Solution Architect - Data, AI / ML

What You Need To Know

Shape a remarkable future with us. Build a career working for an industry leader that truly invests in their people - and equips them with leading technology, continuous learning, and the ability to bring their best selves to work. As the premier wine and spirits distributor, Southern Glazer's isn't just one of Forbes' Top Private Companies; it's a family-owned business with deep roots dating back to 1933.

The reputation of Southern Glazer's is well-established, and it's no surprise that we are regularly recognized for our culture. Southern Glazer's has been recognized by Newsweek as one of America's Greatest Workplaces for Inclusion and Diversity, as well as for Women and Parents & Families. These accolades speak volumes about our commitment to creating a supportive and inclusive culture of belonging for all employees.

As a full-time employee, you can choose from a wide-ranging menu of our Top Shelf Benefits, including comprehensive medical and prescription drug coverage, dental and vision plans, tax-saving Flexible Spending Accounts, disability coverage, life insurance plans, and a 401(k) plan. We also offer tuition assistance, a wellness program, parental leave, vacation accrual, paid sick leave, and more.

By joining Southern Glazer's, you would be part of a team that values excellence, innovation, and community. This is more than just a job - it's an opportunity to build the future of beverage distribution and grow with a company that truly cares about its people.

Overview

The Solution Architect will design and maintain and execute the current & target architecture for their domain, serving a diverse range of internal and external users over the fulfillment and maturity of their products and services. The Solution Architect will create and guide solution approach development, manage architectural debts and trigger new architectural decisions as required. The Solution Architect will provide guidance from an architectural perspective to business leadership, management, and engineering.

Duties and Responsibilities

Under guidance of the Enterprise Architect, help define and implement enterprise data, analytics, AI architecture roadmap, standards and principles aligning with business goals.

Define conceptual, logical and physical data models, integration pipelines for complex data systems including data warehouses and data lakes.

Develop data architecture for business applications and guide product delivery teams as needed covering data model, data flows, data integration, design data repositories etc.

Deliver solution architecture for analytics and advanced analytics (AI / ML, GenAI) use cases across the enterprise.

Review and define the principles that guide technology decisions for the enterprise in their domain.

Design the implementation of a data architecture based on business requirements and IT strategies, as well as to rectify gaps and pain points within the current state.

Lead and contribute to the domain technical and business discussions relative to future architecture direction.

Analyze the current data platform technology environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement.

Lead the evaluation and selection of data, AI / ML, technology and products, as well as the design of standard configurations for given domain.

Lead and facilitates the domain's architecture governance process based on Enterprise Architecture's governance structure.

Minimum Qualifications / Requirements

Bachelor's degree in information science and technology, Business Administration, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.

Typically, 5+ years' relevant IT and business / industry experience, including experience in multiple IT areas, such as applications, data architecture, architecture design and deployment, systems lifecycle management, and infrastructure planning and operations.

Typically, 3+ years' relevant architecture experience.

Typically, 3+ years' project / program management experience, preferably leading projects.

Expert level knowledge of data platforms, data pipelines, AI / ML engineering, Enabling & guiding Gen AI implementations.

Experience in an agile environment preferred.

Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies and processing environments.

Deep experience applying existing, new, and emerging technologies to new and evolving business and operating models.

Deep experience with business transformation and process redesign methods.

Experience developing and monitoring delivery of efficient and effective solutions to diverse and complex business problems.

Experience with business capability modeling.

Native-level proficiency / fluent in English.

Preferred Skills

Strong knowledge of business architecture tools and techniques, including strategy on a page, strategic planning, business model canvas, disruptions and trends, balance scorecard, economical modeling, risks and interdependencies, process models, business capability modeling, ecosystems modeling, customer and user profiling, journey maps, and human-centric design.

Strong knowledge and understanding of different types of business and operating models (existing, new, emerging and hybrid).

Experience with DataBricks, Confluent Kafka, PowerBI, Tableau, Business Objects and SAP ERP, supporting data needs for highly available e-commerce applications is preferred.

Knowledge of Supply chain, logistics and e-commerce.

Enabling streamlined development of AI.ML models, Gen AI use cases at scale for the enterprise.

Deep knowledge of existing, new and emerging technologies and being able to practically incorporate them into new business designs and business models.

Knowledge in all aspects of designing and constructing business processes, functions and organizational structures.

Comprehensive knowledge of facilitation and organization change management.

Strong analytical and conceptual skills and proven ability to create original concepts and theories for a variety of projects.

Leading financial analysis, architecture evaluation, solutions delivery orchestration, project management, road mapping, risk management, interdependency management, agile methodologies, information security, cloud computing infrastructure, data architecture skills.

Proven ability to apply multiple technical solutions to enable future-state business capabilities that, in turn, drive targeted business outcomes.

Proven ability to communicate, influence and persuade - both business and IT leaders as well as peers.

Strong ability to leverage intellectual curiosity to inform solutions and innovate.

Strong ability to take responsibility for personal growth and acquire strategies for gaining new knowledge, behaviors and skills.

Physical Demands

Physical demands include a considerable amount of time sitting and typing / keyboarding, using a computer (e.g., keyboard, mouse, and monitor), or mobile device

Physical demands with activity or condition may occasionally include walking, bending, reaching, standing, squatting, and stooping

May require occasional lifting / lowering, pushing, carrying, or pulling up to 20lbs

EEO Statement

Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits, an Affirmative Action / EEO employer, prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. SGWS complies with all federal, state and local laws concerning consideration of a qualified applicant's arrest and / or criminal conviction records. Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits provides competitive compensation based on estimated performance level consistent with the past relevant experience, knowledge, skills, abilities and education of employees. Unless otherwise expressly stated, any pay ranges posted here are estimates from outside of Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits and do not reflect Southern Glazer's pay bands or ranges.

Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.