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Role Overview
We are seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect within the Supply Chain & R&D domains to shape and evolve the technology strategy and roadmap. This role plays a critical bridge between business strategy and technology execution, ensuring architecture decisions accelerate business outcomes, reduce complexity, and enable scalable, future-ready platforms.
You will partner closely with senior business and IT leaders, guide investment decisions, and provide architectural leadership across transformation initiatives in a global, fast-moving CPG environment.
What You’ll Be Responsible For
Strategic Architecture & Business Alignment
- Drive enterprise architecture with a business-outcome lens across Supply Chain and R&D.
- Define and evolve the business technology strategy and multi-year roadmaps, covering applications, data, analytics, and integration.
- Translate business strategy into target-state architectures, capability models, and investment priorities.
- Proactively identify opportunities to digitize, modernize, and simplify business processes.
Architecture Governance & Portfolio Management
- Lead architecture governance, reference architecture development, and technology standards.
- Establish and mature application and technology portfolio management to increase transparency and reduce technical debt.
- Assess solution designs across business, data, application, and technology layers to identify optionality, risks and trade-offs.
- Accountable for High Level Designs across Supply Chain and R&D projects; ensuring solutions are fit-for-purpose and aligned with enterprise architecture principles.
Delivery Enablement & Technical Leadership
- Provide architectural leadership across the full SDLC, supporting both project-centric and product-centric operating models.
- Serve as architecture lead on complex initiatives, shaping solution design and ecosystem integration.
- Partner with delivery teams to guide design decisions and ensure architectural quality.
- Support build-vs-buy decisions and vendor evaluations; leading on software vendor selection exercises (RFPs).
Stakeholder Partnership & Influence
- Build strong relationships with business executives, product leaders, and technology partners.
- Communicate architecture direction and roadmaps in clear, compelling, executive-ready language.
- Act as a trusted advisor, able to challenge constructively and influence without authority.
Practice & Capability Development
- Mentor and coach architects, product teams, and stakeholders to instill strong architectural thinking.
- Contribute to the evolution of the Enterprise Architecture practice, operating model, and ways of working.
- Continuously monitor technology trends and disruptions relevant to Supply Chain, R&D, cloud, and data platforms.
Domain Expertise You Bring
- Strong functional knowledge of Supply Chain (e.g., IBP, Logistics, Warehousing).
- Solid understanding of R&D processes within a CPG environment.
- Hands-on experience architecting complex, integrated Supply Chain solutions.
- Deep familiarity with cloud and hybrid-cloud platforms, integration patterns, and modern application architectures.
Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
- 5-7 years of experience as an Enterprise Architect focused on Supply Chain.
- 4-6 years of prior experience in solution architecture or related technical roles.
- Demonstrated experience defining enterprise roadmaps and guiding large-scale transformations.
Core Competencies
- Systems thinking with the ability to balance long-term strategy and near-term delivery.
- Strong analytical skills with comfort assessing cost, risk, and value trade-offs.
- Executive-level communication and storytelling skills.
- Consulting mindset: collaborative, structured, and outcome-oriented.
- Ability to operate effectively in complex, federated, and politically nuanced environments.
Technical & Professional Skills
- Expertise in modern enterprise architecture concepts: SaaS, APIs, microservices, event-driven architectures, and analytics.
- Strong knowledge of domain/industry related technology landscape, accelerators and opportunities
- Experience in using AI solutions to bring business value in SC and R&D domains
- Strong understanding of operating models, financial management, and investment planning.
- Familiarity with EA frameworks, modeling tools, Agile and scaled Agile approaches.
- Proven leadership, facilitation, and stakeholder-management skills.
Company: Wella International Operations Switzerland Sàrl
Location: London
Job Description:
Role Overview
We are seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect within the Supply Chain & R&D domains to shape and evolve the technology strategy and roadmap. This role plays a critical bridge between business strategy and technology execution, ensuring architecture decisions accelerate business outcomes, reduce complexity, and enable scalable, future-ready platforms.
You will partner closely with senior business and IT leaders, guide investment decisions, and provide architectural leadership across transformation initiatives in a global, fast-moving CPG environment.
What You’ll Be Responsible For
Strategic Architecture & Business Alignment
- Drive enterprise architecture with a business-outcome lens across Supply Chain and R&D.
- Define and evolve the business technology strategy and multi-year roadmaps, covering applications, data, analytics, and integration.
- Translate business strategy into target-state architectures, capability models, and investment priorities.
- Proactively identify opportunities to digitize, modernize, and simplify business processes.
Architecture Governance & Portfolio Management
- Lead architecture governance, reference architecture development, and technology standards.
- Establish and mature application and technology portfolio management to increase transparency and reduce technical debt.
- Assess solution designs across business, data, application, and technology layers to identify optionality, risks and trade-offs.
- Accountable for High Level Designs across Supply Chain and R&D projects; ensuring solutions are fit-for-purpose and aligned with enterprise architecture principles.
Delivery Enablement & Technical Leadership
- Provide architectural leadership across the full SDLC, supporting both project-centric and product-centric operating models.
- Serve as architecture lead on complex initiatives, shaping solution design and ecosystem integration.
- Partner with delivery teams to guide design decisions and ensure architectural quality.
- Support build-vs-buy decisions and vendor evaluations; leading on software vendor selection exercises (RFPs).
Stakeholder Partnership & Influence
- Build strong relationships with business executives, product leaders, and technology partners.
- Communicate architecture direction and roadmaps in clear, compelling, executive-ready language.
- Act as a trusted advisor, able to challenge constructively and influence without authority.
Practice & Capability Development
- Mentor and coach architects, product teams, and stakeholders to instill strong architectural thinking.
- Contribute to the evolution of the Enterprise Architecture practice, operating model, and ways of working.
- Continuously monitor technology trends and disruptions relevant to Supply Chain, R&D, cloud, and data platforms.
Domain Expertise You Bring
- Strong functional knowledge of Supply Chain (e.g., IBP, Logistics, Warehousing).
- Solid understanding of R&D processes within a CPG environment.
- Hands-on experience architecting complex, integrated Supply Chain solutions.
- Deep familiarity with cloud and hybrid-cloud platforms, integration patterns, and modern application architectures.
Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
- 5-7 years of experience as an Enterprise Architect focused on Supply Chain.
- 4-6 years of prior experience in solution architecture or related technical roles.
- Demonstrated experience defining enterprise roadmaps and guiding large-scale transformations.
Core Competencies
- Systems thinking with the ability to balance long-term strategy and near-term delivery.
- Strong analytical skills with comfort assessing cost, risk, and value trade-offs.
- Executive-level communication and storytelling skills.
- Consulting mindset: collaborative, structured, and outcome-oriented.
- Ability to operate effectively in complex, federated, and politically nuanced environments.
Technical & Professional Skills
- Expertise in modern enterprise architecture concepts: SaaS, APIs, microservices, event-driven architectures, and analytics.
- Strong knowledge of domain/industry related technology landscape, accelerators and opportunities
- Experience in using AI solutions to bring business value in SC and R&D domains
- Strong understanding of operating models, financial management, and investment planning.
- Familiarity with EA frameworks, modeling tools, Agile and scaled Agile approaches.
- Proven leadership, facilitation, and stakeholder-management skills.
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Posted: May 11th, 2026