Ocean Spray is hiring for a(n) Sr. Mgr. Enterprise Architecture! We’re a team of farmers, thinkers, creators, and doers. Whatever your title, whatever your role — it always comes back to this: we’re a farmer-owned co-op where everyone rolls up their sleeves to get the job done. Three maverick farmers started it all — and we’ve been making our own way ever since.
Position Location: We're all about flexibility! This will be a hybrid role based out of our corporate headquarters in Lakeville, MA with Mondays and Fridays remote.
The successful candidate will have a unique opportunity to use their strategic experience and technical expertise to define the technology platforms that enable our Cooperative to be efficient and increase our speed to market for digital initiatives and innovation. The position is a highly collaborative one, which is essential to ensure business/customer first approach in designing the right Platform for sustainable growth, agility and efficiency for the Cooperative. As we modernize Ocean Spray (cloud ERP, data modernization, digital core) this role becomes critical to our enterprise success with the definition and building of our technology backbone to support our business. We are looking for someone with extensive application and solution architecture background, who has made career progression into architect role and can lead us through change. Someone who does not think of application, infrastructure, cloud, security, and compliance as unrelated aspects, but rather equally important components of well-crafted tech solutions to create an enhanced experience with not only our external but also our internal stakeholders. You will be well versed in large scale transformation (especially related to the ERP rollouts) and translating the business and IT strategy into a technology roadmap that will underpin our success. You will lead the design and solutioning of enterprise capabilities including integration patterns and underpinning infrastructure and work closely with other teams to continually evolve our technical landscape.
A Day in the Life...
ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE & STRATEGY
- Set the technology blueprint and strategy for platforms, linked to our business strategies and product initiatives, including the integration layers (API/ETL) between all in-house and SaaS applications, workflows and customization, extensions, and all customer/consumer facing applications
- Define enterprise-wide reference architectures and roadmaps spanning ERP, integration, data, digital, and cloud platforms
- Translate business capability roadmaps into technology capability models and architectural guardrails
- Ensure alignment between enterprise architecture, security, data governance, and infrastructure strategies
- Own the definition and lifecycle management of architectural standards, including intentional retirement of legacy patterns
- Maintain current on new technologies and IT management practices and provide direction on what emerging IT technologies and methods should be introduced for maximum business value
- Works toward a balance between growing the agility required to achieve digital business objectives and ensuring the core IT functions are reliable, stable, and efficient
DECISION AUTHORITY & GOVERNANCE
- Lead the establishment of standards for IT tools and platforms
- Spearhead the underlying technology choices and architectural trade-offs aligned with business and financial objectives.
- Establish appropriate architecture review and governance processes, leading system architecture and solution architecture decisions with project and product teams through an architecture committee
- Work with delivery teams to establish processes and norms for code reviews of pre-release software and ensure all security best practices are followed
- Serve as the final decision authority for enterprise architecture standards and platform-level architectural decisions
PARTNERING & INFLUENCE
- Work closely with the Product Partners & PMO, to review IT roadmaps and assess under lying
architectural needs and considerations
- Work with design and delivery teams to ensure architectural considerations, IT standards and appropriate tools are being applied in technical specifications and overall IT delivery approach
- Act as a trusted advisor to senior business and IT leaders on technology strategy, investments, and risk
What We Are Looking For:
Required
- Demonstrated experience defining enterprise architecture operating models, including governance, decision rights, and engagement models
- Strong capability-based architecture experience (business capabilities technology enablement)
- Experience balancing enterprise standards with team autonomy in scaled agile environments
- Proven ability to assess architectural risk and technical debt and communicate trade-offs at an executive level
- Experience within transformational (ERP-like) programs with the leading, building and execution of technology architecture and integration success during transition and steady state
- 4-5 years of data and analytics tools and the design and integration of this architecture
- Exposure to and experience of digital commerce solutions
- Deep understanding of the full software development life cycle (SDLC), including coding standards, code review, source control, build, test, deploy, and operations
- Extensive experience with security frameworks and standards such as OAuth2, OIDC, SAML
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively with others within a complex, cross-functional and fast paced organization with globally distributed teams
- Strong written and visual communication skills, including creation of architecture views for executive and delivery audiences
- General working experience of both waterfall and Agile/ Scrum methodology
Preferred
- MS in computer science or related field or equivalent relevant experience, with a focus on Software Engineering
- 10+ years of experience with progressive leadership responsibilities including leading development and infrastructure for SAP and other enterprise technologies. Hands-on experience with application development in SAP ABAP & BTP as well as SAP BASIS preferred
- Prior experience serving as an enterprise or domain architect within large-scale ERP transformations
- 2 or more years’ experience with integration platforms such as MuleSoft, Kubernetes, Azure API, Azure Functions, Graph, Kerberos
- 2 or more years of experience with cloud security, CI/CD tools
- Experience with container development and orchestration solutions (AKS)
Education:
Bachelor's or University Degree (Required) Master's Degree (Preferred)
Work Experience:
At least 10 Years of Experience
Annual Salary:
$147,200 - $184,000
The base salary range information above serves as a guideline of the position’s typical hiring range. We value and appreciate what makes you unique and will consider a variety of factors when determining an offer. These factors include, but are not limited to, your skills and experience, external and internal benchmarks, as well as overall company considerations. Certain positions may be eligible for short-term and long-term incentive rewards. We also offer a competitive and comprehensive benefits program that supports all aspects of your health and well-being.
Benefits:
Complete insurance package on Day-1 that includes a plethora of health and wellness programs
Health, Dental and Vision insurance
Health savings account
Flexible spending account
Life and accident insurance
Employee assistance program
Telehealth services
1:1 health coaching
Supportive benefits for all the stages of your life
401(k) with up to 6% Company matching; additional potential discretionary match at year-end
Short-Term Incentive/Performance bonuses
Flexible scheduling options
Vacation pay, up to three weeks of time (pro-rated for your first year of employment)
Holiday pay for 12 holidays
Career development and growth opportunities
Tuition/Education assistance programs
Access to LinkedIn Learning
Scholarship programs for children of employees
Parental leave
Bright Horizons Family Solutions – Back-up care, tutoring, etc.
Adoption assistance
Bereavement leave
Up to $300 fitness reimbursement
Up to $300 massage reimbursement
Employee appreciation events
Employee discounts
Charitable giving
Who We Are:
You might have our iconic cranberry juice in your fridge or have gotten into heated holiday debate about what’s better - canned or fresh cranberry sauce. But did you know that the hardworking people growing the superfruit in our products are 700 family farmers that own our cooperative? They entrust us with what is most precious to them to create new and innovative products that will delight consumers and grow this beloved brand today and into the future.
Team members, farmers, consumers and communities alike-we value what makes us unique and strive to connect our farms to families for a better life by living our values:
- Grower Mindset – We embrace our grower-owners innovative spirit and heritage through confidence, learning and focus on the future.
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Sustainable Results – Guided by purpose, we are focused on delivering results for our grower-owners.
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Integrity Above All – We are ethical, doing the right thing for our grower-owners, customers, consumers and each other
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Inclusive Teamwork – We build diverse and inclusive teams that strengthen our cooperative.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.
For MA Applicants – It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. Any employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
