IT&D Senior Manager, Enterprise Architect (ERP)

About the Position

We are Reckitt, home to the world's best loved and trusted hygiene, health, and nutrition brands. Our purpose is to protect, heal, and nurture in the relentless pursuit of a cleaner, healthier world. We are a global team united by this purpose. Join us in our fight to make access to the highest quality hygiene, wellness, and nourishment a right and not a privilege.

We are seeking a Senior Manager, Enterprise Architect (ERP) to play a key role in the development and operating of the Architecture Community of Practice and our modern Architecture Ways of Working, establishing a true “Architecture as a Strategy” culture and mindset. They will drive change activity across the enterprise’s technology and process landscape and will proactively lead the alignment of the IT and Business Strategy.

Responsibilities

• Act as a key transformation agent for Reckitt, embedding our operating model, and empowering IT&D teams with the tools, artefacts, support network, and ways of working to minimize unnecessary architecture handoffs.
• Design, implement, and enhance governance processes; run EA processes such as architecture review boards and design authorities; define and align the Business Capabilities model and the archetypes used to enable; define and maintain EA Standards and guardrails; and own and manage reference architecture framework and assets.
• In collaboration with the IT&D ERP leadership team, define Architecture viewpoints that support the definition and delivery of Target State Architectures. Support the development of short- and medium-term roadmaps to support the development of the portfolio towards the target state architecture, within the defined budget constraints.
• Provide oversight of projects, ensuring strategic alignment and adherence to Reckitt’s architecture principles and standards. Accountable for the architecture compliance of solutions and responsible to sign off the designs.
• Maintain and optimize the application portfolio with associated data quality in EAM tooling, with accountability for the ERP domain.
• Partner with the Global Cyber Security function to ensure that security architecture is embedded into all areas of the Enterprise Architecture Ways of Working.

Requirements

• Experience as Architect and subject matter expert within a Technology or Business domain. More than 5 years of architecture experience with SAP is essential for this role.
• Strong knowledge of the technologies and architectures associated with digital transformation.
• Pragmatic approach with good understanding of how to manage constraints and conflicting priorities.
• Highly motivated with excellent analysis, execution, and communication skills, who can collaborate with senior stakeholders, challenging and influencing roadmaps & decision making for Reckitt.
• A strong influencer, communicator, and storyteller, with the ability to make complex technical information simple and accessible for non-technical audiences.
• Good understanding of architectural approaches, models, and frameworks, such as TOGAF, with a proven track record of producing enterprise-level technology artefacts to support business and technology design decisions.

We Offer

With inclusion at the heart of everything we do, working alongside our four global Employee Resource Groups, we support our people at every step of their career journey, helping them to succeed in their own individual way. We invest in the wellbeing of our people through parental benefits, an Employee Assistance Program to promote mental health, and life insurance for all employees globally. We have a range of other benefits in line with the local market. Through our global share plans, we offer the opportunity to save and share in Reckitt's potential future successes. For eligible roles, we also offer short-term incentives to recognize, appreciate, and reward your work for delivering outstanding results. You will be rewarded in line with Reckitt's pay-for-performance philosophy.

About the Company

We recognize that in real life, great people don't always 'tick all the boxes'. That's why we hire for potential as well as experience. Even if you don't meet every point on the job description, if this role and our company feels like a good fit for you, we still want to hear from you. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, disability or medical condition; color, ethnicity, race, citizenship, and national origin; religion, faith; pregnancy, family status and caring responsibilities; sexual orientation; sex, gender identity, gender expression, and transgender identity; protected veteran status; size or any other basis protected by appropriate law.