General Mills Looking for Solution Architect – MillsWorks DnA at Mumbai, Maharashtra Full Time

India is among the top ten priority markets for General Mills, and hosts our Global Shared Services Centre. This is the Global Shared Services arm of General Mills Inc., which supports its operations worldwide. With over 1,300 employees in Mumbai, the center has capabilities in the areas of Supply Chain, Finance, HR, Digital and Technology, Sales Capabilities, Consumer Insights, ITQ (R&D & Quality), and Enterprise Business Services. Learning and capacity-building is a key ingredient of our success.

Job Description:
Shift Timings: Regular

About General Mills

We make food the world loves: 100 brands. In 100 countries. Across six continents. With iconic brands like Cheerios, Pillsbury, Betty Crocker, Nature Valley, and Häagen-Dazs, we’ve been serving up food the world loves for 155 years (and counting). Each of our brands has a unique story to tell.

How we make our food is as important as the food we make. Our values are baked into our legacy and continue to accelerate us into the future as an innovative force for good. General Mills was founded in 1866 when Cadwallader Washburn boldly bought the largest flour mill west of the Mississippi. That pioneering spirit lives on today through our leadership team who upholds a vision of relentless innovation while being a force for good. The awards and recognition we’ve received showcase our commitment to be a force for good:

• World’s Most Admired Companies, Fortune 2022
• America’s Most Responsible Companies, Newsweek 2022
• 100 Best Corporate Citizens, 3BL 2021
• Best Places to Work for LGBTQ Equality, Human Rights Campaign 2022
• 100 Best Companies, Seramount 2021
• Diversity Best Practices Leading Inclusion Index, Seramount 2021
• Best Companies for Dads, Seramount 2021
• Best Companies for Multicultural Women, Seramount 2021
• Top 10 Companies for Executive Women, Seramount 2021
• Military Friendly Employer Bronze, VIQTORY 2021
• Best Place to Work, Canada, Greater Toronto, 2021
• Top 50 – India’s Best Workplaces for Women, 2021
• Top Workplaces in Brazil, 2021
• Asia’s Best Workplaces, 2021

Hungry for What’s Next

We exist to make food the world loves, and it shows. Our passion for people, doing good and creating delicious food has energized us for over 150 years. Breaking away from the pack is how we win, so we need your unique perspectives: your quirks, ‘crazy’ ideas, rigor and insatiable curiosity to make it happen. We want people who constantly experiment, embracing the new and bold, who keep pushing to turn ideas into reality, no matter how big or small. We’ve learned becoming the undisputed leader in food means continuously reshaping, reimagining and rebuilding— that only happens when you surround yourself with those who are hungry for what’s next.

For more details check out www.generalmills.com

General Mills India Centre

General Mills India Center (GIC) operates out of Mumbai and supports the global operations of General Mills. The center was established in 2005 and has grown in strength. Today, we are a vibrant and diverse team of over 1500 employees that come together to champion business services for the various global entities of General Mills in the areas of Business Operations, Analytics Consulting, Logistics, Finance, IT Development & Technology Consulting, Consumer & Market Intelligence, Sales Capabilities, Research & Development.

Digital and Technology team

Digital and Technology is the largest team in GIC, which focuses on understanding the latest and innovative trends in technology and leading the adoption of cutting-edge technologies at General Mills. The team closely collaborates with global business teams to understand business models and assess where technology can be leveraged to bring efficiency and disruption. Be it AI/ML, Data Science, IoT, NLP, Cloud, Infrastructure, RPA and Automation, Digital Transformation, Cyber Security, Blockchain or Enterprise Architecture, GIC Digital and Technology has something for every technology enthusiast who wants to work here. Our MillsWorks initiative is where we bring agile@scale delivery model to life. Here, business and technology teams work cohesively in pods as ONE team, driven by a singular mission and focused on delivering value for the Company. Our employees, who work on large technology projects of strategic importance, are the Digital Transformation change agents.

Our service partnerships and employee engagement are cantered on advancing equity and strengthening communities. We believe in an inclusive culture and trust in the power of people who have a passion for learning and growing with technology. We believe in “Work with Heart”. Work with Heart is focused on results, not facetime. If you are passionate about the latest in technology and want to make an impact on the digital transformation journey of a Fortune 500 company, we’re waiting for you.

Job Overview

Role: Solution Architect- MillsWorks DnA

Location: Mumbai

This Solutions Architect will be a critical role in the Connected Commerce Product teams specifically for SCANRS expansion for General Mills D&T (Digital and Technology) organization and will act as an advisor to leadership to develop overall integration architecture strategy and vision for highly complex business and technical needs across multiple business units. This role will partner closely with the platform teams, engineering and domain leads to ensure a performant and resilient integration architecture. Additionally, the Solutions Architect will work closely with Product Owners to determine their goals and outcomes, eliciting and analysing requirements and creating tech strategy and architecture to enable both current as well as future needs. It is an individual contributor role with strong accountability of the Technical Product.

Role Responsibilities

• Collaboratively develop technology & capability roadmaps for the SCANRS Space
• Ensure technical components of SCANRS initiatives are on track
• Provide leadership and accountability for the delivery of the technical components of a solution
• Match solutions with the requirements of stakeholders and the enterprise standards
• Ensure solution compliance with non-functional requirements (Security, Platform, Integration, Data, Operations, etc.)
• Lead Technical RFP & Prototyping
• Provide Consulting & Mentoring to developers & analysts (Internal and External)
• Leads the development of SCANRS high level systems architecture.
• Create system/application roadmaps – Technical, Sustainability, Support, etc.
• Drive work forward by mentoring direct technical team’s work and contribute directly
• Manage and drive career experiences (keep current with new technologies)
• Hyperaware of external conditions & capabilities (benchmark peers)
• AS REQUESTED:

o Cross-train to allow workload balance across the team

o Play a hands-on engineer role for troubleshooting/critical development

Must – have technical skills and experience

• Bachelor’s Degree required; Computer Science, MIS, or Engineering preferred
• 8 years of data engineering experience
• 3 year of IT Architecture experience
• Excellent programming background using Java, Scala or Python
• Experience with agile techniques and methods
• Experience with DevOps, CI/CD, Cloud and Cyber Security
• Should have good knowledge in data warehouse / data lake technology and business intelligence concepts
• Hands-on experience designing and deploying enterprise solutions
• Proven ability to work with cross functional and global teams
• Proven ability to quickly learn and apply new capabilities in partnership with other Architects
• Strong relationship management and leadership skills
• Effective verbal and written communication and influencing skills
• Comfort with informing, influencing, and presenting to leadership
• Experience coaching others to leverage and adhere to standards in order to produce consistent, repeatable results
• High initiative; self-starter with a learning mindset and eye towards continuous improvement
• A strong sense of accountability, ownership and pride in work performed
• Experience managing or collaborating with third party vendor partners at large scale for successful delivery
• Bachelor’s Degree from Tier 1 institute

Good to have skills

• Familiarity with Data & Analytics concepts and tools
• Familiarity with modern Application Architecture Principles
• Technologies – BigQuery – Google Cloud Platform, ETL
• Agile Scrum master certification
• Understanding of Point of Sale, Syndicated and Consumer Data

Skill proficiency expectations

Expert level

Intermediate Level

Basic Level

• Solution Architecture
• System Design/Solution
• Hands on experience in Databricks, Data Pipeline, Data Ingestion
• Vertex AI and GCP Services
• SQL/ETL
• Agile Methodology
• GCP
• Tableau
• Power BI

Company Overview:
We exist to make food the world loves. But we do more than that. Our company is a place that prioritizes being a force for good, a place to expand learning, explore new perspectives and reimagine new possibilities, every day. We look for people who want to bring their best — bold thinkers with big hearts who challenge one other and grow together. Because becoming the undisputed leader in food means surrounding ourselves with people who are hungry for what’s next.