IT&D Senior Manager, Enterprise Architect
Reckitt
IT
Warsaw, Poland
Posted on Jul 1, 2025
We are Reckitt
Home to the world's best loved and trusted hygiene, health, and nutrition brands. Our purpose defines why we exist: to protect, heal and nurture in the relentless pursuit of a cleaner, healthier world. We are a global team united by this purpose. Join us in our fight to make access to the highest quality hygiene, wellness, and nourishment a right and not a privilege.
Information Technology & Digital
In IT and D, you'll be a force for good, whether you're championing cyber security, defining how we harness the power of technology to improve our business, or working with data to guide the innovation of consumer loved products.
Working globally across functions, you'll own your projects and process from start to finish, with the influence and visibility to achieve what needs to be done. And if you're willing to bring your ideas to the table, you'll get the support and investment to make them happen.
Your potential will never be wasted. You'll get the space and support to take your development to the next level. Every day, there will be opportunities to learn from peers and leaders through working on exciting, varied projects with real impact. And because our work spans so many different businesses, from Research and Product Development to Sales, you'll keep learning exciting new approaches.
Working globally across functions, you'll own your projects and process from start to finish, with the influence and visibility to achieve what needs to be done. And if you're willing to bring your ideas to the table, you'll get the support and investment to make them happen.
Your potential will never be wasted. You'll get the space and support to take your development to the next level. Every day, there will be opportunities to learn from peers and leaders through working on exciting, varied projects with real impact. And because our work spans so many different businesses, from Research and Product Development to Sales, you'll keep learning exciting new approaches.
About the role
We are seeking a Senior Manager, Enterprise Architect, who will play a key role in the development and operating of the Architecture Community of Practice and our modern Architecture Ways of Working, establishing a true “Architecture as a Strategy” culture and mindset. They will drive change activity across the enterprise’s technology and process landscape and will proactively lead the alignment of the IT and Business Strategy.
The role will have a 360-degree view across our technology landscape and will work collaboratively with Product Stream Architects, Product Managers and Engineers to ensure we surface the right data about our architecture that drives better decision making, technology choices and reduces technical debt.
Your responsibilities
- The role will act as a key transformation agent for Reckitt. She/he will be a driving force embedding our new product centric operating model, empowering Product Stream Architects with the tools, artefacts, support network and ways of working to minimise unnecessary architecture handoffs.
- She/he should be highly motivated with excellent analysis, execution, and communication skills.
- In collaboration with Product Stream Architects and peer Enterprise Architects they will model Architecture viewpoints that support the definition and delivery of North Star Architectures.
- Be a core member of the Architecture Community of Practice contributing to the adoption of our Architecture as a Strategy approach and delivery of good governance and standards that enables and accelerates Product delivery, adoption and value extraction.
- Partner with the Global Cyber Security function to ensure that security architecture is embedded into all areas of the Enterprise Architecture Ways of Working.
- Bring an agile mindset to support a modern Architecture approach to solving complex business problems and digital transformation.
The experience we're looking for
- Experience as Architect and subject matter expert within a Technology or Business domain.
- Strong knowledge of the technologies and architectures associated with digitally transformation.
- Pragmatic approach with good understanding of how to manage constraints and conflicting priorities.
- A strong influencer, communicator and storyteller.
- Good understanding of architectural approaches, models and frameworks, such as TOGAF, with a proven track record of producing enterprise level technology artefacts to support business and technology design decisions.
- Strong Technology expertise in Core IT domains or relevant Functional domains.
- Good communication skills, with the ability to make complex technical information simple and accessible for non-technical audiences.
- Experience in the creation, management and driving the adoption of enterprise reference architecture.
- Experience with architecture governance, design authority processes, and overall solution design management processes.
- Experience with modern tools, techniques and technologies in support of enterprise scale digital transformation management.
- Good influencing and storytelling skills.
- Commercially astute.
- Able to deal with ambiguity.
The skills for success
Enterprise Architecture, Product Solution Architecture, Cyber Security Strategy, Cyber Security, Data Privacy, Portfolio Management, Data Governance, Product Compliance, Digital Transformation, Stakeholder Relationship Management, Outstanding Communication, stakeholder engagement.
What we offer
With inclusion at the heart of everything we do, working alongside our four global Employee Resource Groups, we support our people at every step of their career journey, helping them to succeed in their own individual way. We invest in the wellbeing of our people through parental benefits, an Employee Assistance Program to promote mental health, and life insurance for all employees globally. We have a range of other benefits in line with the local market. Through our global share plans we offer the opportunity to save and share in Reckitt's potential future successes. For eligible roles, we also offer short-term incentives to recognise, appreciate and reward your work for delivering outstanding results. You will be rewarded in line with Reckitt's pay for performance philosophy.
Equality
We recognise that in real life, great people don't always 'tick all the boxes'. That's why we hire for potential as well as experience. Even if you don't meet every point on the job description, if this role and our company feels like a good fit for you, we still want to hear from you. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, disability or medical condition; colour, ethnicity, race, citizenship, and national origin; religion, faith; pregnancy, family status and caring responsibilities; sexual orientation; sex, gender identity, gender expression, and transgender identity; protected veteran status; size or any other basis protected by appropriate law.