts to assist the business and Information Systems department in making technology and infrastructure decisions that will enable growth and support of current and future strategic initiatives. Through lifecycle planning and road mapping this individual will be responsible for developing the application & infrastructure portfolios and for assuring these portfolios deliver the capabilities necessary to support Giant Eagle's business needs. The EA will be required to support integrated business and information systems development as well as innovative approaches to technology which support business requirements.

Job Description

• Experience Required: 5 to 10 years; 7 years of hands-on design and implementation experience in IT and/or business process improvement
• Experience Desired: 2 years knowledge of: Application Development Network Design, Middleware, Servers and Storage, Database Management, and Operations
• Education Desired: Bachelors Degree Computer Science/ Information Science or related experience
• Education Desired: Masters Degree Computer Science/ Information Science
• Travel Required: Regional - Daily, Less than 10%

Job Responsibilities:

• Partner with IT stakeholders in building and implementing a robust, scalable, and agile Enterprise Architecture to support the foundation of Giant Eagle's future.
• Partner with IT stakeholders in assessing the IT application & infrastructure portfolios today and design and execute the future state strategy to meet business objectives going forward.
• Make recommendations on the strategic use of technology for leveraging business results, and working with IT and business stakeholders to incorporate these recommendations into appropriate roadmaps and life cycle plans.
• Develop, establish, enforce, and sustain the Enterprise Architecture, including standards and guidelines for: application & infrastructure solutions and technologies, integration methodologies and practices, development processes, hardware platforms, and enterprise data design.
• Anticipate and ensure alignment with long term business requirements, ensuring identified change is reflected in the appropriate roadmaps, providing thought leadership in all areas of applied Information Technology, both internally and externally.
• Facilitate and steward the synchronization of the various business, application, and technology roadmaps with appropriate IT and business stakeholders, including change as described in application strategies, Life Cycle Plans, and business initiatives.
• Minimize the number of architectural components and total cost of ownership while maintaining a maximum of functional flexibility, reliability, and security.
• Must be able to balance the role of strategist with urgency, while simultaneously managing and delivering results in a growing and fast paced environment.
• Must demonstrate the ability to manage via influence and have the credibility and interpersonal skills to become respected as a thought leader. Must be capable of articulating pragmatic, sensible and simple solutions while executing across multiple business and technical perspectives.
• Act as a role model for service mentality, builds up long-term relationships with key internal customers and stakeholders, is receptive to the customer's needs, and actively manages the balance between costs and services.
• Facilitate and steward the documenting of the architecture design and analysis work, including the capture and mapping of the relationships between architecture components.
• Assist in executing governance and process improvement activities. Must be able to quickly understand the culture, business issues, and technology requirements, and be able to give unvarnished recommendations as to what is best for the organization.

About Us

At Giant Eagle Inc., we’re more than just food, fuel and convenience. We’re one giant family of diverse and talented Team Members. Our people are the heart and soul of our company. It’s why we strive to create a nurturing environment that offers countless career opportunities to grow. Deep caring and solid family values are what makes us one of the top work places for jobs in the Greater Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Columbus and Indianapolis Areas. From our Warehouses to our GetGo’s, our grocery Stores through our Corporate home office, we are working together to put food on shoppers' tables and smiles on their faces. We’re always searching for the best Team Members to welcome to our family. We invite you to join our Giant Eagle family. Come start a lasting career with us.