Job Title: Expert / Sr. Expert Solution Architecture
Relocation Assistance Offered Within Country
# 162059 - Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Who We Are
Colgate-Palmolive Company is a caring, innovative growth company that is reimagining a healthier future for all people, their pets and our planet. Focused on Oral Care, Personal Care, Home Care and Pet Nutrition, we sell our products in more than 200 countries and territories under brands such as Colgate, Palmolive, elmex, hello, meridol, Sorriso, Tom’s of Maine, EltaMD, Filorga, Irish Spring, PCA SKIN, Protex, Sanex, Softsoap, Speed Stick, Ajax, Axion, Fabuloso, Soupline and Suavitel, as well as Hill’s Pet Nutrition.
We are recognized for our leadership and innovation in promoting sustainability and community wellbeing, including our achievements in decreasing plastic waste and promoting recyclability, saving water, conserving natural resources and improving children’s oral health.
If you want to work for a company that lives by their values, then give your career a reason to smile and join our global team!
About Colgate-Palmolive
Do you want to be part of a team that is building a future to smile about? What about having the opportunity to connect with others across the world, full of stimulating discussions, and making impactful contributions? If this is how you see your career, Colgate is the place to be!
Our dependable household brands, dedicated employees, and sustainability commitments make us a company passionate about building a future to smile about for our employees, consumers, and surrounding communities. The pride in our brand fuels a workplace that encourages creative thinking, champions experimentation, and promotes authenticity which has contributed to our enduring success.
If you want to work for a company that lives by their values, then give your career a reason to smile...every single day.
The Experience:
In today’s dynamic technology environment, it is an exciting time to be a part of the information technology team at Colgate. Our highly technical and innovative team is dedicated to driving growth for Colgate Palmolive in this constantly evolving landscape.
What role will you play as a member of the Colgate’s Information Technology team?
As a Solution Architect you need to understand the business we support and will be responsible to provide direction to a team of engineers to ensure data needs to meet business demands in various functions.
This position will establish Solution Architecture principles, build models of data that enable the implementation of the business architecture, generate diagrams displaying keydata entities, and produce an inventory of the data needed to realize the architecture vision.
Our teams work on the latest data technologies in the Cloud space including Snowflake, BigQuery, DBT, Apache Airflow, Apache Iceberg, Spark and more. This position will be focused on building out and leading the vision for our external and internal data in our modern cloud data platform.
The candidate should be comfortable in playing a lead role towards the evolution of technology deployments across the global footprint.
Who are you…
You are a Architect -
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Translate business needs into long-term architecture solutions in key data areas for syndicated, point of sale and indirect trade data
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Define, design, and help architect solution and coordinating and communicating with GIT Teams for implementation
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Define, design, and build data models for use by the business
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Evaluate reusability of current data for additional analyses
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Review object and data models and the metadata repository to structure the data for better management and quicker access
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Define how the data is stored, consumed, coordinated and led by different data entities and IT systems.
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Engage with the data management team in best practices for data sourcing, key data elements, data quality management and metadata.
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Engage with the data warehousing team in the migration to cloud warehousing
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Provide data initiatives, evaluations, and mentorship with projects in accordance to our corporate guidelines.
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Build expertise in diverse and emerging technologies and new architectural concepts and principles.
You connect the dots -
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Support day to day business requirements according to global SLA
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Ensure the proper use of information technology project management methodology to comply with governance practices
You are a collaborator -
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Collaborate with business / functional team, develop detailed plans and accurate estimates for completion of build, system testing and implementation of project
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Mentor and coach junior developer resources
You are an innovator -
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Conduct performance tuning to improve system performance over multiple business processes
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Stay updated with the latest technological advancement. Adapt to these changes by self-training and research work and evaluate how / where it can add value to the business
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Build expertise in diverse and emerging technologies and new architectural concepts and principles.
What you’ll need…(Required)
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Bachelor’s or higher degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or a related field.
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5+ years professional experience as a data analyst, Solution Architect, data engineer, or related role developing conceptual, logical, and preliminary physical models for an enterprise
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Experience with programming languages like Python, Java, SQL or Cloud technologies
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Experience working with cloud environments (e.g.- GCP, AWS).
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Experience working with cloud data warehousing (e.g.- Snowflake, BigQuery)
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Strong Communication and Interpersonal Skills
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Willingness to gain training/certification in designated technologies.
What you’ll need…(Preferred):
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Database architecture and data warehousing experience
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Data management experience
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Project management
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Experience with containerization technologies (e.g.- Docker, Kubernetes)
Our Commitment to Sustainability
With the Colgate brand in more homes than any other, we are presented with great opportunities and new challenges as we work to integrate sustainability into all aspects of our business and create positive social impact. We are determined to position ourselves for further growth as we act on our 2025 Sustainability & Social Impact Strategy.
Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Achieving our purpose starts with our people — ensuring our workforce represents the people and communities we serve —and creating an environment where our people feel they belong; where we can be our authentic selves, feel treated with respect and have the support of leadership to impact the business in a meaningful way.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Colgate is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, ethnicity, age, disability, marital status, veteran status (United States positions), or any other characteristic protected by law.
Reasonable accommodation during the application process is available for persons with disabilities. Please contact Application_Accommodation@colpal.com with the subject "Accommodation Request" should you require accommodation.
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