Director of Architecture & Innovation

Company: Papa John's International , Inc.
Location: Louisville
Posted on: February 23, 2021

Job Description:

THIS IS A CORPORATE POSITION Responsibilities

Provide strategic, organizational, and technical leadership for Papa John's technology platforms, enabling Papa John's to lead the industry in exploring, creating, and supporting highest-quality, "consumer first" experiences in various channels. This role oversees the Enterprise Architecture group that is responsible for aligning the Enterprise Architecture Framework and Strategic Solutions; providing technology governance to ensure architectural and strategic fit of projects and business systems and rationalizing applications in relation to the organization's business requirements. The ideal candidate will possess a passion for technology and team building, with expertise in connecting architectures and automation to business value. You must be able to hold your own in technical discussions, be a subject matter expert, and have strategic influence.

• Contribute to the overall strategy, architecture and process improvements for the Enterprise Service Platform
• Provide leadership and expertise in the development of standards, architectural governance, design patterns and IT practices
• Understand the company's business strategy and defines an information architecture to support that strategy
• Evaluate emerging technologies against business and IT strategic needs
• Lead the Enterprise Platform Engineering team which designs and implements critical platforms
• Provides re-usable componentized assets to facilitate best practices
• Develop Training Programs to spread DevOps capabilities throughout the technology organization
• Define and enforce appropriate standards, procedures, and best practices aligned to DevOps principles
• Create and sustain continued improvement in key areas, e.g. Quality and Security Automation, Release Automation, Application Performance Management, Automated Logging and Instrumentation, Reference Pipelines, Infrastructure-as-Code Adoption, Service Level Management, Resiliency
• Implement values, principles, and habitual actions that keep the organization focused on business outcomes and customer satisfaction
• Mentor, guide, and advocate for staff, creating an atmosphere of trust, integrity, innovation, and collaboration
• Elevate the performance of the team through technical leadership, strategy, and ability to navigate and distill complex processes and architectures
• Build deep and productive relationships with various organizations, e.g. Marketing, Infrastructure, Security, Restaurant Operations, Call Center, etc.
• Must be able to travel up to 50% if not located in Louisville, KY
  
  Qualifications
  
  Education and Experience
  
  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Technology, or Information Systems
  • 8+ years relevant work experience
  • 4+ years of technical leadership experience
  • Experience in managing high-volume, high-availability, multi-site, internet-facing applications for a Fortune 500 organization
    Functional Skills
    
    • Significant experience in creating technology roadmaps, blueprints, reference and solution architectures
    • Significant experience in Agile and DevOps environments
    • Significant experience in continuous integration, continuous delivery, continuous testing, and other DevOps-related tools and practices
    • Knowledge of industry best practices and patterns for User Experience (UX), Analytics, Integration
      
      Overview
      
      Exciting things are happening at Papa John's, where the best ingredient is YOU!
      
      Order up a rewarding career with Papa John's! As an international company, we're building a team of people who love challenging work, have strong entrepreneurial skills and share our philosophy for success. We are hiring data-driven individuals who are excited to join a global brand focused on e-commerce and 100% cloud technology. Papa John's offers professional development opportunities, a competitive salary and a collaborative team environment.
      
      Papa John's has more than 5,300 locations in nearly 50 countries and territories around the world. Driven to be the best. Better Ingredients. Better People.-- Apply

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