Enterprise Architect, Cloud & Digital Platforms

Florida Crystals is a leading domestic sugar producer and North America’s first fully integrated cane sugar company, guiding our sugar from farm to table. We are America’s first and only producer of certified organic sugar, grown and harvested in the United States. Our renewable‑energy facility is the largest of its kind in North America and powers our sugar operations, reducing our use of fossil fuels.

Florida Crystals also sustainably farms rice, sweet corn and other vegetables in rotation with our sugarcane. Our rice mill is the only rice mill in Florida.

An experienced Enterprise Architect with specialization in cloud, data centers, cross‑IT disciplines, and artificial intelligence (AI). The Enterprise Architect plays a crucial role in shaping our future technology landscape and driving our digital transformation initiatives. With expertise in cloud computing, data center infrastructure, AI technologies, and enterprise‑wide presence, the position is instrumental in making strategic decisions and ensuring optimal utilization of resources.

The role is actively involved in all IT disciplines, including databases, development, monitoring tools, hardware and software, networks, and security.

• Serve as advisor to functional, technical, and tower leaders on business, information, infrastructure, and cloud platform technology strategies.
• Partner with IT leaders and other architects to align on roadmaps to enable strategic capabilities for cloud and digital platform.
• Understand technology product and vendor strategies, products, and roadmaps.
• Hold decision rights on cloud and platform roadmaps for technology areas working with stakeholders.
• Define future‑state architecture vision and develop target architecture roadmaps.
• Ensure technology investments are fully aligned to deliver maximum value.
• Ensure adherence to architecture references, architecture principles, and standards for efficient deployments and operations during project definition and implementation.
• Develop the cloud, platform, HA, SW, Desktop current & future state architecture.
• Lead innovation initiatives that are strategic to the organization.
• Evaluate and employ emerging technologies and industry trends to provide a competitive edge.
• Provide architectural review in the demand management process.
• Ensure project conformance and compliance with architecture definition and guidelines, and serve as an advisory member on blueprint sessions.
• Identify and mitigate architectural risks that would negatively impact our business/IT strategy and IT landscape.
• Update and maintain the key architecture deliverables.
• Actively engage in architecture and user group communities.

• 10+ years of experience in relevant IT functions.
• Develop and maintain the organization’s enterprise architecture.
• Develop and articulate the technology vision, strategy, and roadmap for the organization, leveraging the rest of IT disciplines.
• Drive IT functions to innovate through resource utilization of technologies such as databases, development tools, hardware and software, networks, security, and emerging technologies.
• Experience with DBMSs, operating systems, data structures, networks, security, IT business resumption, server and storage management, and data center monitoring and optimization.
• Work with IT functions and solutions owners to understand needs and future directions influencing the company technology ecosystem.
• Stay up‑to‑date on the latest technologies and trends.
• Communicate with both technical and non‑technical audiences.
• Lead implementations of AI initiatives and identify opportunities to leverage AI technologies to improve business processes, enhance customer experiences, and drive innovation.
• Collaborate with data scientists, engineers, and business stakeholders to develop and deploy AI solutions effectively.
• Evaluate new technologies and assess their potential impact on the organization, making informed recommendations on adopting new technologies to drive innovation and maintain a competitive edge.
• Proven experience as an Enterprise Architect, with a focus on cloud, data centers, and AI across all IT disciplines.
• Strong…