Enterprise Systems Architect

CooperVision, a division of CooperCompanies (NASDAQ:COO), is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of soft contact lenses. The Company produces a full array of daily disposable, two-week and monthly contact lenses, all featuring advanced materials and optics. CooperVision has a strong heritage of solving the toughest vision challenges such as astigmatism, presbyopia and childhood myopia; and offers the most complete collection of spherical, toric and multifocal products available. Through a combination of innovative products and focused practitioner support, the company brings a refreshing perspective to the marketplace, creating real advantages for customers and wearers. For more information, visit www.coopervision.com.

Job Summary:

The Enterprise Systems Architect will engage with companywide LOB and IT domains such as security, infrastructure, information, and development.  They will be responsible for being a key contributing member of the Team that will architect and design the future user experience from the top down from customer, through applications to their underlying technologies with a focus on usability, performance, availability, continuity, and continuous improvement.  

• Partner with business and technology subject-matter experts to elicit and translate business requirements into technological solutions.
• Integrates business strategy and proposed projects into an enterprise architecture roadmap.
• Collaborate with the business, other technology teams and executive management ensuring solutions are in alignment with other CVI technologies/applications.
• Analyze, evaluate, and advocate the adoption of IT Service delivery best practices within a Global model and across multiple lines of business. 
• Contribute to the designing and planning of Global Enterprise IT Service strategies.
• Architecture of deployment, upgrades, and ongoing management.
• Work with a global cross-functional team to document requirements and develop solutions.
• Contributes to the development of the long-term strategic architecture roadmap for Enterprise IT Services.
• Develop and maintain roadmaps for underlying technologies being leveraged by services
• Ensures buy-in for enterprise architecture roadmap to ensure IT priorities align with business partner needs.
• In conjunction with Senior Enterprise Systems Architect leads the design and modeling of tactical architectures for development, delivery, and support of projects.
• Develops and maintains policies, standards, and guidelines to ensure that a consistent framework is applied across the company.
• Promotes the use of a shared infrastructure, application roadmap, and documentation of interfaces to improve information flow and reduce costs.
• Participate in and provide guidance for vendor selections
• Champion and evangelize new and emerging technology concepts, benefits, and strategies.
• Uses hands-on technology experience to develop special projects and initiatives, as needed.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Experience with Enterprise class technologies and designs including but, not limited to networking, server, and storage systems
• Experience successfully implementing enterprise technology and modernization solutions (e.g., Infrastructure optimization, application consolidation, and enterprise technology integration), operational excellence, and/or continuous improvement initiatives.
• Technical systems architecture and analysis experience (e.g., performance, cost, single point of failure, non-function requirements, capacity planning and modeling)
• Ability to analyze, design, and optimize infrastructure, applications, and enterprise integration solutions, including leadership in rationalizing and deploying emerging technology for business use cases.
• Demonstrated technical leadership and ability to transfer knowledge and information effectively
• Experience with complex multi-tier applications
• Experience planning the overall technology architecture and integration points between systems
• Experience with Medical Device Manufacturing process lifecycle (eg. Demand Planning, Supply Chain, Manufacturing Control Interfaces, Regulatory, WMS, ERP)
• Experience with Lean Six Sigma concept
• Experience working in an IT Service Management environment (e.g. ITIL, ITSM, TOGAF)

Work Environment:

• Normal office environment
• Occasionally lift up to 35lbs
• Prolonged sitting in front of a computer
• Global work environment requiring flexible work schedule

Experience:

• 7+ years’ experience with complex Enterprise Systems

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in IT, CS, or related area