Digital Architect Production & Operations

Mission:

Digital transformation is changing our customers’ and employees’ expectations of their digital interactions. The mission is to design innovative end-to-end digital experiences for employees and/or customers that enable actionable data insights. The digital experience architect works in partnership with Business and ICT teams and should have a variety of functional and technical skills.

Key Accountabilities:

The digital experience architect is a change agent: Able to “walk a mile in the user’s/customer’s shoes” and help drive organizational change. She/he understands the user/customer journey & ensures alignment of future digital solutions with the strategic business objectives. The digital experience architect builds the IT roadmap for their respective domain by connecting strategy/investments to outcomes.

The digital experience architect is an innovator: She/he is creating an approach for thinking about work in novel, transformative ways with the use of digital technologies. She/he organizes and participates in POCs in accordance to the innovation funnel approved priorities. She/He applies agile principles to adjust to the evolving needs of the business and the customers.

The digital experience architect is a facilitator: The experience architect brings people together across teams and business lines to forge consensus and promote a culture of collaboration relating to digital solutions.

The digital experience architect maps the ICT solutions portfolio for their domain with focus on data and process dependencies between the application landscape. She/he aligns with other architects for the cross-domain integration. The digital experience architect manages the transformation of the IT solutions portfolio for their domain with focus on business value, future proofness, data insights, risk management and costs optimization. This effort is evolutionary in nature and includes decision making about replacing, upgrading, introducing new or retiring ICT applications.

The digital experience architect guides the projects teams during the implementation phase as and when required. She/he is in regular contact the project teams. She/He provides input to project managers and other staff members to develop budgets and timelines for solution roll outs. The digital experience architect can occasionally play to the role of the project manager especially for pilot projects or for highly complex projects.

The digital experience architect aligns with the support and service team to provide input for the ongoing governance of the digital solutions after the implementation phase.

The digital experience architect works in synergy with the business intelligence team and data science team to ensure measurable business outcomes (descriptive/predictive/prescriptive analytics) as part of the end-to-end solution design and implementation.

The digital experience architect collaborates with the infrastructure team for all aspects relating to the security footprint of the designed solution.

The digital experience architect collaborates with the integration team as well as other technical ICT experts to ensure smooth encapsulation of the future ICT solutions to the current landscape.

The digital experience architect is proving budget input for both CAPEX and OPEX to relevant ICT Managers (Budget owners) and to the project managers. For specific projects and initiatives the digital experience architect will play the role of the budget owner.

Who are we looking for?

You have experience with MES (SIEMENS Simatic IT (Opcenter) / Simatic Batch ), SCADA (PCS7/WinCC) and with Historian OEE (OSISoft, OSI PI)

SAP ERP (PP/PE) skills are a plus

You have worked previously with with Sensor tech (Versasense SmartMesh IP)

Any experience in InfluxDB / Grafana is a plus

You are a Change Manager/ Project Manager, used to work with Agile/Scrum/Kanban.

You have good analytical skills, with both detail and helicopter views

You have acquired ICT Integration skills , application development experience is a plus

You have an open mindset with emphasis on knowledge sharing

You are able to work independently and as part of a team

You are flexible and stress resistant

You are fluent in English (spoken and written), additional languages are an asset

Why would you join Puratos?

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You will join a stable and rapidly growing family business that has become an international market leader with a corporate culture in which innovation and entrepreneurship are among our top priorities. You will benefit from a great freedom in your work, with a great margin of initiative. You can expect a great work environment with many challenges:

• Responsibilities and possibility of taking ownership of one’s work

• Training and career opportunities to build your career within our company

You can count on a competitive salary package.

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Are you looking for the right recipe for your career?

The secrets behind Puratos’ global success and consistent growth are taste and quality. We would like to welcome you within our enthusiastic, committed and passionate team of more than 9000 employees. We are an international player and, what is more, a Belgian family business. Our people make the difference every single day. How? By developing, producing and distributing a unique and high-quality range of ingredients for bakers, pastry-chefs and chocolatiers, since 1919.

A century later, our products and services are available in more than 100 countries around the world. Our passion for innovation, closeness to our customers, and their customers, as well as our core values form the basis of our passion to improve.
This is what makes working at Puratos so magical!

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