- Responsible for engaging stakeholders, customers, providing technical and functional expertise to provide vision, oversight, and coordination across portfolio of technical solutions being developed in that domain
- Develops, maintains, and communicates processes and standard practices related to the high-level design, development, and implementation of solutions across portfolio of projects and enhancements in the domain
- Ensures solutions meet business needs along with architecturally significant functional and nonfunctional requirements
- Works with the business to define technology roadmaps
- Helps to ensure outside partners are educated on approved technical solutions and works with those partners to ensure requirements are met
Key activities:
- Translates business domain understanding and context to technical capabilities for technical architects and development teams.
- Accountable for collaborating with business relationship managers and business stakeholders to understand business requirements, identifying solution gaps and available capabilities, and defining solutions to meet the business need.
- Supports to research the market and approve Make vs Buy options to meet business requirements
- Provide support to document high level design of solutions
- Helps to define the effort and skills required to implement solutions
- Ensure work scope is maintained and solutions are implemented, managing approved Changes
- Conducts application scan and risk review to validate privacy, security, and risk policies are met
- Responsible for examining the current systems architecture and working with business and technical staff to recommend solutions that result in more effective systems
- Guide on how to leverage technology to solve a business problem
- Work closely in collaboration with Enterprise Architecture to shape EA guardrails, standards and patterns
- Understand and align solutions with Enterprise Architecture principles, guardrails, standards, patterns, and frameworks.
- Works with outside partners to ensure SBD requirements are met
Functional Skills
- Knowledge and understanding of BY/JDA Warehouse Management System
- Business acumen
- Familiarity with SDLC methodologies (Waterfall and Agile / Scrum / Iterative Development)
- ITFS Project Methodology knowledge
- Ability to tie together solutions across systems
- Application domain knowledge
- Understanding of current and future technologies
- Oral & written communications
- Business case development
- Estimation of project scope/duration
- Ability to simplify & standardize complex concepts / processes
Technical Skills
- Blue Yonder/JDA - MOCA, Report Writer, Jasper, Java, C+, .NET
- Blue Yonder/JDA - Integration Technologies and tools
- Blue Yonder/JDA - System Setups and Configuration
- SQL (Oracle or SQL Server)
- Version Control (SVN)
- Integration Technologies
- Infrastructure technologies, including cloud computing / SaaS / IaaS / PaaS technologies
- Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
- Big Data Analytics, Data Architecture & Modeling
- Web/Mobile Technologies
- Expertise in application technologies / platforms / capabilities with a broader understanding of the overall environment
Behavioral Skills
- Ability to influence
- Ability to execute
- Ability to prioritize and make trade-off decisions
- Adaptability / ability to manage change
- Interpersonal skills
- Problem solving / analytical thinking
- Creative thinking
- Conceptual thinking
- Teamwork and collaboration
- Strong growth mindset
Education/Experience
Undergraduate degree and 8-10 years relevant experience, or
Graduate degree and 6-8 years relevant experience.
