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Yum! Center for Global Franchise Excellence

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1 - 10 employees

🤝 B2B

🛍️ eCommerce

🛒 Retail

B2B • eCommerce • Retail

Yum! Center for Global Franchise Excellence is part of Yum! Brands, Inc. , which operates a global network of over 60,000 restaurants under well-known brands such as KFC, Taco Bell, and Pizza Hut. Focused on building and partnering with franchise operators, the center aims to foster growth and excellence in franchising, while emphasizing sustainability and corporate responsibility across its operations in more than 155 countries.

📋 Description

• Own global network and firewall architecture standards and governance for Yum. • Establish architectural guardrails, reference designs, and modernization roadmap. • Provide deep technical leadership across architecture, security, operational readiness, and risk management. • Partner with various teams to define scalable, secure, and resilient architecture patterns. • Shape solution designs for complex programs by evaluating options, tradeoffs, dependencies, risk, scalability, resiliency, and operational readiness.

🎯 Requirements

• Expert-level knowledge of enterprise network and firewall architecture in complex, multi-region environments.** • Deep understanding of routing, switching, firewalls, network segmentation, VPN, SD-WAN, wireless, DNS, load balancing, remote access, cloud networking, and network security control patterns.** • Strong ability to define architecture standards, reference designs, guardrails, governance processes, and technical exception models.** • Experience leading architecture for major network, firewall, infrastructure, cloud, security, or transformation initiatives.** • Ability to assess technical debt, prioritize modernization work, and develop strategic roadmaps that improve resiliency, scalability, security, and operational efficiency.** • Strong risk-based decision-making skills, including the ability to evaluate design tradeoffs across security, performance, availability, cost, user experience, and operational complexity.** • Experience reviewing and approving high-risk technical changes, significant design decisions, and complex architecture exceptions.** • Ability to influence senior leaders, technical teams, vendors, and regional stakeholders without relying solely on direct authority.** • Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex architecture decisions to technical and non-technical audiences.** • Experience with architecture governance, change governance, audit remediation, vulnerability remediation, compliance requirements, and control validation as they relate to network and firewall environments.** • **Qualifications**** • Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Network Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.** • Typically 12+ years of relevant experience in network architecture, firewall architecture, infrastructure architecture, cybersecurity architecture, or a closely related technology function.** • Experience owning or materially shaping architecture standards and governance for enterprise-scale or global network and firewall environments.** • Experience serving as a senior technical authority for complex design decisions, high-risk changes, architecture exceptions, or major transformations.** • Experience partnering with cybersecurity, infrastructure, operations, cloud, GRC, regional technology teams, vendors, and managed service providers.** • Relevant certifications such as CCIE, CCNP, CISSP, CISM, cloud networking certifications, firewall platform certifications, or architecture-related certifications are preferred but not required.

🏖️ Benefits

• comprehensive benefits