Principal Solution Architect - Oracle FInancials

Company Description

CREATIVITY IS OUR SUPERPOWER. It’s our heritage and it’s also our future. Because we don’t just make toys. We create innovative products and experiences that inspire fans, entertain audiences and develop children through play. Mattel is at its best when every member of our team feels respected, included, and heard—when everyone can show up as themselves and do their best work every day. We value and share an infinite range of ideas and voices that evolve and broaden our perspectives with a reach that extends into all our brands, partners, and suppliers.

Job Description

The Opportunity: 

Open to remote but must travel up to 20% 

Mattel is currently seeking an Enterprise/Solution Architect to support our Finance domain. Reporting to the Enterprise Architecture Group in the CTO Organization, the Principal Enterprise Architect will help in defining the next generation technology platform and product platform architectures. The role will collaborate across many domain areas including digital, supply chain, HR/Financials and Data Warehousing. The role is the critical change agent required to drive the architectural strategy to execution, enabling IT to react faster to future business requests and reduce overall costs for IT projects. The role will be a key contributor to technology roadmaps, blueprints and technology product governance affecting key business metrics including new revenue, NPS etc. As an Enterprise/Solution architect you will regularly participate in program leadership meetings, and occasionally in program steering committee meetings with Director/Sr. Director/VP/C-Suite level stakeholders to lead discussions and resolve critical issues. The ideal candidate should have strong technical skills across multiple technology disciplines (data pipelines, modern integration patterns, databases etc.), including a solid understanding of Modernization of legacy applications to Cloud technologies. In addition to technical skills, the ideal candidate should possess functional and demonstrated technical expertise architecting solutions in one or more of the following domains: Financial Planning, Enterprise Planning, Allocation Management, Project Accounting and Asset Management. Clear, effective, and concise communication skills are crucial for the overall success of the role. The role will report to the Director of Enterprise Architecture – Finance Domain, Global Technology (GTO).

What Your Impact Will Be: 

• Design and implement enterprise-level solutions that align with business objectives.
• Create and maintain architecture blueprints primarily in the area of Application Modernization and Cloud based implementation.
• Participate in strategic planning and blueprinting exercises by providing current state knowledge as well as insights into the future direction.
• Make key technology/design decisions affecting large strategic projects with limited information. Must be adept in dealing with systems in all CPG business domains.
• Develops solution designs and leads implementation efforts from an architecture perspective for all Technology Platform projects.
• Ability to strike a balance between practical solutions and alignment with the architectural vision.
• Ability to work closely with multiple development teams to define, select and architect products and services that require significant cross component coordination and ensure alignment with architecture standards.
• Work closely with stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into effective technical solutions.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to development teams.
• Lead integration efforts between different systems and platforms.
• Drive migration strategies to transition from legacy systems to modern technologies.
• Identify and address performance bottlenecks in existing systems.
• Implement best practices for optimizing the performance of applications and infrastructure

Qualifications

What We’re Looking For:

• Bachelor's degree, preferably in a computer science/engineering, information technology or other related field plus 8+ years of related experience as an enterprise/solution architect; and/or equivalent combination of education and experience. Master’s degree preferred.
• Hands-on experience in enterprise data modeling and object-oriented analysis and design (OOAD) resulting in reusable artifacts; including Use Case driven analysis & design and UML diagrams depicting process flows.
• Strong and demonstrable expertise in one or more of the following domains: Demand and Supply Planning, Inventory Management, Manufacturing and Shop Floor Planning and EDI Processes