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Staff Enterprise Technical Architect
ExperiencedOn-siteFull-time
Location
Torreón, Coahuila, Mexico
Salary
Not listed
Experience
7+ years
Posted
Today
Job Description
Staff Enterprise Technical Architect
Location: TRC IT HUB - Torreon, El Fresno, Coahuila, Mexico
Relocation Assistance Eligible:
No
Referral Payout Eligible:
No
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Management Level:
P5
The Staff Enterprise Technical Architect I evaluates, creates, and maintains detailed technical patterns, platforms, and services that support technology and business capabilities. ETAs assist project/product teams in designing or building highly complex application and infrastructure components. ETAs evaluate and guide the organization to or away from emerging technologies based on projected benefit and TCO, and document and teach both new and established patterns to engineering teams. Enterprise Technical Architects, in collaboration with Enterprise Architects, own and manage the technology portfolio. Staff Architect I in Enterprise Technical Architecture oversee one or more technology stacks.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Scope of Coverage is one or more tech platforms (Cloud Native, Security, Mainframe, etc.).
Scope of Influence is direct partner technical team(s). Forward-looking to new patterns. Governance is a mix of tactical and strategic IT Job Architecture Job Profiles
Train and mentor partner teams within their area of expertise (tech area, business function).
Perform other assigned job-related duties that align with our organization's vision, mission, and values and fall within your scope of practice.
Technical Standards and Governance:
Evaluate, Establish, Coach/Train, and maintain enterprise-wide technical standards, guidelines, and best practices for software development, quality, and infrastructure.
Ensure compliance with these standards across all programs and projects.
Architecture Design and Review & Portfolio Management:
Design scalable, reliable, and secure architecture solutions that align with business goals and technical requirements.
Conduct architecture reviews and provide guidance to ensure alignment with enterprise standards.
Maintain technical portfolio in one’s area in collaboration with SW Engineering teams and leaders.
Cross-Disciplinary Expertise:
Leverage expertise in software development, quality, and infrastructure engineering to provide holistic architectural solutions.
Ensure seamless integration of development, quality, and infrastructure components.
Technology Evaluation and Selection:
Evaluate and select appropriate technologies, tools, and platforms that align with enterprise standards and business needs, including third-party solutions.
Conduct proof-of-concept (PoC) projects to validate technology choices.
Manage relationships with technology vendors and ensure that tools and services meet enterprise standards.
Collaboration and Communication:
Collaborate with development, quality, and infrastructure teams to ensure alignment with enterprise architecture standards.
Facilitate communication and knowledge sharing across teams and departments
Continuous Improvement:
Promote a culture of continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to enhance technical standards and practices.
Stay up to date with industry trends and emerging technologies to ensure the enterprise remains competitive.
Qualifications:
Education: Bachelor’s, Master’s Degree, or a significant amount of relevant experience. Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, Quantitative or Engineering Field preferred.
Preferred Certification(s): TOGAF, Cloud (AWS or GCP), Security, SAFe.
Experience: 7+ years of relevant and practical experience.
Strong grasp of modern software engineering concepts applied to live, business‑critical production systems.
Expertise in object oriented design, cloud native and distributed systems, including microservices, service to service communication, resiliency, and failure handling patterns.
Strong experience working with relational databases for transactional and analytical workloads.
Working knowledge of identity and access management concepts, including least‑privilege security practices and single sign‑on (SSO)
Solid understanding of web and API engineering fundamentals, including performance, accessibility, and system boundaries.
Practical literacy in relational data modeling and querying, including schema design and query performance considerations.
Experience with containerized workloads, orchestration concepts, scaling strategies, rollout/rollback patterns, and operational recovery.
Knowledge of system‑to‑system integration patterns, including synchronous/asynchronous communication, data contracts, and versioning across legacy and modern platforms.
Familiarity with CI/CD, DevSecOps, and cloud cost considerations, including delivery pipelines, security-by-design concepts, and architectural tradeoffs.
Proven ability to support and troubleshoot production systems, including participation in on‑call or operational support models where reliability and uptime matter.
Operational Support
Experience providing hands-on support in environments where downtime and data issues have immediate business impact.
Participation in support queues and on-call rotations.
Technical Leadership
Ownership of architectural decisions for complex systems, including tradeoffs related to scalability, cost, reliability, and operational risk.
Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction through evidence-based decision making rather than positional authority.
Ability to explain highly technical concepts to nontechnical leaders, particularly around risk, tradeoffs, and operational impact.
Drives improvements that span multiple teams or services, identifying systemic issues and leading technical solutions beyond immediate ownership boundaries.
Technical Strategy & Standards Ownership
Self-driven ability to vet new technical patterns, influence decision‑makers, and establish those patterns as new technical standards, including:
Designing and executing 3‑ and 5‑year roadmaps for applications within the portfolio.
Leading the design and governance of AI‑enabled capabilities, ensuring services are reliable, secure, and aligned with Tyson Foods’ architectural strategy.
Exercising sound judgment on where AI provides strategic value, and where traditional system design is more appropriate.
Preferred Technical Skills
Experience with Progress OpenEdge ABL, particularly in legacy or plant‑facing systems.
Extensive experience architecting and building web apps and system to system integrations
Hands-on experience with AWS SageMaker or similar ML platforms.
Experience working within Agile / Scrum delivery models.
Experience using Jira and ALM or enterprise testing tools.
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