Global IT Operational Excellence Enterprise Architect

At Avolta (SIX: AVOL), our people are at the driving force behind our success. With a team of over 76,000 individuals representing more than 150 nationalities, we are a truly global company driven by passion, innovation, and excellence.

Born from the combination of Dufry and Autogrill, Avolta is redefining the travel experience through the dedication and expertise of our diverse workforce. Across 73 countries and 1,000 locations, our teams bring energy, creativity, and commitment to delivering world-class travel retail and food & beverage experiences.

We operate across multiple channels - including airports, motorways, cruise ships, ports, railways, and more - offering endless opportunities for collaboration and growth. Our people are empowered to make an impact, supported by a culture that values teamwork, development, and innovation.

Sustainability and social responsibility are embedded in our strategy, ensuring we grow in a way that benefits both our employees and the communities we serve.

Are you looking for a dynamic, international career where your contributions truly matter? Join Avolta and be part of a team that’s shaping the future of travel - together.

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

The Enterprise Architect position, based in Bangalore, is part of Avolta Tech’s Global Enterprise Architecture Office. The role contributes to defining and maintaining the enterprise architecture vision, strategy, and roadmap, ensuring alignment with business objectives, business capabilities, and technology capabilities.

The position supports multiple corporate functions (such as HR, Finance, Digital, and Supply Chain) as well as IT teams in defining target architectures and transition plans to evolve the current landscape toward the desired future state.

Additionally, the Enterprise Architect provides guidance throughout the delivery of new IT solutions, applying a broad understanding across multiple architecture domains—including business, application/solution, technical/infrastructure, and data architecture—to ensure balanced and effective solutions. The role requires strong influence across the organization and the ability to work independently while aligning with the lead enterprise architect and established Enterprise Architecture principles

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Collaborate with stakeholders at various levels, including executives, business units, and IT teams, to understand business needs and ensure architectural alignment.
• Facilitate workshops and presentations to articulate and promote architecture principles, standards, and decisions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Deduct and review architecture artifacts and capabilities, ensuring compliance with established architecture standards and principles.
• Provide guidance to project teams to ensure that project architectures align with the enterprise architecture.
• Contribute to the extending the knowledge repository of the current and future state IT and business landscape, from many perspectives, and in many formats.
• Assisting with capability, technology and service analyses and selection process.
• Drive privacy, security, control and compliancy by design as part of the Enterprise Architecture processes and workshops.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

• Bachelor's degree, master degree desired
• 5+ years of experience in business analysis / enterprise architecture
• Strong understanding of business capabilities, capability models and maturity assessments
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Ability to think strategically and solve complex problems
• Experience with waterfall and agile development methodologies
• Ability to learn new technologies quickly
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
• Architecture Governance and Compliance:
• TOGAF certification desirable
• Experience with LeanIX and maintaining architecture artifacts
• Stakeholder Engagement and Communication
• Risk Assessment and Mitigation
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Passionate about providing unparalleled levels of service and convenience for customers.
• Able to work and learn quickly in a fast paced, fun and dynamic environment.
• Strong, communication, management and influencing skills, verbal and in writing in English.

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