About IT in Nestlé

We are a team of IT professionals from diverse cultures, genders and age groups in the world’s largest food and beverage company. We innovate every day through forward-looking technologies to create opportunities for Nestlé’s digital challenges with our consumers, customers and employees.

We have exciting positions in our new Nestlé global services operations based in Bangalore, which works alongside our Regional IT Hub in Sydney and Global IT hubs to provide technology services. This set up will design, implement and maintain IT solutions and sharpen Nestlé’s focus in the growing areas of digital, analytics and innovation to support changing customer, consumer and shopper focus.

When you join our IT team, you’ll have the opportunity to collaborate across local and global Nestlé teams and external partners to deliver innovative technologies that create tangible business value and contribute proactively to our sustainability goals. Our diversity brings fresh and innovative thinking to how we approach new and existing challenges while embracing different cultures, genders, sexual orientation, abilities and flexible ways of working.

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Position Summary

Joining Nestlé means you are joining the largest food and beverage company in the world.  At our very core, we are a human environment – passionate people driven by the purpose of enhancing the quality of life and contributing to a healthier future. 

To strengthen our Global IT Hub in Bangalore, we are looking for an IT Data Architect/Engineer within our Data Analytics Products and Services (DAPS) product group for Supply Chain.  In this position, you will engage closely with IT, portfolio management and the Supply Chain functions.  You will work with internal & external development teams and the business to design and develop high-performing analytics products at scale, enabling our business stakeholders and receivers to create solutions that enhance our data-driven capabilities. 

A day in the life of IT DAPS Snr Data Architect/Engineer

Reporting to Global  IT Product Manager  Data and Analytics Supply Chain

• Engage with Product Managers, Product Owners, Business Analysts , Data Engineers and Architects of IT and ADI Streams for understanding the data and analytics needs.

• Partner with IT Supply Chain Stream and Corporate Function, Zone and markets to understand, analyse, and translate pain points or opportunities.

• Work with external partners, to design and develop data and analytics products that deliver business value as efficiently as possible. Ensure data products delivered for the organization comply with Industry standards and are scalable and performant, using a range of On-premises and Cloud toolsets, including SAPBW with HANA and the  new generation analytics platforms such as Azure, Snowflake and Power BI.
• You will design and develop data and analytics products to support both standard reporting and more advanced analytics and machine learning use cases.
• You may work as the lead solution architect, collaborating with Data Engineers and Data Scientists. 
• Define data requirements, data flows, and data integration strategies to ensure seamless data access and usage across systems.
• Experience using waterfall and agile development methodologies.
• continuously improving data flows, queries and processes for optimal performance and data quality
• Design and implement data security measures to safeguard sensitive information within Data Products.
• Ensure data products comply with data governance policies, data privacy regulations, and industry best practices.
• Maintain comprehensive documentation of Data Product designs, data models and architecture patterns.
• Communicate technical concepts and solutions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders effectively.
• Stay updated with latest data technologies, tools, trends and identify opportunities for innovation and improvement in Data Product development processes.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to internal and external Data Engineering teams, fostering a culture of excellence and continuous improvement.
• Support Product Owners, Product Managers and Product Group Managers through the full product lifecycle from new product initiation through to product retirement.

What will make you successful

• ​​​​​​ Bachelors or master’s degree in computer science, engineering, math’s, finance, statistics, or related discipline. 
• Most likely you will come from a data engineering  background, with 10+ years’ experience spanning between building data assets and pipelines and as a Data architect or similar role to serve analytics use cases. 
• Whilst capable of performing hands-on development, you are keen to progress to leading and coaching others.   You are keen to drive the work of development teams to be able to create solutions at scale.
• You have a track record of delivering analytics products at scale using SAP-BW and newer-generation data warehousing platforms specifically Snowflake and Azure Services.  Ideally you have experience of using modern front-end analytics tools such as Power BI and SAP SAC.
• Strong expertise in data modelling techniques, data integration and data architecture patterns.
• Strong expertise in database technologies, data warehousing and ETL processes.
• In-depth knowledge of data management best practices, data governance and data security.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment managing multiple projects simultaneously.
• Strong experience with effective communication at different levels in the organization and in English.
• An appreciation for data democratization and the F.A.I.R data principles.
• Be autonomous and proactive in proposing action plans, establishing relationships, and engaging with different areas of the IT organization and the business.
• Demonstrated experience in establishing standard processes and managing performance to achieve key metrics
• Experience explaining technical concepts and technologies
• Experience working in a global environment and with virtual teams
• Effective communication and presentation skills are vital as you develop working partnerships with internal and external stakeholders, such as service integrators, service provides and vendors across the globe (face-to-face and remote)
• With stakeholders based in various time zones, flexibility is essential as you participate in teleconferences and activities outside of standard business hours.

About Nestlé

Nestlé enjoys a reputation as the world’s largest food and beverage company driven by our purpose - enhancing quality of life everyone, today and for generations to come. At Nestlé, we constantly explore and push the boundaries of what is possible with foods, beverages, and nutritional health solutions to enhance quality of life and contribute to a healthier future to better support individuals, families, communities and the planet. We have more than 2000 brands ranging from global icons to local favourites and are present in 190 countries worldwide.