Digital Enterprise Architect

Why work for Dawn Foods?

PEOPLE.  PRODUCTS. CUSTOMERS. 

Why should you apply? We invest in you!

• Industry-leading health insurance on Day 1!
• Competitive Pay
• 401(K) + company match
• 10 Paid Company Holidays
• 3 weeks PTO
• Professional training
• Family-owned business over 100 years in service
• An opportunity for career advancement, working as part of an empowering workforce.

About the Job

Dawn Foods is a leading global bakery manufacturing and distribution organization with 100 years of history. We built our Digital innovation Hub in Boston and staffed the start-up with top talent from leading Boston eCommerce firms like BJs, Blueport Commerce, Dunkin, Keurig, Sapient, Staples, Vistaprint and Wayfair. The Boston office has a broad mandate to drive the company’s digital capabilities and reports to our Boston-based Chief Digital Officer. This is an early-stage opportunity to be a part of building our digital business from the ground up leveraging an agile, headless commerce architecture with the latest technologies across the digital ecosystem.

Dawn is looking for an Enterprise Architect with exceptional technical acumen to ensure that we make scalable long-term decisions about solution design and implementation of our digital platform. This is an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact to steer our digital journey and working with cutting edge technology.

This role will establish architectural standards and guidelines and will be directly involved in the design and implementation of eCommerce solutions. This position is Hybrid, with a requirement to work from our Boston, MA office, 1-3 times a week.

This role reports to our Boston-based, VP, Digital.

What You'll Do as a Digital Enterprise Architect

• Bachelors in computer science or related areas or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years of eCommerce systems experience, in-depth knowledge of fundamental concepts, practices, and procedures.
• Substantial knowledge of eCommerce (Platforms, CMS systems, Search Engines, PIMs).
• Knowledge of business ecosystems, SaaS, infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), SOA, APIs, open data, microservices, event-driven IT, and predictive analytics.
• Proven history implementing complex software solutions that align with business goals and objectives with demonstrable results.
• Advanced knowledge with a variety of IT technologies and business concepts, specifically composable commerce.
• Experience working with an ERP system integrating to eCommerce systems, SAP preferred.
• Knowledge of cloud native deployments and development environments.
• Understanding of project management, agile principles, and development methodologies.
• Experience developing architecture blueprints, strategies, and roadmaps.

Technical Skills Required

• OOP Languages: Java
• Web Services: SOAP, REST services, XML/XSL/XSD, GraphQL Server and Client
• Web Development: HTML, JavaScript, CSS, ReactJS, TypeScript, and NodeJS
• Middleware: Tomcat, Apache HTTP Server, Nginx, or other major application server(s)
• Databases: MySQL
• ERP: SAP, Netsuite or similar preferred
• ESB: Mulesoft, IBM or similar
• NoSQL/Caching: Cassandra, Redis, Memcached
• Security: Secure design and coding, scan tools, remediation, XSS, XSRF, SQLi, XMLi, CORS, etc.
• Infra: Hands-on experience with GCP, infrastructure-as-code toolset
• Containers: Docker, Kubernetes
• Development Tools: Apache Maven, GitHub
• Environment: Experience with Linux/RHEL and Bash scripting
• Testing: Continuous integration and writing unit tests, set up and maintain DevOps tools

What Does It Take to be a Digital Enterprise Architect Dawn Foods? 

Below are the minimum qualifications to be a fit for this job. 

• Collaborate with Business Partners, Digital and IT team members on analysis and design tasks required for the development of architecture models that achieve business driven outcomes.
• Design, develop and enhance features based on best practices, patterns and principles.
• Conduct code reviews and provide technical guidance to onshore and offshore developers to ensure that our solutions meet our requirement performance and security objectives.
• Communicate the enterprise architecture strategy and roadmap to business leaders, IT Leaders, and other stakeholders.
• Evaluate and recommend technologies, tools, and platforms to ensure the performance, scalability, reliability, and security of the eCommerce systems.
• Maintain the catalogue of EA technical and business artifacts of the EA portfolio.
• Carry out change management practices.
• Perform tasks and assignments requiring more advanced knowledge in the field of specialization, and of the organization, to develop recommendations to change policies or procedures.
• Complete assigned projects according to plan and within a fast-paced agile environment.
• 25% Travel

Work Environment

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by a Team Member to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Required to use motor coordination with arm, hand, finger, and leg dexterity.
• Required to exert physical effort in handling objects 25 pounds.  
• Normal setting for this job is office environment.

Note: The level of physical effort may vary from site to site and in some cases be greater or lesser than documented here.

About Our Benefits

Dawn is proud to employ the top talent in the baking industry, and we reward our people with comprehensive health and well-being coverage, competitive compensation packages, and award-winning benefit offerings. We also help protect your future financial health with a generous 401(k) matching program that provides additional retirement funds and many tools and resources on financial wellness. Dawn encourages professional growth through tuition assistance and educational programs, and we are always searching for ways to improve our industry-leading services and benefits.

 If this sounds like the opportunity that you have been looking for, please click "Apply.”

Compensation Range

$134,080 – $234,650.00 + Bonus Potential