SENIOR TECHNOLOGY SOLUTION LEAD

Toyota Industries Commercial Finance • Dallas, TX

7h • Hybrid

About The Position

Toyota Industries Commercial Finance (TICF) is undergoing a digital transformation to enhance digital touchpoints for associates, dealers, and end customers. The Business Transformation Architect will play a key role in this transformation by leading Application Delivery activities. This involves guiding the development and management of a portfolio of solutions, including projects, products, systems, infrastructure, and application services. The architect must possess a deep understanding of business goals, capabilities, value-streams, and processes. They will provide leadership, analysis, and design to ensure technology solutions meet business needs and adhere to architectural standards and governance.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, system analysis or a related study, or equivalent experience
• Working knowledge for Odessa Asset Finance System and/or SAP finance is must have
• Minimum of seven years of experience in at least two IT solution development disciplines, including technical or infrastructure architecture, network management, application development, middleware, database management or cloud development
• Good understanding of strategic and new and emerging technology trends, and the practical application of existing, new, and emerging technologies to new and evolving business and operating models
• Experience working in the financial industry
• Experience developing architecture blueprints, strategies, and roadmaps
• Experience delivering presentations to senior-level executives and technical audiences
• Good knowledge of at least one database technologies like SQL, MongoDB and Oracle – preferable SQL
• Knowledge of API framework
• Good understanding of at least one cloud platform like Azure, AWS – preferable Azure
• Willing to learn new technology
• Knowledge of various aspects of enterprise technology architecture like business, information, data, network and security
• Understanding and knowledge of system development life cycle methodologies (such as waterfall, agile software development, DevOps)
• Understanding and knowledge of IT service management (ITSM) and Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
• Excellent analytical, planning, organizational and technical and skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work with onshore, offshore, outsourced developers
• Extremely focused and result oriented
• Skilled at influencing, guiding and helping stakeholders and peers with decision making
• Ability to understand the long-term ("big picture") and short-term perspectives of situations
• Ability to translate future-state business capabilities and requirements into solution architecture requirements
• Ability to quickly comprehend the functions and capabilities of new technologies

Responsibilities

• Understands business drivers and capabilities (future and current state) and decides corresponding enterprise system designs and change requirements to drive the organization's targeted business outcomes.
• Understands emerging technology trends and disruptions and the practical application of existing, new, and emerging technologies to enable new and evolving business and operating models.
• Translate business goals and strategy into actionable business and system requirements.
• Translates business and technical requirements into an architectural blueprint to achieve business objectives and documents all solution architecture design and analysis work.
• Acts as a consultant on a broad range of technologies, platforms, and vendor offerings to drive targeted business outcomes.
• Leads evaluation, design and analysis for the implementation of a solutions architecture across a group of specific business applications or technologies based on enterprise business strategy, business capabilities, value-streams, business requirements and enterprise standards.
• Creates architectural designs to guide and contextualize solution development across products, services, projects and systems (including applications, technologies, processes and information).
• Analyzes the business-IT environment (run, grow and transform the business) to detect critical deficiencies, legacy and technical debt, and recommends solutions for improvement (systems of record, differentiation and innovation).
• Manage and hold our vendor responsible for getting the solution delivered
• Investigates and analyzes application issues and directs 3rd Party vendors in proper solutions.
• Designs and directs the governance activities associated with ensuring solutions architecture assurance and compliance.
• Defines the principles, guidelines, standards, and solution patterns to ensure solution decisions are aligned with the enterprise's future-state architecture vision.
• Facilitates the evaluation and selection of software product standards and services, as well as the design of standard and custom software configurations.
• Identifies the organizational impact (for example, on skills, processes, structures, or culture) and financial impact of the solutions architecture.
• Work closely within IT team and developers; Able to collaborate and manage the development team and delivery
• Works closely with the (PMO) project management office to ensure the execution of plans corresponds with what is being promised throughout the project or product lifecycle.
• Works closely with the product owners to ensure a robust architectural runway that can support future business requirements throughout the product lifecycle.
• Provides consulting support to agile teams to ensure the project or product is aligned with the overall enterprise architecture.
• Consults with application and infrastructure development projects and products to fit systems or infrastructure to architecture and identify when it is necessary to change projects to accommodate the solutions architecture.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Company-wide bonus program
• Market leading benefit package
• Hybrid work schedules
• Flexibility to work from home
• 9/80 work schedule (alternating Fridays off or fixed morning/afternoon off each week)
• Associate Lease Program for Toyota or Lexus vehicles (includes insurance, maintenance, registration, payroll deduction)
• Option to purchase Toyota or Lexus vehicles on special terms
• Vacation time
• Paid personal time
• Paid sick time
• 14 paid company holidays
• Paid year-end shutdown period (for most departments)
• Ability to rollover unused time
• Student loan repayment assistance ($200/month up to $20,000)
• Education assistance (up to $5,250 for ongoing education)
• Company sponsored training
• Low cost, low deductible PPO health insurance plan
• CDHP plan with employer contributions to Health Savings Account
• Expansive Blue Cross Blue Shield network
• Affordable dental insurance
• Affordable vision insurance
• Flexible spending accounts
• Advocacy and employee assistance program
• No cost short term disability insurance
• No cost long term disability insurance
• 2x annual salary life insurance/AD&D
• 401(k) program through Fidelity Investments
• Company match of 66 2/3% up to 6% in 401(k)
• Flexibility of pre-tax, Roth and after-tax contributions in 401(k)
• Four weeks of paid parental bonding leave
• Paid maternity leave
• Adoption assistance
• Eight hours of paid time to volunteer

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior