IT Solutions Architect

**IT Solutions Architect - Mars Global Services**

This role leads the Recipe portfolio life-cycle activities and drives through the functional tower structure sustainable solutions to maximize the value contribution of company’s investment. The role holder is an advocate and enforces applicable standards, policies, procedures, and best practices in the implementation and/or maintenance of Recipe solutions. This role provides global depth technical and functional knowledge for Recipe solutions for design, development and operations for products and services in this area.

Also accountable for Design Authority and within the area for all products and services. This position reports to a Product Manager, working in strong collaboration with all BCF towers structure, but specially with the Product Senior Solution Architect. As such, the role provides broad exposure to business stakeholders around the globe, and required strong business process knowledge on Recipe and other R&D areas.

**What are we looking for?**
- IT Background
- Strong R&D knowledge, preferred on FMCG (Fast Moving Consumer Goods) industry. Experience on Business areas will be a plus.
- 3 to 5 years Experience in the functional area preferably in an IT role, operational role, key user or functional expert role
- Good knowledge of current business processes in the Recipe area. Will have in-depth knowledge of some processes and a strong aptitude to learn new process areas
- ITIL, PMI, Agile, DevOps, Scrum, Lean IT certifications will be a plus
- Proven leadership and influencing experience with key stakeholders
- Role model agile behaviors & methods with customers and peers
- Continuously learning and building skills independently and with external Networks
- Language: Fluent in English.

**What will be your key responsibilities?**
- Play Design Authority role for the Recipe solutions in the Product team, assessing impacts and approving all the initiatives that are going to be related to products and services on this product team.
- Seek highly automated solutions and new approaches to work for Recipe solutions
- Partnership with Product Owner and/or Functional Experts on continuous improvement, evolution of the product and Lifecycle management
- Translate EPICs into Technical designed solutions
- Participate on new design for solutions, services and products together with Business stakeholders, Enterprise Architecture, Transformational programs, Strategic Functional Capabilities, Business Partnership, etc.
- Liaise with the other BCF areas to ensure consistent cross-functional business process design
- Providing supervision and guidance to development teams around the current product and services design, assuring the design is protected and the global/mandate processes are secured
- Support Operations in complex and high impact issues and problems as they arise.
- Continually researching current and emerging technologies and proposing changes where needed
- Building and integrating other products and services to meet the company’s needs
- Accountable for process and technical knowledge gathering, update and validation of products and services in the Recipe area, including documentation/knowledge from external teams that will touch those services and products
- Support product manager on lifecycle management for products and services across the markets and locations, considering business priorities, budget, current versions and risks

**What can you expect from Mars?**
- Work with over 130,000 like-minded and talented Associates, all guided by The Five Principles.
- Join a purpose driven company, where we’re striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.
- Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.
- An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.

If you’re passionate about our brands, a great strategic thinking, deliver high quality decision and have a high drive for results, then we want to hear from you.

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