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CHEP helps move more goods to more people, in more places than any other organization on earth via our 347 million pallets, crates and containers. We employ approximately 13,000 people and operate in 60 countries. Through our pioneering and sustainable share-and-reuse business model, the world's biggest brands trust us to help them transport their goods more efficiently, safely and with less environmental impact.

What does that mean for you? You'll join an international organization big enough to take you anywhere, and small enough to get you there sooner. You'll help change how goods get to market and contribute to global sustainability. You'll be empowered to bring your authentic self to work and be surrounded by diverse and driven professionals. And you can maximize your work-life balance and flexibility through our Hybrid Work Model .

We're looking for a strategic leader who sees the big picture and can translate complex requirements into a connected, forward-looking architectural vision.

You'll be part of a dynamic environment where adaptability, proactive problem-solving and outcome-driven thinking are key. Your ability to build strong networks internally and externally will help shape a resilient and inclusive architecture that supports our evolving business needs.

You'll be responsible for overseeing the enterprise-wide technology strategy. This role focuses on aligning technology solutions with business objectives. You'll lead a team of dedicated Enterprise architects and specialists, ensuring adherence to architectural standards and best practices. You'll collaborate closely with Product and Platform leaders and architects, providing guidance on solution design and integration. You'll also develop and maintain the Architecture Repository as a central capability for Brambles globally.

Key Responsibilities May Include:

• Lead the Enterprise Architecture team, guiding them in setting technology policies, standards, and governance practices across the organization, ensuring compliance with lifecycle and asset management standards.
• Develop and maintain the business, technical, application, information, process, and infrastructure views of the organization's architecture to ensure cohesive and efficient operations.
• Ensure the technology strategy is aligned with the organization's business strategy and incorporates current technology and market trends to drive future growth.
• Partner with key business and technology stakeholders to provide a clear architectural roadmap, ensuring integration between IT and business goals while meeting organizational expectations.
• Communicate the enterprise architecture strategy and associated roadmaps to impacted stakeholders, ensuring transparency and alignment across departments.
• Chair and manage the Technology Review Board (TRB) to drive strategic technology decisions, ensuring that technological advancements align with the organization's strategic objectives.
• Oversee the development and communication of the enterprise architecture strategy, ensuring it supports both current needs and future business demands.
• Continuously monitor and assess emerging technology trends, ensuring that the enterprise architecture evolves to meet both internal and external challenges and opportunities.

Experience

• Enterprise Architecture Expertise: Proven expertise in Enterprise Architecture principles, frameworks, and methodologies. This includes experience in defining and enforcing architectural standards, best practices, and principles across complex organisations.
• Technology Governance and Compliance: Experience in overseeing technology governance processes, policies, and practices. This involves ensuring compliance with technology-related policies, industry regulations, and best practices.
• Solution Design and Integration: Demonstrated proficiency in solution design and integration, particularly in collaborating with Product and Platform teams to align technology solutions with business objectives. This includes experience in leading the design of integrated systems.
• Team Leadership and Management: A track record of leading and managing teams of architects and specialists. This includes direct experience in providing guidance, mentorship, and direction to ensure adherence to architectural standards and best practices.
• DR and Business Continuity Planning: Experience in developing and implementing IT Disaster Recovery (DR) plans, with a focus on the recovery of all business technology products and services. This also involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure effective DR execution.
• Knowledge Management and Repository Development: Background in developing and maintaining enterprise-wide knowledge repositories of technology and tools. This encompasses ensuring accessibility and relevance of knowledge resources for architectural decision-making. Data Architecture and Management: Proficiency in data architecture

design and management, especially for business intelligence, analytics, and data warehousing. This includes experience in ensuring data integrity, availability, and security.
- Technology Selection and Application: Experience in providing advisory support to teams on technology selection and application. This involves overseeing the avoidance of duplication in technology investments and solutions.
- Regional Technology Oversight: Experience in providing oversight of regional technology needs and choices, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture standards. This includes facilitating communication and collaboration between central EA function and regional teams. Policy Development and Compliance: Experience in managing enterprise

processes, policies, and practices for the selection and advancement of technologies. This involves ensuring compliance with technology-related policies and industry best practices.
- Change Management and Transformation: Background in leading organizational change initiatives related to technology and process improvement. This includes fostering a culture of agility, innovation, and continuous improvement.

Skills

• In-depth understanding of Enterprise Architecture principles, frameworks, and methodologies.
• Strong analytical and strategic thinking skills, with the ability to translate business goals into technology initiatives.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills.
• Proficiency in evaluating emerging technologies and industry trends.

Qualifications

Essential:

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Master's degree is a plus.

Desirable:

• Relevant certifications in Enterprise Architecture or related domains (e.g., CoBIT, TOGAF) are highly desirable.

Hybrid Remote

Adaptability, Cross-Functional Work, Data-Driven Decision Making, Digital Literacy, Emotional Intelligence, Feedback, Inclusive Leadership, Innovation, Learn From Mistakes, Mentorship, Motivating Teams, Prioritization, Stakeholder Engagement, Talent Development

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, and we are committed to developing a diverse workforce in which everyone is treated fairly, with respect, and has the opportunity to contribute to business success while realizing his or her potential. This means harnessing the unique skills and experience that each individual brings and we do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state, or local protected class.

Individuals fraudulently misrepresenting themselves as Brambles or CHEP representatives have scheduled interviews and offered fraudulent employment opportunities with the intent to commit identity theft or solicit money. Brambles and CHEP never conduct interviews via online chat or request money as a term of employment. If you have a question as to the legitimacy of an interview or job offer, please contact us

CHEP helps move more goods to more people, in more places than any other organization on earth via our 347 million pallets, crates and containers. We employ approximately 13,000 people and operate in 60 countries. Through our pioneering and sustainable share-and-reuse business model, the world's biggest brands trust us to help them transport their goods more efficiently, safely and with less environmental impact.

What does that mean for you? You'll join an international organization big enough to take you anywhere, and small enough to get you there sooner. You'll help change how goods get to market and contribute to global sustainability. You'll be empowered to bring your authentic self to work and be surrounded by diverse and driven professionals. And you can maximize your work-life balance and flexibility through our Hybrid Work Model.

Job Description

We're looking for a strategic leader who sees the big picture and can translate complex requirements into a connected, forward-looking architectural vision.

You'll be part of a dynamic environment where adaptability, proactive problem-solving and outcome-driven thinking are key. Your ability to build strong networks internally and externally will help shape a resilient and inclusive architecture that supports our evolving business needs.

You'll be responsible for overseeing the enterprise-wide technology strategy. This role focuses on aligning technology solutions with business objectives. You'll lead a team of dedicated Enterprise architects and specialists, ensuring adherence to architectural standards and best practices. You'll collaborate closely with Product and Platform leaders and architects, providing guidance on solution design and integration. You'll also develop and maintain the Architecture Repository as a central capability for Brambles globally.

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Key Responsibilities May Include:

• Lead the Enterprise Architecture team, guiding them in setting technology policies, standards, and governance practices across the organization, ensuring compliance with lifecycle and asset management standards.
• Develop and maintain the business, technical, application, information, process, and infrastructure views of the organization's architecture to ensure cohesive and efficient operations.
• Ensure the technology strategy is aligned with the organization's business strategy and incorporates current technology and market trends to drive future growth.
• Partner with key business and technology stakeholders to provide a clear architectural roadmap, ensuring integration between IT and business goals while meeting organizational expectations.
• Communicate the enterprise architecture strategy and associated roadmaps to impacted stakeholders, ensuring transparency and alignment across departments.
• Chair and manage the Technology Review Board (TRB) to drive strategic technology decisions, ensuring that technological advancements align with the organization's strategic objectives.
• Oversee the development and communication of the enterprise architecture strategy, ensuring it supports both current needs and future business demands.
• Continuously monitor and assess emerging technology trends, ensuring that the enterprise architecture evolves to meet both internal and external challenges and opportunities.

Experience

• Enterprise Architecture Expertise: Proven expertise in Enterprise Architecture principles, frameworks, and methodologies. This includes experience in defining and enforcing architectural standards, best practices, and principles across complex organisations.
• Technology Governance and Compliance: Experience in overseeing technology governance processes, policies, and practices. This involves ensuring compliance with technology-related policies, industry regulations, and best practices.
• Solution Design and Integration: Demonstrated proficiency in solution design and integration, particularly in collaborating with Product and Platform teams to align technology solutions with business objectives. This includes experience in leading the design of integrated systems.
• Team Leadership and Management: A track record of leading and managing teams of architects and specialists. This includes direct experience in providing guidance, mentorship, and direction to ensure adherence to architectural standards and best practices.
• DR and Business Continuity Planning: Experience in developing and implementing IT Disaster Recovery (DR) plans, with a focus on the recovery of all business technology products and services. This also involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure effective DR execution.
• Knowledge Management and Repository Development: Background in developing and maintaining enterprise-wide knowledge repositories of technology and tools. This encompasses ensuring accessibility and relevance of knowledge resources for architectural decision-making. Data Architecture and Management: Proficiency in data architecture
• design and management, especially for business intelligence, analytics, and data warehousing. This includes experience in ensuring data integrity, availability, and security.
• Technology Selection and Application: Experience in providing advisory support to teams on technology selection and application. This involves overseeing the avoidance of duplication in technology investments and solutions.
• Regional Technology Oversight: Experience in providing oversight of regional technology needs and choices, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture standards. This includes facilitating communication and collaboration between central EA function and regional teams. Policy Development and Compliance: Experience in managing enterprise
• processes, policies, and practices for the selection and advancement of technologies. This involves ensuring compliance with technology-related policies and industry best practices.
• Change Management and Transformation: Background in leading organizational change initiatives related to technology and process improvement. This includes fostering a culture of agility, innovation, and continuous improvement.

Skills

• In-depth understanding of Enterprise Architecture principles, frameworks, and methodologies.
• Strong analytical and strategic thinking skills, with the ability to translate business goals into technology initiatives.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills.
• Proficiency in evaluating emerging technologies and industry trends.

Qualifications

Essential:

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Master's degree is a plus.

Desirable:

• Relevant certifications in Enterprise Architecture or related domains (e.g., CoBIT, TOGAF) are highly desirable.

Remote Type

Hybrid Remote

Skills to succeed in the role

Adaptability, Cross-Functional Work, Data-Driven Decision Making, Digital Literacy, Emotional Intelligence, Feedback, Inclusive Leadership, Innovation, Learn From Mistakes, Mentorship, Motivating Teams, Prioritization, Stakeholder Engagement, Talent Development

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, and we are committed to developing a diverse workforce in which everyone is treated fairly, with respect, and has the opportunity to contribute to business success while realizing his or her potential. This means harnessing the unique skills and experience that each individual brings and we do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state, or local protected class.

Individuals fraudulently misrepresenting themselves as Brambles or CHEP representatives have scheduled interviews and offered fraudulent employment opportunities with the intent to commit identity theft or solicit money. Brambles and CHEP never conduct interviews via online chat or request money as a term of employment. If you have a question as to the legitimacy of an interview or job offer, please contact us

• Design, develop, and deploy scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant cloud solutions on platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Architect and implement cloud-native applications, microservices, and containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Define and enforce cloud infrastructure best practices, security standards, and cost management strategies.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and deployment processes using tools like Terraform, Ansible, or Chef.
• Collaborate with development teams to ensure applications are designed for the cloud and adhere to architectural guidelines.
• Monitor system performance, identify bottlenecks, and implement solutions for optimization.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for seamless software delivery.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex infrastructure and application issues.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior engineers.
• Stay abreast of emerging cloud technologies and industry trends.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in software engineering, with a strong focus on cloud architecture and infrastructure.
• Proven experience designing and implementing solutions on major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Proficiency in infrastructure as code (IaC) tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Strong understanding of containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience with CI/CD tools and practices.
• Proficiency in at least one scripting or programming language (e.g., Python, Go, Java).
• Excellent understanding of networking, security, and database concepts within a cloud environment.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Excellent communication and teamwork abilities.