Senior Director Global Enterprise Architect Information Technology

As a member of Bacardi's Technology Leadership Team and reporting to the Chief Technology Officer, the Senior Director, Systems Architecture is responsible for the delivery of all enterprise applications solutions, including SAP and related third party enterprise applications. This position leads a team of highly effective leaders, cross functional architects and analysts to provide optimal systems through strategic design as well as daily operational support. This Senior Director position is responsible for setting priorities, being the change agent for transformation, and developing high performing teams.

ABOUT YOU

You're an inclusive, collaborative leader who harnesses technology to deliver exceptional outcomes. You build strong, trusted relationships, create a culture of excitement, and connect Primos globally-beyond hierarchy and titles.

You will have strong business acumen, and subject matter expertise in a diverse set of business functions such as product development, supply chain, warehouse, logistics & transportation, HR, sales/marketing, finance, and other corporate functions. Additionally, you will be adept in new technologies as well as industry and systems best practices.

ROLE CONTEXT & OBJECTIVES

Bacardi is undergoing a period of prosperity and growth - underpinned by the Best10 strategy - to deliver the best ten years () in our history and to put the consumer at the heart of what we do. Best10 is a transformational strategy that has already delivered several years of accelerated growth and led to a deep regeneration of our "all-in" highly people-centric and engaged culture. There are four key elements to our strategy:

• Place Bold Bets - a focused and dynamic process for allocating resources to develop our brands, markets and capabilities. By focusing on highly strategic brand/market combinations and allocating resources quickly to accelerate the growth within a key number of combinations we aim to deliver 85% of Group revenue from just 65 such brand/market combinations (from a total of over 1,600) and to drive year-on-year profitable growth.
• Re-ignite Marketing - delivering a revitalized consumer connection and journey and elevating our marketing through use of digital marketing, social media, digital platforms and data exploitation.
• Disrupting Future Moments that Matter - using digital technologies to disrupt and innovate - for example in growing the direct-to-consumer channel (historically very small but now accelerating during the pandemic), in reducing the time-to-market of new products, and in levering our brand portfolio to create new sources of revenue.
• Winning in the On-trade - ensuring the on-trade is a strong supporter of our brands - this is key feed-through into retail and online channels - putting the consumer at the heart.

Technology is at the heart of these initiatives and plays a key role in enabling our ability to deliver successfully on our ambitions. At the very heart of this role will be further evolving and developing a culture of community across teams, inclusivity and innovation within Marketing. Experience in driving commercial and consumer focused technology transformation and for driving innovation through digital technology and the exploitation of data will be key.

The role will be based in London.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provide full leadership for the Enterprise Applications Architecture team, including talent acquisition, career development, performance management, succession planning, and workforce engagement.
• Foster a culture of continuous learning, innovation, and excellence across the architecture function.
• Champion diversity, equity, and inclusion within the architecture team.

Architecture Ownership & Strategy

• Own and evolve the enterprise applications architecture strategy, aligning closely with business objectives and technology transformation goals.
• Develop and maintain business, data, application, integration, and technical architecture domains, ensuring alignment with enterprise-wide roadmaps and standards.
• Ensure architectural readiness for advanced capabilities including Artificial Intelligence (AI), Generative AI, Machine Learning (ML), and Graph-based data models. Define scalable patterns and platform foundations that enable their ethical and secure adoption.
• Define and communicate architecture principles, standards, and patterns to guide solution design and development across the organization.

Business Alignment & Capability Enablement

• Collaborate with Technology stakeholders to understand key business goals, processes, and capabilities, translating them into effective technology solutions.
• Drive business capability modelling and maturity assessments to inform IT investment decisions and enable business transformation.
• Support the identification and enablement of AI-powered business capabilities, including intelligent automation, predictive analytics, and hyper-personalization.
• Ensure solutions are scalable, sustainable, and designed to deliver measurable business value.
• Partner with the Technology Leadership Team (TLT), PMOs, and delivery teams to influence and shape the enterprise project portfolio.
• Provide architectural oversight and governance across key initiatives to ensure consistency, integration, and alignment to strategic goals.
• Support solution selection, project planning, and execution with architectural expertise and risk assessments.
• Support the management of enterprise application vendors, including evaluation, contracting, relationship management, and performance reviews.
• Optimize cloud services usage, architecture, and spend through proactive design, governance, and monitoring practices in collaboration with the TLT
• Ensure compliance with licensing, SLAs, and regulatory requirements.

Governance & Documentation

• Establish and lead enterprise architecture governance forums, ensuring cross-functional collaboration and accountability.
• Develop and maintain a comprehensive documentation framework, including architectural designs, configurations, functional and technical specs, test plans, and change logs.
• Promote architecture reuse and standardization to reduce complexity and technical debt.

Innovation & Thought Leadership

• Stay current on industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices; bring innovative thinking into the enterprise architecture domain.
• Serve as a thought leader for next-generation architectures that support AI/GenAI, advanced analytics, edge computing, graph databases, and other modern capabilities.
• Build external networks with peers, vendors, and thought leaders to shape forward-looking strategies.
• Partner with data, security, and engineering leaders to ensure foundational data platforms and governance models are AI-ready and responsibly implemented.
• Build and lead a high-performing global team.
• Foster a culture of innovation, accountability, and cross-functional collaboration across regions.
• Develop succession plans, nurture talent, and enable team members to grow as strategic business partners.

SKILLS - THE SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE NEEDED TO CREATE YOUR LEGACY

• This is an important appointment and will test a talented senior Technology leader with a broad marketing, transformational change and commercial background. The successful candidate will need to combine outstanding leadership skills, cultural adaptability, and digital innovation with real business impact and a sound commercial sense.
• Strategic enterprise architecture leadership with deep experience in shaping and governing cross-functional, global business solutions across finance, supply chain, manufacturing, HR, and commercial domains.
• Proven experience leading large enterprise applications teams, including delivery oversight, operations, vendor management, and stakeholder engagement in matrixed, global organizations.
• Functional and technical knowledge of SAP technologies, including S/4HANA.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP), including designing scalable, secure, and cost-optimized cloud-native and hybrid enterprise solutions.
• Strong understanding of integration patterns and platforms, including middleware, APIs, EDI, and event-driven architectures.
• Experience enabling AI, GenAI, and analytics capabilities through enterprise architecture, including data modeling, governance, and modern platform readiness (e.g., graph databases, semantic layers, AI integration patterns).
• Excellent communication and influence skills, with a track record of building strong relationships with business and technical stakeholders, and driving architectural decisions that enable business transformation.
• Experience with enterprise architecture tools and frameworks (e.g., TOGAF, ArchiMate, LeanIX, Bizzdesign) and governance processes that ensure alignment and agility.
• Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution, operating effectively across visioning, solution design, technical validation, and delivery oversight.

PERSONAL QUALITIES - SHARE OUR FOUNDER'S PASSION AND ENTREPRENEURIAL FLAIR

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