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Sysco ranks 55th in the Fortune 500 list and is the global leader in the trillion-dollar foodservice industry.\nSysco operates 333 distribution centers across 10 countries, with 75,000 colleagues serving approximately 670,000 customer locations, including restaurants, healthcare and educational facilities, lodging establishments, entertainment venues and more. For fiscal year 2026, which ended June 27, 2026, the company generated sales of more than $84 billion.\nSysco LABS Sri Lanka delivers the technology that powers Sysco’s end-to-end operations.\nSysco LABS’ enterprise technology is present in the end-to-end foodservice journey, enabling the sourcing of food products, merchandising, storage and warehouse operations, order placement and pricing algorithms, the delivery of food and supplies to Sysco’s global network and the in-restaurant dining experience of the end-customer.\nThe Opportunity:\nWe are currently on the lookout for a Architect - Data Engineering to join our team.\nResponsibilities:\nDomain Architecture Ownership\nServe as the single architectural point of accountability for data, analytics, and AI solutions within the assigned business domain (Supply Chain & Operations, Merchandizing, Pricing, Commercial Technology and Finance).\nDefine and maintain the domain-driven data models and target-state architecture, ensuring alignment with enterprise data platform standards, governance frameworks, and reference architectures.\nAuthor architecture artifacts including logical architecture, detailed designs, ADRs and represent domain solutions through Architecture Review processes.\nAI & Agentic Solution Design\nTranslate product intent into architecture and technical direction for AI-augmented workflows.\nDesign agentic workflows and multi-agent architectures that solve domain business problems, leveraging Google Gemini Enterprise and Vertex AI.\nEstablish reusable agentic design patterns for the domain including evaluation frameworks, human-in-the-loop controls, observability, and cost-awareness built in from design.\nData Architecture on Google Cloud Platform\nArchitect data solutions on the GCP data stack applying medallion architecture, data products, and semantic layer principles.\nEmbed data governance, security, observability, and FinOps considerations into every solution design.\nStakeholder Engagement & Communication\nCommunicate fluently across technical, functional, and business audiences from engineering deep-dives to executive readouts.\nPresent complex concepts in clear accessible terms and build stakeholder confidence in emerging architecture patterns through storytelling, visuals, and working demonstrations.\nInterface with business domain leaders, be at the forefront of planning and engagement and act as a trusted advisor to Domain Business leaders, proactively identifying where Data and AI solutions can create measurable operational value.\nDelivery & Enablement\nPrototype conceptual models that prove out architecture proposals, then execute a structured handover to implementation teams for productionizing, scaling, and support.\nPartner with solution delivery teams, platform engineering, and Run & Support partners to ensure design intent carries through from blueprint to production.\nConduct architecture reviews, provide design guidance to engineering teams, and uplift domain teams on agentic and AI architecture best practices.\nRequirements:\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.\n8+ years of experience in Data Architecture, Solution Architecture, or senior Data Engineering roles, including 3+ years with demonstrated architectural ownership of enterprise-scale solutions.\nDeep expertise in cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure). Hands-on experience with the GCP data ecosystem is a strong advantage.\nDemonstrated ability to define and architect modern AI-enabled solutions, including agentic workflows, LLM application patterns, RAG, grounding, prompt and context engineering, model evaluation.\nProven experience designing agentic workflows and building agentic solutions using Google Gemini Enterprise and/or Vertex AI is a strong advantage.\nDomain knowledge and familiarity with the core processes within relevant business domain(s).\nExceptional communication and presentation skills, with a proven ability to explain complex architectural concepts to technical, functional, and executive audiences.\nExperience operating in a forward-deployed or embedded architecture model within business domains is an advantage.\nFamiliarity with data mesh and data product operating models, semantic layers, and dimensional modeling is an advantage.\nBenefits:\nPerformance-based annual bonus \nPerformance rewards and recognition \nAgile Benefits - special allowances for Health, Wellness & Academic purposes \nPaid birthday leave Team engagement allowance \nComprehensive Health & Life Insurance Cover - extendable to parents and in-laws \nHybrid work arrangement \nSysco LABS is an Equal Opportunity Employer.","description_format":"text","description_chars":5169,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":8,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Hybrid work","Life insurance"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"Sri Lanka","iso":"LK","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Wholesale","Food Logistics"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-20T23:44:59Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":8,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.297,"p_room":0.28,"age_days":50,"expected_fill_days":7,"reasons":["conf:25","stale_co","velocity","win:tail","crowd:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-23T05:54:15Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/sysco-architect-data-engineering","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/sysco-architect-data-engineering.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-23T14:49:32Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":22318,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":1771007},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=1771007"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fsysco-architect-data-engineering"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fsysco-architect-data-engineering"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fsysco-architect-data-engineering"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/sysco-architect-data-engineering\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fsysco-architect-data-engineering"}]}