Solution Architect - Oracle EBS

millenniumsoft • Columbus, IN

14d

About The Position

Responsible for assessing, defining and championing the IT architecture strategies, principles, policies and standards in alignment with the IT strategy and governing their use; coordinates with project teams to create, document, assess and/or validate the application and infrastructure solution designs for specific systems.

Requirements

• Lifecycle Management - The management of an IT Asset or component from inception throughout its useful life. The Planning phase decides to Replace or add new, Re-engineer, Retire, or Retain/Maintain it.
• Solution Design - The activities involved in conceptualizing, defining, architecting, and ultimately designing complex systems.
• Appling Standards to Solutions - Able to apply industry and internal IT standards to solutions and to assess compliance of a solution against industry and internal IT standards.
• System Development Methodologies - Able to apply industry defined development techniques to create or modify IT solutions.
• Research - Able to conduct a process of steps used to collect and analyze information to increase our understanding of a topic or issue.
• Modeling - The ability to represent information following a defined standard, using a combination of graphical and textual elements. The ability to choose the correct type of model for a particular set of information, depending on the type of information to be communicated as well as the audience who will consume the information.
• Relationship Management - Creates relationships with new acquaintances quickly and confidently; works to build trust and partner with stakeholders; successfully manages both internal and external relationships (e.g., vendor relationships); is comfortable in a challenger role that, at times, requires building constructive tension in interactions.
• Influence - Applies different approaches to convince others to change their opinion or plan, and wins support from others for ideas; is able to build support with peers without direct lines of reporting across a matrix organization.
• Decision Making - Considers the relative benefits and costs of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one; acts decisively and swiftly; identifies problems and drives toward solutions; takes on responsible roles and accountability for outcomes even when things go wrong; is comfortable making difficult decisions.
• College, university, or equivalent degree in Information Technology, Business or a related subject required.
• Significant relevant experience required. 5-7 years of experience.
• Extensive experience on Oracle Applications R12
• Knowledge on one or more - Master Planning & Production Scheduling, Supply Action Management, Aggregate Supply Planning, Sales & Operations Planning, Demand Planning etc.
• Experience with Implementing EBS, solid knowledge of Sourcing and Procurement
• Knowledge of one or more - Oracle Cost Management (CST), Oracle Inventory (INV), and Oracle Order Management (OM), Oracle Financials (AR, AP, GL, FA)

Responsibilities

• Responsible for the research, evaluation, and selection of application, technology, and infrastructure standards.
• Leads the analysis of the technology environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement.
• Creates project and technology roadmaps and define migration plans to mitigate the gaps between the current and future state.
• Develops standards for the specific function or technology domain and defines design patterns and configurations that can be reused as building blocks for other solutions.
• Leads and facilitates the creation of governing principles to manage change and guide solution decisions for the enterprise.
• Maintains positive relationships with IT and business leaders to effectively promote and communicate IT architecture value proposition.
• Collaborates with IT stakeholders to apply IT strategy to architecture future state architecture and develops roadmaps to realize future state.
• Defines and ensures effective metrics to measure standards adoption, reuse, and demonstrate value.
• Maintain knowledge of emerging technology and software trends focused on driving comparative advantage for CMI.
• Cultivates strong relationships with industry experts; participates and may present at conferences and round tables.
• Performs complex cost/benefit analysis when researching future state capabilities.
• Coaches and mentors less senior Architects.
• Collaborates with project teams to understand requested capabilities and recommends the right set of technologies to meet the needs.
• Provides infrastructure capacity recommendations for new applications and systems.
• Lead the solution architecture design on Cummins projects and programs
• Support BUs by conveying industry trends, enterprise technology strategy and define technical solutions which meet the business requirement and deliver reference architecture as needed.
• Design innovative solutions to business problems and enhancement requests, taking full account of existing system design constraints.
• Conduct architecture impact analysis of identified changes by business and ensure optimal solution selection for business process improvements.
• Work with enterprise architects, project teams, functional and technical analysts to design solution architecture that meets operational requirements and is scalable, easily maintained, secure and highly available.
• Ensure solutions are production ready and meet the organization standards and partner with the project teams to oversee the implementation of the solution.
• Work with other Architects and Project Teams to facilitate alignment among architecture decisions
• Identify and share best-practice knowledge amongst the other Cummins Solutions architect community
• Develop and produce Architecture artifacts, technical designs, strategy documents and other technical artifacts.
• Facilitate and manage evaluations and proof of concept activities as subject matter expert.
• Work with internal and external Oracle technical resources, and assist in managing technical and functional changes associated with Oracle EBS and ERP projects
• Provide expertise to ensure realization of changes and enhancements to the implemented Oracle systems, and assisting with architecture needs of the Oracle E-Business Suite applications, components, extensions, integrations and reports.
• Provide support for the overall solution design and configuration of Oracle E-Business Suite, how it interacts with other integrated systems, custom extensions and reports, integration components, reports and dashboards components.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Mid Level