Solution Architect, Data & AI

About HAVI HAVI, part of Morgan Street Holdings, a Chicago-based company and private investment group, is a global leader in integrated supply chain management for the food industry, providing end-to-end solutions for retail, quick-service restaurants (QSR), and food service (FSR) in over 30 markets. Our comprehensive services include freight management, distribution and warehousing, planning and analytics, and waste and recycling solutions. Designed to enhance operational efficiency and reduce complexity, our solutions empower businesses to focus on their customers while we take care of the logistics.

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havi.com

10,001+ employees

Holding Companies

Chicago, Illinois

Privately Held

56k LinkedIn followers

• Portfolio Health: Monitor the solution ecosystem to identify misalignment, aging technologies, or critical deficiencies in legacy systems.
• Modernization & Retirement: Lead "Keep vs. Retire" assessments, supporting Product Managers in decommissioning end-of-life systems and transitioning to modern stacks, in partnership with market technology leads.
• Innovation & R&D: Analyze emerging market trends (AI/ML, Edge, etc.) and perform Proof-of-Concept (PoC) implementations to determine their practical application to the business model.
• Cross-Domain Design: Lead the evaluation and design of architecture spanning multiple applications, ensuring consistency across cloud, on-prem, and hybrid environments. Collaborate with solution owners to ensure design consistency across the technology landscape, at varying levels of details.
• Strategic Road Mapping: Develop and maintain the evolution roadmap from current-state to future-state architecture.
• Agile Integration: Provide high-level consultancy to decentralized Agile teams, ensuring individual product designs roll up into a cohesive enterprise strategy.
• Standards Leadership: Define principles, guidelines, and reference patterns (UML/ArchiMate) to streamline decision-making, in close collaboration with Enterprise Architecture and the Technical Review Board.
• Compliance & Assurance: Direct governance activities to ensure all solution designs meet security, privacy, and regulatory standards.
• Responsible AI Governance: Ensure AI‑enabled solutions comply with enterprise standards for security, privacy, data governance, explainability, and ethical use of AI, aligned with internal policies and external regulatory requirements.
• Community of Practice (CoP): Foster a culture of architectural excellence by mentoring solution owners and lead developers.

Required

• The Solution Architect, Data & AI is expected to maintain a broad technical perspective across the following domains, including emerging technologies such as AI. Please note that bold areas necessitate advanced expertise and extensive practical experience
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, System Analysis, or a related field (master’s degree preferred).
• Experience: 6+ years in several IT disciplines (e.g., Application Development, Integration, Middleware, Cloud Architecture, or Data and Analytics).
• Planning: Deep understanding of supply chain planning processes and the enterprise platforms that support them.
• Forecasting: Proven capability in statistical forecasting and enabling ML-driven forecasting solutions.
• Data & Analytics: Hands-on experience with data platforms, including warehouses, lakehouses, data transformation pipelines, and MDM.
• Integration: Strong knowledge of integration patterns (APIs, event streaming, MFT) and experience with iPaaS/middleware solutions in complex B2B ecosystems.
• Cloud: Solid experience across major cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP), designing scalable, cloud-native architectures.
• Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs): Expertise in designing for performance, scalability, resilience, security, and cost efficiency.

Preferred

• Databricks Lakehouse, Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, AI/ML solution patterns, generative AI architectures, AI service integrations
• Cloud-native patterns, Integration, Networking, Security
• Starting Salary is $125,000-$155,000 with a 10% targeted bonus
• TOTAL REWARDS
• Our total rewards philosophy integrates programs for compensation, benefits, recognition, learning and development, corporate culture, corporate citizenship and work-life balance. While individual program components may differ by country, some things remain constant
• Opportunities to work with talented and driven individuals at every level of our company who respect each other, treat each other fairly and hold one another accountable for our customers’—and our company’s—success
• Inclusive employee resource groups
• Generous medical, dental, vision and other great benefits
• Paid parental and medical leave programs
• 401(k) with a company match component and profit sharing
• 15 days of paid time off plus company holidays
• Hybrid work model with flexibility
• Tuition reimbursement and student loan repayment assistance
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• Please submit an online application with your salary expectations and an indication of your earliest starting date.

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Paid parental leave
• Paid medical leave
• 401(k) with company match
• Profit sharing
• Paid time off
• Tuition reimbursement
• Student loan repayment assistance