Enterprise Architecture Director

McLane is one of the largest and most stable supply chain services leaders in the United States. We've been at the forefront of delivering retail and restaurant solutions for convenience stores, mass merchants, drug stores, and chain restaurants for over 125 years. Our vision is to be an agile, innovative, and unified supply chain partner that delivers a superior customer experience, improves the lives of our teammates and community, and produces best-in-class returns.

Improve the overall technology environment, and capabilities within McLane MBIS to maximize business value. Lead the Enterprise Architecture (EA) practice, framework to serve as a guide on how to build a holistic view of how the technology strategy aligns with the enterprise business strategy. Provide thought leadership in multiple domains of enterprise architecture (Business, Data, Application/Solution, Technical, Security), respected as an experienced architecture practitioner. Lead architecture governance, mature the EA practice, and contribute to the business and digital transformation efforts at McLane.

BENEFITS:

• Day 1 Benefits available: medical, dental, and vision insurance, FSA/HSA and company-paid life insurance.
• Get paid early. Get paid fast.
• 401(k) with annual company match.
• Paid holidays, Responsible Off (RTO), college tuition reimbursement, and more!

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS / PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Establish the EA framework for McLane MBIS as a guide and governance, including Business, Data, Application/Solution and Technology architecture.
• Develop the implementation and governance process for the Architecture framework.
• Lead the architecture risk assessments and review meetings to ensure that architecture designs developed align with the enterprise technology ecosystem and standards.
• Define, establish, prioritize, and drive adoption through influence across the MBIS and other stakeholders including architecture principles, models, frameworks, patterns, and guidelines.
• Set the governing standards for technology, integration/design patterns, methodology, and tooling used in the development or the deployment of solutions to the McLane production environment.
• Engage and lead teams through technology options - balancing security, fit for business purpose and cost vs benefit. This includes third party integrations, software as a service, infrastructure as a service and other cloud solutions.
• Provide forward looking perspective for the application portfolio, technology stack - how to best prioritize technical debt, where we should invest new, consolidate, replace, and retire technology solutions based on where the organization is heading. With this information - influence budget planning process and technology investment decisions across MBIS.
• Mentors team members on design, architecture practices and guidelines.
• Define the EA services, metrics and contribute to the EA practice maturity.

MINIMUM SKILLS AND QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS:

• A bachelor's degree in computer science or related field
• Ten or more years of diversified Information Technology experience required.
• Six or more years of experience in hands-on Enterprise, Business, and/or IT Solution Architect capacity preferred.
• Three or more years of experience leading and managing an Enterprise Architecture function preferred.
• Possesses highly developed interpersonal and communication skills, and has the passion and energy to lead, evangelize, and develop the EA organization into a world-class capability in the company.
• Ability to manage an architecture portfolio of projects simultaneously.
• Ability to prioritize, organize, and delegate assignments.
• Possesses leaning agility, business, and technical acumen.
• Possesses effective communication, cross-functional team collaborative leadership and problem-solving skills.
• Exposure and experience in Application Portfolio Rationalization, IT Strategy Alignment, and broad technology areas such as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer
• Relationship Management (CRM), Infrastructure, Security, Software Development and Business Analytics is a plus.

WORKING CONDITIONS:

• Office Environment

Candidates may be subject to a background check and drug screen, in accordance with applicable laws.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.