Solution Architect

Location : BAL - SEDE

City : Sao Paulo

State : São Paulo (BR-SP)

Country : Brazil (BR)

Requisition Number : 33511

Bunge has an exciting opportunity available for a Solution Architect. (Innovation) In this role you will be part of a global team working on challenging, meaningful projects impacting core business activities. Since 1818, Bunge has been connecting farmers to consumers to deliver essential food, feed, and fuel to the world. Looking to the future, our ambition is to continuously reinvent ourselves, leveraging data to be at the forefront of analytics, technology, and talent to accomplish our purpose in a better, faster, and simpler way. Bunge is committed to operating and thriving in the digital world - creating world class agile teams where teammates are empowered and encouraged to collaborate and test and learn to succeed.

At Bunge, people don’t just come here to work, they come here to grow - solving challenges that directly impact the world with a diverse team of thinkers and doers. Bunge offers a strong compensation and benefits package, generous paid time off program, flexible work arrangements, and opportunity to progress. **Our hybrid work environment provides a balance of in-office and remote work.**

Most importantly, in all we do we live our values:

- Act as One Team by fostering inclusion, collaboration, and respect.
- Drive for Excellence by being agile, innovative, and efficient.
- Do What's Right by acting safely, ethically, and sustainably.

**Overview**:
We are looking for an experienced, highly technical, and innovative architect with a passion for emerging technologies to join the Enterprise Architecture & Technology Enablement team in the Business Technology (BT) organization. The Solution Architect will be at the forefront of the innovation strategy and will be responsible for designing cutting-edge innovation patterns and platforms that can be efficiently and securely scaled to unlock new business opportunities. In addition, this person will lead global squads for cutting-edge technology delivery while acting as primary advisor for proofs-of-concept, proofs-of-value, and pilots. This role reports to the Technology Innovation Lead in the BT organization.

**Essential Functions**:

- Design and develop innovative, scalable, efficient, and secure technical architecture and infrastructure for PoCs that address business challenges.
- Introduce, test, and evaluate full-stack, reusable architecture patterns for technologies like AI, Blockchain, Metaverse, AR/VR, IoT, and robotics, and introduce automation for quickly creating new instances and environments.
- Coordinate with other technical professionals - such as cloud engineers, security engineers, data engineers, and compliance officials - to ensure that all patterns adhere to Bunge’s Enterprise Architecture principles.
- Routinely schedule and meet with critical external vendors and partners to stay on top of the latest technology trends and advancements and to understand best practices in the industry.
- Serve as an experience leader capable of guiding teams on complex technical issues and as a mentor for junior teams.
- Communicate effectively with technical and non-technical audiences to inspire creativity and collaboration while fostering a culture of innovation within the organization.
- Establish business cases and incubate new technologies. Collaborate with the leadership team to determine which new technologies to integrate into strategic 2-3-year roadmaps.
- Identify and protect valuable intellectual property generated through research and development efforts through patent filings and licensing agreement to safeguard the organization's innovative ideas and developments.
- Establish and evaluate Objectives & Key Results and performance metrics for technology innovation initiatives and provide regular reports to stakeholders.

**Requirements**:

- Artificial Intelligence (AI), including LLMs, Generative AI, machine learning, deep learning, and natural language processing.
- Blockchain technology, including distributed ledger technology, smart contracts, and consensus mechanisms.
- Cloud computing, including infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and software as a service (SaaS), and infrastructure as code (in particular Google Cloud Platform).
- Internet of Things (IoT), including sensors, actuators, and data analytics.
- 5G networks and edge computing.
- Augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR).
- Robotics and automation.
- Cybersecurity, including encryption, authentication, and access control.
- Data science and analytics, including statistics, predictive modeling, and optimization.
- Design thinking and user experience (UX)

Also, experience in a few of the following innovation activities is a plus:

- Hackathons
- Intrepreneurship and/or Entrepreneurship programs
- Coding competitions
- Open-source contributions

It would also be beneficial to understand IT governance str