Job Description:
Key Responsibilities
Solution Architecture & Technology Strategy
- Define and maintain solution architectures, application landscapes, and technology roadmaps aligned with business and enterprise strategy.
- Act as the primary architectural authority and point of contact for solution design and technical decision-making.
- Design scalable, secure, and supportable solutions across cloud, SaaS, and enterprise platforms.
- Assess technology risks, technical debt, lifecycle requirements, and modernization opportunities.
Solution Delivery & Continuous Improvement
- Partner with business stakeholders to translate requirements into practical and effective technology solutions.
- Support transformational programs and projects from design through deployment and Service Introduction.
- Drive continuous improvement, automation, simplification, and innovation across products and business processes.
- Ensure solution designs support operational excellence, maintainability, and long-term business value.
Integration, Security & Governance
- Define integration approaches, APIs, data flows, and dependencies across enterprise applications and platforms.
- Ensure compliance with enterprise architecture standards, security policies, identity management requirements, and data privacy regulations.
- Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture, Security, Infrastructure, Cloud, and DevOps teams to deliver compliant and resilient solutions.
- Maintain architecture artifacts, including architecture diagrams, standards, roadmaps, and architecture decision records.
Stakeholder & Vendor Management
- Build strong partnerships with business leaders, Product Owners, Project Managers, and technical teams.
- Influence architectural decisions across diverse stakeholder groups and drive alignment toward common outcomes.
- Manage architectural aspects of vendor-delivered solutions and ensure adherence to agreed standards and quality expectations.
- Participate in Communities of Practice and contribute to architecture best practices and technology standards.
Key Stakeholders
- Business Leaders
- Product Owners
- Project Managers
- DevOps Teams
- Infrastructure Teams
- Security & Enterprise Architecture Teams
- External Vendors and Service Providers
- Global Support Organizations
Qualifications
Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field.
- Strong IT background with experience in Solution Architecture, Application Development, or Enterprise Applications.
- Experience designing and delivering enterprise-scale solutions across multiple technologies and business functions.
- Strong stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills.
- Experience working within Agile, DevOps, and project delivery environments.
- Fluent English (written and verbal).
Preferred
- Knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF).
- Experience with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP), SaaS solutions, APIs, and integration patterns.
- Understanding of cybersecurity, identity management, and regulatory compliance requirements.
- ITIL, Agile, Scrum, DevOps, PMI/PMP experience.
Key Functional Competencies
- Solution Architecture & Design
- Enterprise Application Architecture
- Technology Roadmap Planning
- Systems Integration & Data Flows
- Stakeholder Relationship Management
- Supplier & Vendor Management
- Agile & DevOps Ways of Working
- Security, Risk & Compliance Management
- Continuous Improvement & Innovation
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field.
- Strong IT background with experience in Solution Architecture, Application Development, or Enterprise Applications.
- Experience designing and delivering enterprise-scale solutions across multiple technologies and business functions.
- Strong stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills.
- Experience working within Agile, DevOps, and project delivery environments.
- Fluent English (written and verbal).
- Knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF).
- Experience with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP), SaaS solutions, APIs, and integration patterns.
- Understanding of cybersecurity, identity management, and regulatory compliance requirements.
- ITIL, Agile, Scrum, DevOps, PMI/PMP experience.
Mars Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Mars and has not been reviewed or approved by Mars.
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Healthcare Strength — The benefits package is positioned as comprehensive, with broad medical coverage and additional protections like life insurance and short- and long-term disability. Mental health support is emphasized, including free mental health services and wellbeing programming under initiatives such as Mars Be Well.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave is highlighted as market-leading in the U.S., with an example of 18 weeks fully paid for both parents. Additional family-related leave types such as sick time for caregiving and bereavement leave are also described as part of the overall package.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings are described as strong, including 401(k) matching (with a 6% match cited) and pension plans in some cases. The broader package also references retirement savings options and contributions aligned to local market practice, supporting long-term financial security.
Mars Insights
What We Do
For more than a century, Mars, Incorporated has been driven by the belief that the world we want tomorrow starts with how we do business today. This idea is at the center of who we have always been as a global, family-owned business. Today, Mars is transforming, innovating and evolving in ways that affirm our commitment to making a positive impact on the world around us. Across our diverse and expanding portfolio of confectionery, food, and petcare products and services, we employ 133,000 dedicated Associates who are all moving in the same direction: forward. With $40 billion in annual sales, we produce some of the world’s best-loved brands including DOVE®, EXTRA®, M&M’s®, MILKY WAY®, SNICKERS®, TWIX®, ORBIT®, PEDIGREE®, ROYAL CANIN®, SKITTLES®, WHISKAS®, COCOAVIA®, and 5™; and take care of half of the world’s pets through our pet health services AniCura, Banfield Pet Hospitals™, BluePearl®, Linnaeus, Pet Partners™, and VCA™. We know we can only be truly successful if our partners and the communities in which we operate prosper as well. The Mars Five Principles – Quality, Responsibility, Mutuality, Efficiency and Freedom – inspire our Associates to take action every day to help create a world tomorrow in which the planet, its people and pets can thrive.
