About this role
Requisition ID: 44113 Job DescriptionIn every role, McCainers are ambitious, curious, and passionate about creating exceptional work experiences - together. With a customer-first mindset, we make doing business with McCain easy. About the role.The Enterprise Architect is a senior individual contributor within Global Digital Technology's Enterprise Architecture team. Reporting to the Head of Enterprise Architecture, this role is accountable for shaping and governing the architecture of McCain's enterprise technology landscape, with a particular focus on SAP, enterprise platforms, cloud technologies, integration patterns, and digital transformation initiatives. This position plays a critical role in ensuring technology decisions across major programs remain aligned, scalable, secure, and business-focused as McCain continues its S/4HANA transformation, cloud migration, enterprise data platform evolution, operational technology modernization, and AI growth initiatives. What you'll be doing.Define and evolve enterprise architecture strategies that align technology investments with business objectives across McCain's global technology landscape. Partner with SAP leaders and key stakeholders to shape S/4HANA, SAP BTP, clean-core, and extension architecture strategies. Establish enterprise integration standards and guide the modernization and retirement of legacy application interfaces. Lead architecture decisions across cloud, enterprise platforms, applications, integration, and data domains to ensure consistency and scalability.Develop target-state architectures, reference models, architectural principles, and decision records that enable delivery teams to execute effectively.Evaluate application portfolios and recommend modernization, migration, replacement, retention, or decommissioning strategies. Identify and manage cross-program architecture dependencies, risks, and opportunities across major transformation initiatives.Serve as a trusted advisor to executive leaders, delivery teams, and technology partners on enterprise architecture decisions.Participate in architecture governance processes and provide oversight for high-impact technology initiatives and investments. Mentor architects and technical leaders, helping to strengthen enterprise architecture capabilities across the organization. What you'll need to be successful.Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.10+ years of experience spanning enterprise architecture, solution architecture, and hands-on technology delivery. Significant experience architecting and integrating large-scale SAP and Salesforce environments.Strong knowledge of enterprise integration architecture, APIs, event-driven architectures, middleware platforms, and legacy modernization approaches.Experience designing and governing cloud-based architectures, preferably within Microsoft Azure environments. Proven experience creating architecture artifacts such as target-state architectures, reference architectures, standards, and architecture decision records.Demonstrated success operating within large, global, matrixed organizations and influencing stakeholders without direct authority. Strong executive communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.Experience with SAP BTP, clean-core governance, enterprise data platforms, M&A integrations, or application portfolio management tools is considered an asset. TOGAF certification or comparable enterprise architecture credentials are preferred. About the team.The Enterprise Architect is part of the Global Digital Technology Enterprise Architecture team and reports directly to the Sr Director of Enterprise Architecture. The team serves as the architectural authority across McCain&rs