THE BIG PICTURE
Sysco LABS is the captive innovation center for Sysco Corporation (NYSE:SYY), a Fortune 100 company and the world’s largest foodservice provider with 71,000+ associates, 330+ distribution centers and over 725,000 customers in 90 countries. For fiscal 2023 that ended July 1, 2023, Sysco generated over $76 billion in sales.
Sysco LABS powers Sysco’s farm-to-fork operations and our technology is present in the sourcing of food products, merchandising, storage and warehouse operations, order placement and pricing algorithms, the delivery of food and supplies to Sysco’s global network, the in-restaurant dining experience of the end-customer and much more.
Our technology ecosystem spans 600+ applications, monitoring and incident management across 10,000+ servers, multi-cloud – multi-platform event streaming and microservices architecture, and enterprise-grade systems that power a catalog of over 1.4 million products, 330+ distribution centers and a fleet of 14,000 IoT-enabled delivery trucks, and more.
Everything we do at Sysco LABS supports Sysco’s Purpose of ‘Connecting the world to share food and care for one another’, and our technology directly impacts millions of food consumers in a trillion-dollar, global industry.
THE OPPORTUNITY
We are currently on the lookout for an Associate Software Architect to join our team.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Participating in the system specification review process to ensure system requirements can be translated into software design
- Driving teams and ensuring the overall integrity of the software design and validating it against the system architecture
- Actively participating in business value assessment and business requirements elaboration phases
- Actively participating in the design and development phases to ensure the successful delivery of all Sysco Innovations projects
- Monitoring key results and generating metrics across the project portfolio
- Building strong relationships across the Sysco hierarchy and mentoring US and SL-based team members; identifying new opportunities to increase efficiencies and drive growth
REQUIREMENTS
- A Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science from a recognized foreign or local university; a relevant Master’s Degree will be an added qualification
- A minimum of 10 years of work experience with at least 5 years in a senior leadership role
- Polyglot full-stack development and multi-cloud expertise is a must while practical experience in working in AI/ML tech stacks, ETL tools is an added advantage
- Extensive experience in providing solutions for clients with significant customer base while closely working with offshore teams
- Proficiency in architecting and designing secure enterprise software systems and products adhering to industry best practices
- Experience in project estimation techniques, architecture and design patterns and performance engineering
- Excellent leadership and negotiation skills with the ability to clearly propose and articulate architecture and technology decisions
BENEFITS
- US dollar-linked compensation
- Performance-based annual bonus
- Performance rewards and recognition
- Agile Benefits - special allowances for Health, Wellness & Academic purposes
- Paid birthday leave
- Team engagement allowance
- Comprehensive Health & Life Insurance Cover - extendable to parents and in-laws
- Overseas travel opportunities and exposure to client environments
- Hybrid work arrangement
Sysco LABS is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
