How will you fit in the big picture?
The Staff AI Solution Architect is a highly collaborative individual contributor within Hershey's central IS AI organization. This role partners with functional teams and digital leads to identify high-value business opportunities and enable the design, adoption, and scaling of AI, automation, and agent-based solutions. Rather than owning day-to-day business operations, this role empowers business teams to successfully build, deploy, measure, and sustain digital solutions while ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture, data, security, and governance standards.
What will you do?
Partner with functional leaders and digital teams to identify, prioritize, and shape AI and automation opportunities that drive measurable business value.
Translate business needs into practical, scalable solution designs leveraging AI, workflow automation, analytics, and emerging agentic capabilities.
Coach, train, and enable business users to design, test, deploy, and continuously improve solutions using approved enterprise platforms.
Collaborate with data, architecture, security, governance, and platform teams to ensure solutions meet enterprise standards.
Establish KPIs, success measures, adoption plans, and performance expectations for AI-enabled solutions.
Provide reusable standards, design patterns, testing approaches, documentation, and implementation guidance.
Support solution lifecycle management from ideation through deployment, optimization, and retirement.
Monitor solution effectiveness and recommend opportunities to improve, scale, redesign, or sunset solutions based on results.
Contribute to enterprise AI best practices, governance frameworks, and reusable technical playbooks.
Minimum Requirements
Experience
5+ years of progressive experience in technology delivery, software engineering, data and analytics, automation, digital transformation, enterprise systems implementation, or related fields.
Experience translating business challenges into technology solutions and driving measurable outcomes.
Experience working with AI, workflow automation, analytics, digital products, or enterprise platforms.
Working knowledge of APIs, integrations, enterprise data sources, and solution architecture principles.
Experience collaborating across business, technology, data, security, and governance stakeholders.
Strong understanding of responsible AI, data governance, privacy, security, and risk management practices.
Demonstrated curiosity and continuous learning mindset related to AI, automation, large language models, and emerging technologies.
Education
Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience required.
Preferred fields of study include Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, Analytics, Data Science, Business Technology, or related disciplines.
Benefits and Perks
At Hershey, we offer competitive pay and a comprehensive total rewards package designed to support your wellbeing, financial security, and life outside of work.
Health & Wellbeing: Medical, dental, and vision coverage, plus wellness programs that support your physical and mental health
Financial Security: Competitive pay, annual incentive opportunities, and a 401(k) with company match
Time Off & Flexibility: Paid time off, company holidays, and flexible ways of working where applicable
Growth & Development: Career development programs, learning opportunities, and internal mobility
Benefits may vary based on role, location, and eligibility
The anticipated base salary range for this role is $111,600 to $139,500 per year. The actual base salary offered will depend on a variety of job‑related factors, including, but not limited to, experience, skill set, education, and training. In addition to a market-competitive base salary, our Total Rewards package includes performance‑based incentives and a comprehensive, competitive benefits package designed to support overall physical, mental, and financial well‑being (as applicable). Learn more about Hershey’s benefits and all the resources Hershey provides to support our employees’ physical, emotional, and financial well‑being by visiting the Hershey Digital Employee Experience at www.askHRbenefits.hersheys.com
The Hershey Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The policy of The Hershey Company is to extend opportunities to qualified applicants and employees on an equal basis regardless of an individual's race, color, gender, age, national origin, religion, citizenship status, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, transgender status, physical or mental disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other categories protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.
The Hershey Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer - Minority/Female/Disabled/Protected Veterans. You may request a reasonable accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access our online application process as a result of a disability. You can request an accommodation via phone or email.To request an accommodation via phone, please call +1 877-804-1794 and leave a voicemail with your contact information. You may also email a request for accommodation to ApplicationHelp@hersheys.com. Please be sure to include “Accommodation Needed” in the subject line. This will ensure that your email is routed to the appropriate contact who will handle your request.
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Nearest Major Market: Dallas
Nearest Secondary Market: Fort Worth
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