Staff Enterprise Architect

Job Summary:

As an Enterprise Architect, you'll establish our new Enterprise Architecture practice by conducting architecture reviews, reviewing and providing feedback on project intake, providing solution architecture guidance, and ensuring alignment between business goals and technology standards. You'll bridge communication between product owners and engineers, promote architectural best practices, drive architectural consistency, and guide solutions that enhance Byte platform profitability while ensuring efficient capital spend across Brand Digital & Technology initiatives. This is an opportunity to shape a new EA practice with strong support from leadership and dedicated resources for growth

Key Responsibilities: Architecture Review & Consultation:

· Co-own the Organization wide Architecture Review Process. Evaluate project intake based on complexity, new capabilities, vendor involvement, and cross-team impact

· Connect project teams with appropriate reviewers and provide architectural guidance based on best practices to drive consistent standards across the organization.

· Ensure architecture reviews are completed promptly to meet our SLA targets

· Provide clear recommendations and approvals through architecture reviews and consultation sessions.

Solution Architecture & Design:

· Drive innovation by identifying opportunities to leverage emerging technologies, including AI, and designing AI-driven solutions that enhance business capabilities, improve customer experiences, and support digital transformation initiatives.

· Support development teams with solution architecture activity, crafting designs that align with our enterprise principles, leverage appropriate vendor capabilities and give great return on investment

· Offer enterprise architectural context to teams on their proposals

· Ensure solutions are scalable, secure, and conform to enterprise standards

Strategic Architecture Development:

· Align technology capabilities with business objectives while identifying standardization opportunities

· Map applications to business processes to support roadmapping and strategic planning

· Maximize platform value through architectural reuse and cross-brand feature sharing

· Support efficient capital spend across Brand D&T initiatives

· Establish EA governance frameworks and educational materials

· Develop adaptive EA governance frameworks that enable standardization while empowering agile delivery teams

· Contribute to EA charter and communication plans

Stakeholder Engagement:

· Build relationships between product owners and engineers across brands

· Communicate architectural concepts to diverse audiences from executives to developers

· Secure stakeholder buy-in for EA initiatives

Security & Compliance:

· Collaborate with security teams to integrate security considerations into architectural designs and promote secure coding practices across restaurant technologies

Platform Expertise:

· Apply knowledge of federated GraphQL platforms to support brand-specific needs

· Enable co-creation between global and regional technology teams

Required Skills & Experience: · 7+ years Solution Architecture experience

o Experience crafting solutions that advocate secure software development practices in domains sensitive to CCPA, GDPR, PCI, and global tax regulations

· 5+ years of experience in Enterprise Architecture, specializing in multi-brand and cross-functional environments, ensuring seamless integration and collaboration across diverse teams and platforms

· Strong communication skills with ability to influence stakeholders at all levels (c-suite to junior engineers) with small and large audiences across the enterprise

· Experience proactively connecting with teams to drive consistency across federated organizational structures

· Ability to bridge technical and business perspectives to drive innovative solutions

· Experience introducing high impact Enterprise Architecture practices in complex environments

· Working knowledge of AWS, IaC, SQL, GraphQL, GIT, DataDog

Desired Skills & Experience:

· Experience with GoLang, NodeJS, TypeScript, or Rust and Terraform

· Experience designing and implementing AI-driven solutions and integrating AI capabilities into existing platforms

· Experience designing and implementing across a broad range of tech ecosystems such as federated GraphQL, POS, Kitchen Systems, IoT, Edge Computing, Martech, real time data analytics.

· Experience influencing secure coding activity, supporting vulnerability assessments, and guiding appropriate use of firewalls, WAFs, CDNs and DAMs.

· Experience in a related industry or a strong willingness to learn the specifics of the restaurant/QSR sector undergoing digital transformation

· Familiarity with restaurant technology ecosystems

Personal Attributes:

· Excellent communication skills with the ability to present ideas compellingly and influence stakeholders at all levels (c-suite to junior engineers).

· Ability to present concepts, standards and solutions in group and individual settings in a convincing way that drives their drive adoption.

· Ability to inspire and guide teams towards a shared vision, fostering a sense of purpose and direction.

· Skilled in delivering feedback and making clear, firm decisions with professionalism, including the ability to pushback when necessary while maintaining positive relationships.

· Strong analytical thinking and proactive, results-focused approach.

· Ability to work independently while considering broader team dynamics, ensuring effective collaboration and decision-making.

· Effective at mentoring and providing actionable guidance for less experienced team members.

Salary Range: $145,000 - $181,900 annually + bonus eligibility. This is the expected salary range for this position. Ultimately, in determining pay, we'll consider the successful candidate’s location, experience, and other job-related factors.

Benefits: Employees (and their eligible family members) may enroll in the following types of insurance coverage: medical, dental, vision, legal, and accidental death and dismemberment, as well as FSA/HSA (depending on enrolled medical plan). Yum! also provides short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance. Employees may enroll in our 401(k) plan. Yum! provides 4 weeks of vacation, paid sick leave, 10 paid holidays, a floating day off and 2 paid days for volunteer time each calendar year. To learn more about working at Yum! -Click here. 

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This posting will be open for a minimum of two weeks. Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until a candidate is selected.

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Yum! Brands, Inc., based in Louisville, Kentucky, and its subsidiaries franchise or operate a system of over 59,000 restaurants in more than 155 countries and territories under the company’s concepts – KFC, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut and Habit Burger & Grill. The Company's KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut brands are global leaders of the chicken, Mexican-style food, and pizza categories, respectively. Habit Burger & Grill is a fast casual restaurant concept specializing in made-to-order chargrilled burgers, sandwiches and more. In 2024, Yum! was named to the Dow Jones Sustainability Index North America, and the company was recognized among TIME Magazine’s list of Best Companies for Future Leaders, Newsweek’s list of America’s Most Responsible Companies and USA Today’s America’s Climate Leaders. Yum! also received widespread recognition in 2023, including being listed on the Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index; and Forbes’ list of America’s Best Employers for Diversity. In addition, KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut brands were ranked in the top five of Entrepreneur’s Top Global Franchises Ranking for 2023.