Principal Enterprise Architect

Description

• Present to stakeholders on how architectural options will meet their needs.
• Coordinate, review, and approve projects to ensure compliance with architectural standards, policies, and guidelines.
• Invests time on a regular basis in performance feedback and developmental conversations.
• Communicates and sets clear goals with plans to deliver.
• Guides and persuades others to deliver positive outcomes.
• Monitor and analyze industry, technology, and market trends to determine their potential impact or application for the organization.
• Maintain a holistic view of the organization’s strategy, processes, information, and technology assets.
• Participate in ERP strategy decisions and provide ERP consulting within IT teams.
• Adjusting and Driving Change: Takes a positive approach to tackling work and embraces change; invites feedback relating to performance and deals constructively with criticism. Identifies the need for and drives change when required to achieve objectives.
• Manages competing priorities effectively.
• Recommend technologies that will increase cost effectiveness and infrastructure flexibility.
• Assess the financial and strategic impact of proposed solutions and technology trends, ensuring alignment with requirements, architectural standards, and total cost of ownership.
• Evaluates and recommends technologies that solve business challenges, enhance customer and Team Member experience, and drive competitive advantage
• Fosters a respectful and inclusive environment.
• Help business leaders and their teams think through the technology, business, and operational implications of their technology investment decisions.
• Encourages out-of-the box thinking to create new ways of doing things.
• Actively collaborates and communicates across the BFS organization; acts as a facilitator, technology evangelist, innovator and change agent
• Occasional travel may be required.
• Builds trust-based relationships.
• Develops and executes breakthrough strategies.
• Develops and Leads Others
• Asks questions to identify root cause and analyze situations more accurately.
• Partners with business and technology subject matter experts translate business requirements into technological solutions.
• Leverages resources and teams around them to solve problems and create mutually beneficial outcomes.
• Contribute to and execute on IT strategy to ensure alignment with the organization’s goals and objectives.
• Conduct research and Proofs of Concept on emerging technologies in support of anticipated development efforts.
• Coaches and mentor others for their development.

Requirements

• Experience in ITIL, SDLC, Agile, and other common frameworks
• 15+ years relevant hands-on experience in SAP product portfolio
• Demonstrates proactive versus reactive thinking.
• Demonstrates functional and/or technical expertise.
• Ability to translate technical ideas/designs to multiple audiences, including Executives.
• Demonstrates a growth mindset; takes appropriate risks, fails fast and forward, learns from mistakes.
• Continuously demonstrate technology thought leadership and build collaborative relationships within business and IT teams based on integrity and clarity of purpose.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, influencing and negotiation skills with proven ability to influence at all levels and lead cross-functional teams in an environment of competing interests and limited resources.
• Must be able to lift and carry up to 25 pounds.
• Demonstrates situational awareness - knows when and how to adjust leadership style in different situations.
• Demonstrates depth of understanding for the P&L and financial analysis
• Understands customer sales and engagement.
• Demonstrates willingness and courage to make tough decisions in a timely manner.
• Expert problem-solving skills and the ability to work collaboratively with other departments to resolve complex issues with innovative solutions.
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college/university. Master’s degree is a plus.
• Knows the different business segments and how they relate to one another.
• Demonstrates and encourages intellectual curiosity.
• Actively listens to understand the meaning and intent of what the other person is communicating.
• Focuses on Customers: Understands and anticipates customer needs and takes action to provide high-quality products and services to exceed expectations.
• Strategic Thinking and Decision Making
• Ability to make architecture changes providing tactical and strategic approaches to the product teams in a dynamic Agile environment.
• Technical Communication/Presentation: Communicates with clarity and precision, presenting complex information in a concise format that is appropriate to the audience.
• Excellent presentation and facilitation skills
• Understands KPIs and how BFS makes money.
• Established strategic and critical analysis skills
• Collaborates well across all areas of the business.
• Ability to architect technical solutions that drive and support strategic business processes, ensuring the solutions are comprehensive, robust, scalable, and aligned around core business needs
• Growth Mindset
• Proven skill in establishing and maintaining effective working relationships
• Conducts tough conversations and delivers difficult messages with kindness and respect.
• Emotional Intelligence
• Demonstrates Business Acumen: Demonstrates working knowledge of market, economic, legal and regulatory environments and how they impact the business.
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills complemented by solid business and technical background, and keen interest in business operations, process improvement, and change impact.
• Business and Financial Acumen
• Demonstrates self-starter, can-do attitude.
• Understands complex issues and demonstrates problem solving skills.
• Thorough understanding of and experience with multiple SDLC methods such as waterfall, SCRUM, and/or Agile.
• Demonstrates self-awareness - understands strengths and weaknesses.
• Drives alignment through clear communication of vision, goals, and expectations.
• Bias for Action: Takes initiative and identifies what needs to be done and acts without waiting to be asked. Executes work in a timely manner. Suggest improvements to current ways of working.
• Empowers, motivates, and inspires others.
• Evaluates Problems: Evaluates and analyzes different types of information objectively to identify appropriate solutions; writes fluently, establishing the key facts clearly and interprets numerical data effectively.
• Subject to both typical office environment and outside locations with temperature and weather variations.
• Demonstrated experience evaluating the financial impact of technology solutions, including total cost of ownership, ROI, and alignment with organizational objectives.
• Experience in Enterprise architecture or application architecture, application development, and/or systems management
• Understands how to maximize business results regardless of industry cycle.
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in architecting and deploying SAP systems, including S/4 HANA and other SAP products
• Agile Best Practices: Understands how agility is leveraged in IT ways of working. Adopts agile best practices as appropriate throughout the assigned work lifecycle. Responds to feedback quickly based on comments from internal and external customers and needs of the market.
• Teaches business and financial acumen to others.
• Working knowledge of large-scale integrated enterprise solutions, supporting integration patterns and associated technologies

Benefits

• Continuous learner; seeks opportunities and knowledge for personal and professional growth.

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance