Azure Solution Architect

Position Title: Azure Solution Architect
Position Type: Regular - Full-Time
Position Location: Florenceville GTC
Requisition ID: 34468
At McCain, our Digital Technology team is dedicated to leveraging technology and data to drive profitable growth, enhance customer experience, and further our purpose of 'Celebrating real connections through delicious, planet-friendly food.' We have embarked on an ambitious digital transformation journey that spans our entire business, from Agriculture to Manufacturing, all with a focus on deepening our customer obsession.
As part of this transformation, we are making substantial investments in digital platforms, technology advancements, and fostering a data-driven culture. Our goal is to develop digital products that serve our customers, suppliers/growers, and McCain team members, enabling digital processes and data-driven automation. Through these investments, we aim to transform McCain into a company that empowers its teams with intuitive systems designed to enhance collaboration, productivity, and informed decision-making.
Are you ready to be part of this exciting journey? Join us and help shape the future of McCain through innovative technology solutions.
Leadership Principles.
Our principles, each with related practices, guide our actions across the organization. Together, they address how McCain interacts with our customers and employees, and how we work as individuals and collectively to find success. While each role adheres to the Leadership Principles, individual roles may focus more on a specific principle or principles.
We are customer obsessed. Customers are our starting point. By understanding their needs and leveraging data and consumer insights, we drive mutual success.
We think big and plan ahead. Through ambition, curiosity, and smart risks, we can accomplish goals, refine processes, and innovate to scale success.
We bring out the best in our people. We create safe spaces for our people so that trust and empowerment come naturally. Inclusion is about listening first, showing humility, and working together.
We act like owners. Together, we clear obstacles and do the work that makes us all successful and proud to be part of McCain.
JOB PURPOSE:
The primary focus for this role is to architect Azure-based Data and Analytics solutions that will be part of the foundation of digital & technology agenda. The Azure Solutions Architect will be directly involved in all aspects of the solution lifecycle including the architecture, design, development, delivery, and support of analytics solutions built on our Microsoft Azure cloud environment.
This role will work in collaboration with Infrastructure Architects, Data Architects, Data Engineers, Data Scientist, BI Developers & Administrators, and Data Analysts to identify, deploy, and configure a variety of Azure-based tools and resources with the McCain Cloud landscape.
Reporting to the Director, Global Data Services and Platforms, this position will be focused on cloud solutions design, implementation, deployment, and support of the Enterprise Data Platform.
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Advising stakeholders and translating business requirements into designs for secure, scalable, and reliable Azure-based solutions.
• Using your experience and knowledge of Microsoft Azure analyze new or existing requirements to understand impact on applications, storage, connectivity, performance, and cost.
• Develop & maintain platform road maps for the Cloud-based products supporting the Data & Analytics solutions. This will require working collaboratively with multiple teams within the Global Technology organization, as well as vendors and third-party service providers.
• Participate in the development of our future state architecture for the Data and Analytics platforms.
• Manage the Azure Synapse environments ensuring stability, good performance, and proper security controls.
• Deploy and modify Azure resources using Terraform scripting.
• Monitor cost of storage, compute, and general utilization of the Azure data platform.
• Use Azure DevOps for deployments into QA and Production environments.
• Manage user access to all cloud resources deployed for Data and Analytics like ADLS, Azure Synapse, Azure Machine Learning, Azure Databricks, and Azure Data factory.
• Create and maintain technical documentation.
• Stay current on industry technologies, trends, and best practices
• Communicate effectively both verbally and written with Technology project teams, IS staff, and Management

MEASURES OF SUCCESS:
Technical, Solution Architecture and Design Skills for the following:

• Cloud Data warehousing on Microsoft Azure (preferable Synapse Analytics and Databricks).
• Azure Development and DevOps processes
• Implement and monitor Azure infrastructure (Storage accounts, VMs, VNets, Ads, AKS, etc)
• Manage workloads in Azure
• Role Based Access Controls for Azure resources
• Implement and configure Key Vault and Manage Identities
• Implement and configure SQL pools, SQL Databases, and DB Schemas
• Terraform scripting to deploy infrastructure as code (IaC)
• Database optimization techniques and best practices

KEY QUALIFICATION & EXPERIENCES:

• University degree in Computer Science (or related field of study) or equivalent work experience
• Minimum 5 years of experience as a SolutionsArchitect with an emphasis on supporting complex environments
• Proven experience deploying and managing Azure Synapse environments.
• Advanced experience and knowledge of IT operations, including networking, virtualization, identity, security, business continuity, disaster recovery, data platforms, and governance.
• Hands-on experience with complex enterprise systems, networks and technologies
• Accountable to ensure solutions are stable, scalable, capable of providing consistently acceptable performance and reliability
• A track record of implementing and maintaining best practices and standards
• Ability to assess new initiatives to determine work effort and estimate time-to-completion
• Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect Expert will be desirable.
• Azure Databricks Platform Architect certification is desirable.

Key Competencies:

• Drives Results, Collaboration, Customer focus

Compensation Package : $102,700.00 - $137,000.00 CAD annually + bonus eligibility
The above reflects the target compensation range for the position at the time of posting. Hiring compensation will be determined based on experience, skill set, education/training, and other organizational needs.
Benefits : At McCain, we're on a mission to create a winning culture that puts employee safety and wellbeing at the heart of what we do, every day. We understand and appreciate that each person's needs are unique and ensure our benefits & wellbeing programs reflect that. Employees are eligible for the following benefits: health coverage (medical, dental, vision, prescription drug), retirement savings benefits, and leave support including medical, family and bereavement. Wellbeing programs include vacation and holidays, company-supported volunteering time, and mental health resources. Coverages are aligned to country, provincial and state governing plans and can vary by work level, location and nature of the role. Additional benefit details available during the application process.
Your well-being matters to us, and we're here to provide you with the necessary resources to support you in being your best self at work - and at home.
McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. We see value in ensuring we have a diverse, antiracist, inclusive, merit-based, and equitable workplace. As a global family-owned company we are proud to reflect the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that diversity drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger.
McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.
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Job Family: Information Technology
Division: Global Digital Technology
Department: Global Data Service and Platforms
Location(s): CA - Canada : New Brunswick : Florenceville-Bristol
Company: McCain Foods (Canada)