Kraft Heinz Company Looking for Group Lead- IT – Cloud Transformation Engineer at Maharashtra Full Time

The Kraft Heinz Company is one of the largest food and beverage companies in the world, with eight $1 billion+ brands and global sales of approximately $25 billion. We’re a globally trusted producer of high-quality, great-tasting, and nutritious foods for over 150 years. Our brands are truly global, with products produced and marketed in over 40 countries. These beloved products include condiments and sauces, cheese and dairy, meals, meats, refreshment beverages, coffee, infant and nutrition products, and numerous other grocery products in a portfolio of more than 200 legacy and emerging brands.

No matter the brand, we’re united under one vision: To sustainably grow by delighting more consumers globally. Bringing this vision to life is our team of 39,000+ food lovers, creative thinkers, and high performers worldwide. Together, we help provide meals to those in need through our global partnership with Rise Against Hunger. We also stand committed to responsible, sustainable practices that extend to every facet of our business, our consumers, and our communities. Every day, we’re transforming the food industry with bold thinking and unprecedented results. If you share our passion – and are ready to create the future, build a legacy, and lead as a global citizen – there’s only one thing to do: join our table and let’s make life delicious!

Our Culture of Ownership, Meritocracy and Collaboration

We’re not afraid to think differently. Embrace new ideas. Dream big. We empower our people at every level – from entry-level intern to senior leader – to own their work. We share a responsibility to think like Owners – to be mindful of the collective and sustained success of Kraft Heinz – which we apply to every situation, every day.

As part of Kraft Heinz, you’re supported to grow and achieve. You’re expected to bring your authentic self to work every day, to lead with humility, and drive outstanding performance at every level – and you’ll be rewarded. You’re given opportunities to leave a mark and build a legacy. But you won’t do it alone. You’re supported by passionate teammates along the way, and our collective, collaborative spirit fuels our incredible progress.

General information

All posting locations: , Maharashtra, India

Job Function: 04 – IT

Department: 04 – 02 – Application Development & Support

Date Published: 28-Feb-2022

Job Type: Regular

Description & Requirements

As part of Kraft Heinz enterprise-wide technology transformation- we are transitioning to a cloud-based ecosystem to help us accelerate our speed to value and deliver on our promise to adapt more quickly to the evolving needs of our stakeholders comprising multiple segments.

Looking for a Cloud Transformation lead who is expert in cloud technologies to join forces to help us transform and modernize the Kraft Heinz assets with cloud and platform centric solutions. This role requires a heavy collaboration with several application teams on the asset prioritization- cloud foundation capabilities and several other teams in Kraft Heinz to help deliver on the promise of transformation.

This key role requires active partnership with several IT- Enterprise Architecture and Cloud Center of Excellence- various Modernization teams to help establish the application roadmaps for cloud modernization to meet with the futuristic demands of the Kraft Heinz organization.

The candidate must have hands-on cloud knowledge to help provide guidance to the teams and contribute to Cloud COE through patterns- practices- standards and play/run books and so forth.

The candidate needs to be able to switch gears between hands-on & hands-off approach as needed without getting lost into the details to help drive the transformation. Candidate is expected to exercise independent judgment and decision making on complex issues regarding job duties and related tasks and works under minimal supervision.

The Cloud Transformation Lead reports to the Head of Cloud Engineering and works closely with various stakeholders to plan and lead transformations of applications & IT infrastructure- to drive business outcomes leveraging next-gen IT models and agile- scalable architectures that meet the need of today’s corporate and digital applications.

Primary Responsibilities

As a Cloud Transformation lead- you will work directly with stakeholders from across our portfolios formulating all aspects of solution approaches and development

You will be accountable for and apply proven expertise of application modernization- cloud architecture- intelligent automation and innovation thereby contributing to a high level of Client satisfaction

Your expertise in application design and development- cloud-native development- IoT- data analytics- security- Agile- continuous deployment- automated testing and DevOps will be instrumental in enabling our client to achieve their objectives

You will bring lessons learned and expertise from leading successful custom development of open source-based applications in the cloud

You will represent Kraft Heinz Cloud COE as a thought leader formulating solution approaches and strategies and be the technical expert supporting various transformation initiatives

You will help Kraft Heinz teams to kick-off complex engagements successfully and interject when issues arise during implementation activities

As a senior member of the Technology & Engineering team- you will mentor other members and help in their career aspirations

Qualifications

A total of 12+ years of Information Technology experience with minimally 8 years’ hands on experience in one or more architecture design domains (e.g. solutions architecture- application architecture- design and development)

Experience in working closely with business- technical leads- engineering teams and architecture stakeholders for developing technical roadmaps and architecture framework capabilities for use by other development teams

Hold advanced certifications with at least one cloud service provider

Strong technical presentation skills with the ability to convey complex concepts in an easy-to-understand way

Advanced knowledge and experience in one or more current programming languages (E.g.- C#- Java- JavaScript- Python)

Expertise in Microservices architecture- building Serverless applications

Experience planning and executing large scale projects effort- resources and associated incremental phased approach

Experience establishing legacy modernization and migration roadmaps for large scale applications

Experience with event-driven applications using queues- service bus and other related patterns

Experience implementing solutions that leverages Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Experience working in an end-to-end enterprise DevOps environment leveraging Containerization- Infrastructure and Configuration as a code- Kubernetes- CI/CD pipeline

Knowledge of the Agile methodology

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering- Science- Mathematics or Information/Computer related field

Domain Expertise

3+ years of working experience in Retail & CPG industry

Experiences

Experience in leading and managing cross functional teams

Expertise architecting cloud solutions leveraging one of the public cloud providers (preferred Microsoft Azure)

Individual Skills

Strong leader- collaborator- team player- and individual contributor

Strong communication skills with comfort in speaking with business stakeholders

Strong problem solver with ability to manage and lead the team to push the solution and progress

Mindset & Behaviors

Passion to challenge the status quo and find new solutions and drive out of the box ideas – loves and embraces change

Believes in a non-hierarchical culture of collaboration- transparency- safety- and trust

Not afraid to “roll up sleeves”; seeks to go beyond comfort to learn & pushes teams to do the same

Empowers others to fail- learn- and grow with an experimental mindset to drive innovation

Equal Opportunity Employer–minorities/females/veterans/individuals with disabilities/sexual orientation/gender identity