Senior Specialist, Finance Solution Architect

Eaton Corporation•Raleigh, NC

2d•$130,000 - $190,000•Onsite

About The Position

Eaton’s Corporate Sector is seeking a Senior Specialist, Finance Solution Architect. The role can be based in Beachwood, Ohio; Galesburg, Michigan; Houston, Texas; Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin; Moon Township, Pennsylvania; or Raleigh, North Carolina. The expected annual salary range is $130,000–$190,000, and the position is eligible for a variable incentive program. Salary is determined based on candidate skills, experience, qualifications, market, and business considerations. The Solutions Architect understands requirements and problem statements for the Finance Value Stream and develops solution architectures to address them. The workstream covers Accounting, Controls, Tax, FP&A, Treasury, Audit, and Real Estate. The architect applies Eaton’s enterprise applications, security policies, standards, and architecture best practices to create secure, scalable, cost-effective, performant, and resilient solutions. They participate in technical discussions and present architectures and supporting materials to enterprise architecture councils, business stakeholders, cybersecurity teams, and others, incorporating feedback into the designs. The role helps the business evaluate technical capabilities of SaaS applications, recommend suitable options, and develop architectures for onboarding and integration with Eaton’s on-premises, cloud-hosted, and SaaS applications. It also develops architectures integrating existing applications to meet business needs. When SaaS is not suitable, the architect provides cloud-first architectures for internally developed applications and gives development teams design oversight and guidance during project execution. Solutions must support Eaton’s strategic business and IT goals. The position has no relocation benefit. Candidates must live within 50 miles of one of the listed locations or be Active Duty Military. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without company sponsorship, now or in the future.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution.
At least 8 years of experience in the software industry with a proven track record of shipping high-quality products.
Advanced knowledge of Accounting and Controls, Tax, FP&A, Treasury, Audit, and Real Estate.
Expert-level understanding of software design principles, design patterns, algorithms, data structures, and multithreading concepts.
Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without company sponsorship, now or in the future.
Must live within 50 miles of Beachwood, OH; Galesburg, MI; Houston, TX; Menomonee Falls, WI; Moon Township, PA; or Raleigh, NC, or be Active Duty Military.
Effective verbal and written communication, including the ability to explain and present technical concepts.
Comfort working directly with technical and non-technical audiences.
Good judgment, time-management, and decision-making skills.
Ability to work collaboratively on a technical team.
Patience and empathy when working with architects, developers, and testers.
Experience working with diverse, global cultures, organizations, and teams.
Proven ability to work in a self-directed manner.
Ability to translate business issues, requirements, and objectives into technical solutions.

Nice To Haves

Extensive experience applying software engineering best practices.
Experience with Finance systems and their associated development languages and platforms.
Extensive experience developing secure, enterprise-grade, highly scalable, high-performance applications and/or distributed systems.
Solid understanding of DevSecOps, CI, and CD principles from code check-in through deployment.
Extensive experience with modern software development principles, including code management, test automation, APIs, microservices, and cloud services.
Solid understanding of cybersecurity concepts such as encryption, hashing, certificates, PKIs, threat modeling, secure coding, and OWASP.
Experience working with Agile, Scrum, or Kanban.
Experience working with a cloud platform such as Azure, AWS, or GCP.
Experience documenting business processes.
Experience with Capability Based Planning.

Responsibilities

Design solutions that meet customer and stakeholder needs.
Create dataflow and process mappings.
Assess the feasibility and sustainability of designed solutions.
Design and evolve technical solutions that support current and future needs.
Manage nonfunctional requirements and compliance.
Define and prioritize enablers, including exploration work and technical debt reduction.
Enable continuous integration and continuous delivery to support immediate feedback and adjustment.
Maintain architectural runways for a series of products within a Value Stream.
Manage, track, and evaluate technical capabilities across the Value Stream to facilitate selection and alignment of technical solutions with enterprise guardrails; execute proofs of concept where applicable.
Ensure designs meet Eaton’s standards and requirements.
Partner with other architects to evaluate capabilities and features and expand the use of existing applications to meet additional business requirements.
Build BPMNs to standards and within process-modelling tools.
Build ArchiMate diagrams to depict architectures.
Work with peers to ensure holistic, end-to-end views of architecture decisions across value streams.
Collaborate with and drive synergies among enterprise architects, system architects, and product owners.
Partner with cybersecurity to ensure secure architectures and disaster recovery preparedness.
Work with product owners to develop and align roadmaps and ensure logical, efficient sequencing of end-to-end rollouts.
Understand Finance Value Stream requirements and develop solution architectures for Accounting, Controls, Tax, FP&A, Treasury, Audit, and Real Estate.
Present architectures and supporting artifacts to enterprise architecture councils, business stakeholders, cybersecurity teams, and other stakeholders; incorporate feedback.
Evaluate market SaaS applications, recommend preferred applications, and design onboarding and integration architectures.
Develop cloud-first architectures for internally built applications when SaaS is not suitable, and provide development teams with design oversight and guidance during project execution.
Ensure solutions support Eaton’s strategic business and IT goals.