Solution Architect - Solution Architecture
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REQ-1000036445Key Responsibilities:Responsible for engaging stakeholders and customers, providing technical and functional expertise to provide vision, oversight, and coordination across a 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 a 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 research of the market and approves Make vs Buy options to meet business requirements.Provides support to document high-level design of solutions.Helps to define the effort and skills required to implement solutions.Ensures 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.Guides on how to leverage technology to solve a business problem.Works closely in collaboration with Enterprise Architecture to shape EA guardrails, standards, and patterns.Understands and aligns 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 (ver. 2009, 8.2, 2014, others).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.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
Find out more about the daily tasks, overall responsibilities, and required experience for this opportunity by scrolling down now.• Graduate degree and 6-8 years relevant experience.We Don’t Just Build The World, We Build Innovative Technology Too.Joining the Stanley Black & Decker team means working in an innovative, tech-driven and highly collaborative team environment supported by over 58,000 professionals in 60 countries across the globe. Here, you’ll get the unique chance to impact some of the world’s most iconic brands including STANLEY TOOLS, DEWALT, CRAFTSMAN, MAC TOOLS and Black + Decker. Your ideas and solutions have the potential to reach millions of customers as we work together to write the next chapter in our history. Come build with us and take your career to new heights.Who We Are:We’re the World’s largest tool company. We’re industry visionaries. We’re solving problems and advancing the manufacturing trade through innovative technology and our Industry 4.0 Initiative. We are committed to ensuring our state-of-the-art “smart factory” products and services provide greater quality to our customers & greater environmental and social value to our planet. We are unique in that we have a rich and storied history dating back to 1843, but that hasn't stopped us from evolving into a vibrant, diverse, global growth company.Global Benefits & Perks:You’ll be rewarded with a competitive salary plus receive entitlements and benefits unique to your country of hire.What You’ll Also Get:Career Opportunity: Career paths aren’t linear here. Being part of our global company with 60+ brands gives you the chance to grow and develop your skills along multiple career paths.Learning & Development:Our lifelong learning philosophy means you’ll have access to a wealth of state-of-the-art learning resources, including our Lean Academy and online university (where you can get certificates and specializations from renowned colleges and universities).Diverse & Inclusive Culture:We pride ourselves on being an awesome place to work. We respect and embrace differences because that’s how the best work gets done. You’ll find we like to have fun here, too.Purpose-Driven Company:You’ll help us continue to make positive changes in the local communities where we work and live as well as in the broader world through volunteerism, giving back and sustainable business practices.About Us For the builders and protectors, for the makers and explorers, for those shaping and reshaping our world through hard work and inspiration, Stanley Black & Decker provides the tools and innovative solutions you can trust to get the job done—and we have since 1843.Let’s Connect Looking for your dream job? Upload your resume and contact info, and we’ll send you exciting job opportunities that align with your skills, goals, and experience!Are you currently employed by SBD?
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