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ASR Group

Enterprise Architect, Cloud & Digital Platforms

ASR Group, West Palm Beach, Florida, United States, 33412

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Florida Crystals is a leading domestic sugar producer and North America’s first fully integrated cane sugar company, guiding our sugar from farm to table. We are America’s first and only producer of certified organic sugar, grown and harvested in the United States. Our renewable energy facility is the largest of its kind in North America and provides clean energy that powers our sugar operations, which helps us reduce our use of fossil fuels. Florida Crystals also sustainably farms rice, sweet corn and other vegetables in rotation with our sugarcane. Our rice mill is the only rice mill in Florida.

OVERVIEW An experienced Enterprise Architect with specialization in cloud, data centers, cross IT disciplines, and artificial intelligence (AI). The Enterprise Architect plays a crucial role in shaping our future technology landscape and driving our digital transformation initiatives. With expertise in cloud computing, data center infrastructure, AI technologies, and enterprise wide presence the position is instrumental in making strategic decisions and ensuring optimal utilization of resources. In addition, this position is actively involved in all IT disciplines, including databases, development and monitoring tools, hardware and software, networks, and security in as much as the cause and effects across the IT landscape.

DETAILED ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES

Serve as advisor to functional, technical and tower leaders on business, information and infrastructure and cloud platform technology strategies

Partner with IT leaders and other architects to align on roadmaps to enable strategic capabilities for cloud and digital platform

Understand technology product and vendor strategies, products and roadmaps

Hold decision rights on cloud and platform roadmaps for technology areas working with stakeholders

Define future state architecture vision and develop target architecture roadmaps

Ensure technology investments are fully aligned to deliver maximum value

Ensure adherence to architecture references, Architecture principles and standards for efficient deployments and operations during project definition and implementation

Develop the cloud, platform, HA, SW, Desktop current & future state Architecture

Lead innovation initiatives that are strategic to the organization.

Evaluate and employ emerging technologies & industry trends to provide a competitive edge

Provide architectural review in the demand management process

Ensure project conformance and compliance with architecture definition and guidelines, and be an advisory member on blueprint sessions.

Identify and Mitigate Architectural Risks that would negatively impact our business/IT strategy, and IT Landscape.

Update and maintain the key Architecture deliverables

Actively engaged in Architecture and User Group communities

WORK EXPERIENCES

10+ years of experience in relevant IT functions

Develop and maintain the organization's enterprise architecture

Develop and articulate the technology vision, strategy, and roadmap for our organization, leveraging the rest of IT disciplines.

Drive IT functions to innovate through resource utilization of technologies such as databases, development tools, hardware and software, networks, security, and emerging technologies.

Experience with DBMS’s, Operating Systems, Data structures, Networks, Security, IT Business Resumption, Server and storage management, data center monitoring and optimization

Work with IT functions and Solutions owners to understand needs and future directions influencing company technology ecosystem.

Stay up-to-date on the latest technologies and trends

Communicates with both technical and non-technical audiences

Lead implementations of AI initiatives and identify opportunities to leverage AI technologies to improve business processes, enhance customer experiences, and innovation.

Collaborate with data scientists, engineers, and business stakeholders to develop and deploy AI solutions effectively.

Experienced with the latest industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices across all IT disciplines. Evaluate new technologies and assess their potential impact on the organization. Make informed recommendations on adopting new technologies to drive innovation and maintain a competitive edge.

Proven experience as an Enterprise Architect, with a focus on cloud, data centers, and AI across all IT disciplines.

Strong knowledge of cloud computing technologies, data center infrastructure, AI frameworks, databases structures and modeling, development tools, hardware and software, networks, and security.

EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS

Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or a related field (advanced degree or certifications preferred).

Strategic and organizational capabilities

Demonstrated ability to influencing business strategy and roadmaps

Excellent written and verbal communications skills

Thorough understanding of Business processes for a multinational corporation, preferably privately owned

Management skill (e.g. prioritization, trade-off analysis, etc.)

Able to understand the core functional processes to speak in business terms and drive stakeholders to the outcomes they are seeking. In addition, able to translate these ideal outcomes into what the technology, people, and process need to be.

Architecture and modelling capabilities

Understanding of Enterprise Architecture and enterprise architecture concepts, frameworks and standards.

Experience with Enterprise Architecture tools (e.g. BiZZdesign)

Knowledge of Business process notation BPMN and architecture language Archimate

Ability to lead process improvement and technology transformation projects

Technology capabilities

Thorough understanding of Microsoft, AwS and GCP cloud products and services as applied to our companies

Large-scale package software experience – with experience in SAP

Understanding of automation technologies. E.g. RPA, AI

Ability to apply all of the above on a global basis

Excellent written and verbal communications skills

Excellent interpersonal and customer relationship skills

Demonstrates exceptional customer service

Demonstrated leadership skills

Demonstrated problem solving skills

LOCATION OF ROLE

West Palm Beach

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, gender, sexual orientation, genderidentity, age,nationalorigin, disability, veteranstatusorany other category protected under federal, state, or local law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.

Nearest Major Market:

Palm Beach Nearest Secondary Market:

Miami

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