Senior Financial Application Architect - JAX

First American•Jacksonville, FL

About The Position

The Senior Financial Application Architect researches, designs, develops, tests, implements, and supports enterprise planning, budgeting, forecasting, and financial consolidation applications. The role gathers and documents business requirements, assesses feasibility, performs Fit/Gap Analysis, researches packaged application functionality, and configures software to deliver new or modified capabilities. It develops functional and technical specifications, designs solutions, and creates forms, scripts, reports, and application extensions. The position provides application support, including incident triage, troubleshooting, investigating bugs, responding to escalations, resolving production issues, and coordinating service requests with application vendors. It serves as a liaison between Enterprise Application Services and business users, prepares and executes test plans, leads and supports user testing, performs QA testing, and maintains functional and technical documentation. The architect also plans or monitors delivery tasks, maintains application and business-process expertise, mentors other resources as directed, and performs installation, migration, maintenance, performance tuning, and administration of financial and planning applications. Duties outside normal work hours may be required based on business needs.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, Finance, or a related field.
Typically 5–7 years of directly related experience.
Subject matter expertise in one or more financial modules.
Good written and oral communication skills.
Strong organizational or project management skills.
Problem-solving and analytical skills, including the ability to communicate technical information to technical and non-technical users.
Ability to manage multiple tasks, respond quickly to emergent problems, and balance long-range projects with immediate system-maintenance tasks.
Ability to analyze and interpret complex business processes and systems.
Experience with projects involving multiple application modules and integration with other systems.
Experience delivering complex projects on time and without errors.
Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
Working knowledge of planning, budgeting, forecasting, and financial consolidation packaged application functionality and features.
Combined functional expertise, business management, and technical skills, with an understanding of information technology.
Familiarity with creating process documentation, training procedures, and standard operating procedures.
Standard Microsoft Office skills.
Expert-level fluency in multiple application development languages.
Expertise in designing programs and applications.
Ability to quickly grasp concepts related to industry-specific design and development.

Nice To Haves

Certification in planning, budgeting, forecasting, or financial consolidation applications.
Certification in business analysis, such as CBAP or CCBA.
Experience with large packaged software.

Responsibilities

Research, design, develop, test, and implement planning, budgeting, forecasting, and financial consolidation applications and systems.
Lead requirements-gathering meetings, document business needs, and conduct feasibility studies.
Research packaged application functionality and features and perform Fit/Gap Analysis.
Configure application software to deliver new or modified functionality.
Develop functional and technical specifications, design solutions, and create forms and scripts based on application module capabilities.
Provide application support, including incident triage, bug research, customer escalations, and issue resolution.
Develop application extensions and resolve application issues.
Serve as a liaison between Enterprise Application Services and business users.
Prepare test plans and execute, lead, and support user testing; perform QA application testing.
Resolve production issues and create and manage vendor service requests concerning application issues or functionality.
Modify and enhance existing applications.
Plan or monitor tasks and phases involved in delivering application solutions.
Maintain in-depth technical and functional application knowledge and knowledge of the business processes supported.
Guide and mentor other resources as directed by leadership.
Develop and maintain models and documentation describing intended standard functionality.
Install, migrate, maintain, troubleshoot, tune performance, and administer enterprise financial and planning applications.
Perform duties outside normal work hours based on business needs and other duties as assigned.