We are looking for a Sr. Strategic Portfolio Architect to be part of our Global Digital Marketing Hub.

Position Snapshot

• Location: Esplugues de Llobregat, Barcelona.
• Type of Contract: Permanent. 
• Type of work: Hybrid.
• Work Language: Fluent Business English.

Position Summary:
The Strategic Portfolio Architect drives the strategic alignment and technical execution of marketing technology solutions across Product Groups and Platforms, ensuring alignment with the overarching Global Marketing Technology Architecture. This senior leadership role balances technological innovation with business imperatives, maintaining a comprehensive view of the Group Marketing organization’s strategy, processes, information, and technology assets.

The Strategic Portfolio Architect ensures that marketing technology solutions deliver simplicity, agility, and measurable impact, providing a cohesive architectural vision that connects diverse technologies to unlock business growth and innovation. S/He is accountable for optimizing the architecture landscape to maximize business value while ensuring security, compliance, and operational scalability.

Partnering with Product Owners, Product Group Managers, and Solution Architects, the Strategic Portfolio Architect translates complex business demands into actionable, value-driven technical strategies. S/He provides thought leadership, sets direction for technology evolution, and drives collaboration with DevOps teams, enterprise architecture, and key suppliers to ensure that solutions deliver both immediate and long-term business outcomes.

Additionally, the Strategic Portfolio Architect leads the design and integration of solutions within Nestlé's platforms, generative AI models, and enterprise data governance frameworks, ensuring adherence to organizational standards and best practices while championing innovation and continuous improvement.

What you’ll do 

• Define and drive the strategic direction of marketing technologies, aligning them with business goals and the Global Marketing Technology Strategy.
• Establish architecture roadmaps that ensure long-term sustainability and adaptability of solutions.
• Oversee the seamless integration of marketing technologies within and across platforms, ensuring interoperability across key domains (Content & Social Media, MarTech/AdTech, Consumer Experience/Websites).
• Define, implement, and enforce integration standards to ensure a cohesive, scalable, and reliable technology ecosystem.
• Set and enforce robust security and compliance frameworks to ensure all marketing technology solutions adhere to organizational standards and industry regulations.
• Ensure architecture aligns with evolving global compliance requirements, safeguarding business continuity and reputation.
• Lead the adoption of emerging technologies, including generative AI and advanced analytics, to drive transformational business impact.
• Champion initiatives to simplify and optimize the marketing technology landscape for agility and effectiveness.
• Establish metrics and frameworks to monitor the performance of implemented solutions, driving data-driven improvements.
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior leadership, Product Owners, and Product Group Managers, providing strategic guidance on architecture and technology evolution.
• Drive cross-functional collaboration to align technology strategies with business priorities, ensuring cohesive decision-making.

We offer you 
We offer more than just a job. We put people first and inspire you to become the best version of yourself.

• Great benefits including competitive salary and a comprehensive social benefits package. We have one of the most competitive pension plans on the market, as well as flexible remuneration with tax advantages: health insurance, restaurant card, mobility plan, etc.
• Personal and professional growth through ongoing training and constant career opportunities reflecting our conviction that people are our most important asset.
• Hybrid working environment with flexible working scheme. Our state-of-the-art campus is dog friendly and equipped with a medical center, canteen and areas to co-create network and chill!
• Recreation activities such as yoga, Zumba, etc. and a wide range of volunteering activities.

Minimum qualifications: 

• Bachelor's degree in business or computer science, systems analysis or a related study, or equivalent experience.
• +5 years of experience in at least two IT solution development disciplines, including technical architecture, network management, application development, middleware, database management or operations.
• Understanding of agile methods and processes, and capability of supporting agile project teams by providing advice and guidance on opportunities, impact and risks, taking account of technical and architectural debt.
• Demonstrate expertise in relevant programming languages, frameworks, and IT infrastructure. 
• Troubleshoot technical issues effectively and implement efficient, scalable solutions. Proactively evaluate and adopt new technologies.
• Ability to understand the long-term ("big picture") and short-term perspectives of situations.
• Effectively communicates in English at different levels in the organisation.
• Experiences working in a global environment and with virtual teams.

About the IT Hub 
At Nestlé IT, we are a diverse, global team of IT professionals in the biggest health, nutrition and wellness company of the world. We strive to create an environment where people are valued for who they are. We innovate every day through future ready technologies to create opportunities for Nestlé to delight consumers, customers and employees alike.  We collaborate with partners around the world to deliver tangible value at global scale. We continuously work to develop our people to be future ready.

About Nestlé 
We are Nestlé, the largest food and beverage company in the world, with a presence in more than 185 countries. With net sales of CHF 94.4 billion in 2022, the company has over 291,000 employees and 418 factories in 85 countries. Our values are based on respect: respect for ourselves, respect for others, respect for diversity, and respect for our future. Nestlé is dedicated to offering high-quality food and beverage products and services that contribute to the nutrition, health, and well-being of people, pets, and the planet. Additionally, it is committed to being a leading company in sustainability and achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Want to learn more? Visit us at: www.nestle.com

We encourage the diversity of applicants across gender, age, ethnicity, nationality, sexual orientation, social background, religion or belief and disability.
Step outside your comfort zone; share your ideas, way of thinking and working to make a difference to the world, every single day. You own a piece of the action – make it count. 

Join Nestlé’s IT Hub #beaforceforgood

How we will proceed:

You send us your CV → We contact relevant applicants → Interviews → Feedback →   Job Offer communication to the Finalist → First working day