Enterprise Architect - Technology Ingrastructure & Service Delivery

You may know McCormick as a leader in herbs, spices, seasonings, and condiments – and we’re only getting started. At McCormick, we’re always looking for new people to bring their unique flavor to our team.

McCormick employees – all 14,000 of us across the world – are what makes this company a great place to work.

We are hiring immediately for a Enterprise Architect - Technology Infrastructue and Service Delivery.

Position Overview:

• Act as key advisory to the Business Unit / Functional leadership team as well as a key contributor to McCormick's Enterprise Architecture (EA) strategy, engaging in a highly collaborative way to understand the business domain including strategic business needs and roadmaps; collaborate with the functional area to solve unique and high complex technology Architecture or business-significant problems, build capabilities, and shape technology strategy.


• Act as a primary architecture domain expert in the accountable capability area; Lead the development of architecture strategy, roadmaps, and guardrails.  Utilize business capability models, technology reference models, and functional area roadmaps to guide investment decisions in support of executing business and IT strategy.


• Represent capability domain needs within Enterprise Architecture. Track and apply emerging innovative and existing technologies, anchoring them in the business model to assess their potential, and help to evolve innovations.


• Influence and contribute EA and Global IT’s strategic goals, maintaining central awareness of value stream, business capability map, and changes to architecture roadmaps. Guide pragmatic alignment to global IT standards and EA Guiding Principles

Key Responsibilities: 

• Works on complex projects that require in-depth knowledge of a specialized capability within their architecture domain, providing architectural designs and guidance.


• Act as a trusted advisor in service to Product Line leader on the Product Line leadership team.   Work to solve the product lines challenges through design, strategy, and solutions.


• Lead solution architecture within projects and products to align to enterprise strategy and standards while pragmatically solving for the requirements and optimization both within the product and across the enterprise.


• Participates in the creation of governing principles and standards to guide architecture decision making. Identifies exceptions to architectural standards at an enterprise level and facilitates resolution. Reviews and/or analyzes and develops architectural and security requirements as needed for the organization.


• Performs research on emerging technologies in support of systems development efforts and recommends technologies that will improve cost effectiveness and systems flexibility. Develop, document, and communicate plans for investing in systems architecture, including analysis of cost reduction opportunities.

Desired Candidate Profile: 

• 15+ Years of IT experience, with a significant amount of time spent in an engineering / architecture role.


• Significant, well-rounded business acumen for the CPG industries; Significant depth in the focus business architecture domain and  technical architecture domain (infrastructure, applications, integration, information & data, cyber security, etc.)


• Familiarity with information management practices, regulatory requirements and data privacy laws, especially those that uniquely effect the pharmaceutical industry


• Knowledge of business ecosystems, SaaS, infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), SOA, APIs, ERP, microservices, event-driven IT and predictive analytics

McCormick & Company is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

As a general policy, McCormick does not offer employment visa sponsorships upon hire or in the future.