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:Position Title Lead Technical Architect - IntegrationFunction/GroupDigital and TechnologyLocationMumbaiShift TimingGeneralRole Reports toD&T Manager xe2x80x93 IntegrationRemote/Hybrid/in-OfficeHybridABOUT GENERAL MILLSWe make food the world loves: 100 brands. In 100 countries. Across six continents. With iconic brands like Cheerios, Pillsbury, Betty Crocker, Nature Valley, and Hxc3xa4agen-Dazs, wexe2x80x99ve been serving up food the world loves for 155 years (and counting). Each of our brands has a unique story to tell.How we make our food is as important as the food we make. Our values are baked into our legacy and continue to accelerateus into the future as an innovative force for good. General Mills was founded in 1866 when Cadwallader Washburn boldly bought the largest flour mill west of the Mississippi. That pioneering spirit lives on today through our leadership team who upholds a vision of relentless innovation while being a force for good. For more details check outGeneral Mills India Center (GIC) is our global capability center in Mumbai that works as an extension of our global organization delivering business value, service excellence and growth, while standing for good for our planet and people.With our team of 1800+ professionals, we deliver superior value across the areas of Supply chain (SC) , Digital & Technology (D&T) Innovation, Technology & Quality (ITQ), Consumer and Market Intelligence (CMI), Sales Strategy & Intelligence (SSI) , Global Shared Services (GSS) , Finance Shared Services (FSS) and Human Resources Shared Services (HRSS).For more details check outWe advocate for advancing equity and inclusion to create more equitable workplaces and a better tomorrow.JOB OVERVIEWFunction OverviewThe Digital and Technology team at General Mills stands as the largest and foremost unit, dedicated to exploring the latest trends and innovations in technology while leading the adoption of cutting-edge technologies across the organization. Collaborating closely with global business teams, the focus is on understanding business models and identifying opportunities to leverage technology for increased efficiency and disruption. The team's expertise spans a wide range of areas, including AI/ML, Data Science, IoT, NLP, Cloud, Infrastructure, RPA and Automation, Digital Transformation, Cyber Security, Blockchain, SAP S4 HANA and Enterprise Architecture. The MillsWorks initiative embodies an agile@scale delivery model, where business and technology teams operate cohesively in pods with a unified mission to deliver value for the company. Employees working on significant technology projects are recognized as Digital Transformation change agents.The team places a strong emphasis on service partnerships and employee engagement with a commitment to advancing equity and supporting communities. In fostering an inclusive culture, the team values individuals passionate about learning and growing with technology, exemplified by the "Work with Heart" philosophy, emphasizing results over facetime. Those intrigued by the prospect of contributing to the digital transformation journey of a Fortune 500 company are encouraged to explore more details about the function through the providedPurpose of the role

• Join the Enterprise Integration Technologies team in delivering global world-class Application to Application (A2A) and Business to Business (B2B) application integration solutions.
• The candidate should have In-depth working knowledge / experience on MuleSoft Architecture, Solutioning, administration etc.
• Evaluate, design, and optimize integration services for resilience, high-availability, performance, scale, and cost.
• Lead complex and critical platform efforts while ensuring alignment across GMI Digital & Technology organization.
• Partner with solution delivery and architecture to develop design patterns and templates, share knowledge and experience across solutions aimed at improving resilience, enabling scale, and optimizing costs.
• Collaborate and build relationships cross-functionally to influence and motivate, serving as catalyst for progressive, strategic, and successful change management
• Advise, and support Digital & Technology leadership in shaping technical standards, policies, and guidelines.
• Keep pace with emerging technologies and industry trends to drive innovation and improvement.
• Uphold and enforce security and compliance standards throughout the integration platform.
• Define Architecture Strategy & Guiding Principles in Application Integration across the Enterprise.
• Understand technology trends, innovative solutions, and prototyping.
• Lead POC and Evaluate/Implement new technologies systems/platform.
• Proactively improve key metrics, such as up-time, application performance, time to issue resolution, time spent resolving incidents and other key operational SLAs.
• Candidate should have an experience in working with cloud platforms like (GCP). The individual should know cloud very well & have an experience on various cloud deployments
• The individual should be familiar with the industry standards and should be exploring the new features and road map for the integration tools
• Should be familiar with Infrastructure as a code tools, provisioning tools and cloud monitoring tools usage and administration.
• Individual should be able to partner with the Solution teams and guide them in designing the Application architecture and define the functional and technical specification
• The candidate should be able to work through others in implementing the solutions and guide junior team members to achieve the organizational strategy.

• Lead Technical Architect xe2x80x93 Integration.
• Architecture &/or Tech Lead

• Help on solution design & implementation.
• Help on automations.
• Mentoring other MuleSoft developers.
• Helps other developers in troubleshooting and resolving issues.
• Code reviews.
• Help setting up repositories, ci/cd etc.
• Ensuring all policies and procedures have been followed by developers.
• Help setting up Integration best practices, standardization, templated, process across.
• Owning accountability across solutions.
• Development Solutions

• Deliver high quality bug free secure code.
• Creating &/Implementing Solution design documents.
• Writing unit tests.
• Work on deployments etc.
• Platform Architecture & consultation

• Help towards maturing platform, and provide continuous feedback for improvisations, optimizations, governance, security etc.
• Help in managing and automating MuleSoft AnyPoint Platform configurations, including API management, security, deployments, monitoring & governance etc.
• Help in setting tup RTF DR cluster.
• Help in setup and support highly available Integration Platform Infrastructure (IaaS/PaaS).
• Help in automating LastMile Security Certificate Management processes.
• Ensure high availability and fault tolerance of MuleSoft applications through proper configurations and failover strategies.

• Translation of strategy and architecture into a highly available and secure technical implementation, in accordance with best practices
• Continuous support and collaboration with other data engineers, developers, data and analytics teams and projects.
• Setting up Monitoring dashboard and implement observability in all our owned services.
• Design and implement Disaster Recovery strategies for owned tech stacks.
• Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements by automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery for greater scalability, etc.
• Work with stakeholders including the Product, Developers, Data & Analytics teams and support their infrastructure needs.
• Comply with audit and other reporting requirements.
• Lead cultural change for adoption of new technologies.
• Individual should be able to partner with the Solution teams and guide them in designing the Application architecture and define the functional and technical specification
• Collect and share knowledge with stakeholders on tool standards and best practices through various sources including our internal virtual training site.
• Define and ensure the governance of standards, best practices and processes on Enterprise Integration applications.
• Guide team members & provide help to cross team members.

• Guide team members by providing valuable inputs & also by making them understand the need of change
• Act as a subject matter expert to solve critical issue & document the same
• Work on innovation and automation to reduce mundane work
• Innovation, Automation and continuous next. Continuous Improvement of team processes.
• Create new rituals, best practices to implement various cloud strategies.
• Monitoring Industry Trends and finding the ways to adopt the same to the organization.
• Provide technical leadership for MuleSoft solutioning & Platform maturity.
• Guide team members & provide help to cross team members.
• Guide team members by providing valuable inputs & also by making them understand the need of change.
• Act as a subject matter expert to solve critical issue & document the same.

• Education xe2x80x93 Full time graduation from an accredited university (Mandatory- Note: This is the minimum education criteria which cannot be altered)
• 5+ years of relevant experience of working as a Solution Architect/Technology Architect/Enterprise Architect in large enterprise/fortune 500 company.
• A minimum of 4 years of hands-on experience with MuleSoft.
• At least 3 years of practical experience with Java or C# (object-oriented programming languages).
• A minimum of 1 year of experience working with databases.
• Expertise in integration architecture and design, with a strong understanding of best practices and industry standards.
• Strong Experience with Runtime Fabric and Hybrid Deployment Model
• Expertise in Deployment strategies, Mule Clustering, Mule Gateway, MUnit MuleSoft MMC.
• Experience troubleshooting/Managing Runtime Servers, experience on Mule Connectors (Standard/Custom).
• Provide technical consultation on MuleSoft platform best practices, security, and governance.
• Should have considerable knowledge of API development using Mule Platform.
• Understanding of core network technologies and monitoring tools
• Experience with microservices architecture and multi-cloud environments a plus.
• Familiarity with SAP and data & analytics platforms a plus
• Proven ability to drive strategic initiatives and align technology goals with business objectives.
• Experience working in enterprise-grade technology environments.
• Strong expertise in troubleshooting and debugging complex issues.
• Proven hands-on experience with MuleSoft integration platform.
• Experience with event-driven microservice architecture.
• Exp with integration design patterns.
• Experience in automation, standardization and best practices.
• Familiarity with CICD, Cloud Hub/RTF.
• Experience working directly with technical and business teams.
• Experience with low level technical design and requirement gathering
• Good at communication
• Proven skills in Java/JSON/JQuery
• Version control tools.
• Phython &/Or any other shell scripting.
• GCP Experience

• Familiarity with Kafka, BigQuery, and Google Pub/Sub
• MuleSoft Architecture / Development Certification.
• Strong aptitude to learn and passion for problem solving.
• Excellent communication skills in coordinating with different stakeholders.

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