Senior Solutions Architect - Manufacturing and OT

<p>Further your career at Ball, a world leader in manufacturing sustainable aluminium packaging. Achieve extraordinary things when you join our team, and make a difference in your professional development, the community, and around the globe!</p> <p>Position overview:</p> <p> </p> <p>The Senior Solution Architect (SA) is responsible for the work of a team of cross-functional SAs within a community of practice.  This leader is responsible for the process of developing solution architectures and designs that are responsive to business needs while consistent with long term architectures of IT.  The Senior SA is committed to nurturing and assuring the requisite talent across the solution architecture community of practice to accomplish that team’s goals and missions, ensuring that technology solutions meet business requirements and aligned to key deliverables, process, and enterprise architectural requirements while aligning with long-term architectural goals.  In addition, the Senior SA is responsible for evaluating and selecting the technologies required to support those technology solution plans. The Senior SA also provides direction and technical leadership across Ball IT domains.</p> <p>This position will have a primary focus on developing, implementing, and maintaining IT solutions and strategies that optimize and enhance manufacturing controls and Operational Technology (OT). The individual will use their expert knowledge of OT systems, production control systems, automation, information technology, and manufacturing processes to design, manage, and deliver solutions that align with our strategic objectives.</p> <p> </p> <p>Key responsibilities include:</p> <p> </p> <p>•    Design and help implement comprehensive IT solutions that enhance manufacturing controls and Operational Technology (OT)</p> <p>•    Provide leadership to the solution architecture community of practice to drive end-to-end solution architecture integrity and the functional relationship with other projects and/or applications consistent with long term architectural roadmap</p> <p>•    Provide technical leadership to the business partners by interacting directly with senior business leaders to develop the technical dimensions of a solution that meets the needs of the business with a focus in Manufacturing Systems<br/> •    Clearly communicate with business leaders to describe the technical solution comprehensively, and address questions from the business users to assure their comfort with the technical solution<br/> •    Understand current technology, solutions, and industry trends and conceptualize solutions that address business needs, opportunities and issues. Facilitate discussion on solution options/alternatives and associated impacts<br/> •    Support the enterprise architecture team by providing input into the long term architectural vision for systems and platforms that have an impact on the capability/service delivery area<br/> •    Validate the alignment of solutions with corporate standards and compliance requirements<br/> •    In collaboration with BCs ensure that capability map, roadmap of technologies aligned to capabilities, and application inventory/lifecycle/TCO established<br/> •    Maintain knowledge of technical products and services in order to assess impact to production environment of proposed design (inclusive of applications and infrastructure)<br/> •    Provide technical guidance to develop solution ideas and provide input for internal delivery teams and/or suppliers in developing solution delivery estimates<br/> •    Review and approve solutions such that the technical requirements are complete, thorough, and representative of all business requirements<br/> •    Understand methods and practices for solution development/build in order to support holistic technical requirements for the solution, inclusive of configuration security, and quality<br/> •    Drive the preparation for the architectural review process (e.g., ARB) to facilitate discussions regarding necessary modifications to project solution architecture to overcome design challenges or deviations observed in project design</p> <p> </p> <p>Experience and skills required:</p> <p> </p> <p>•    Technical Competencies in: Data Connectivity Edge Computing, IIOT, SDK and API, Networking, Industrial Machines Technical Understanding</p> <p>•    BA/BS in Computer Science, Engineering or similar </p> <p>•    5+ years of experience as a Solution Architect </p> <p>•    Minimum 10 total years’ experience in other technical roles such as developer or system analyst </p> <p>•    Experience with analysis level tools for: activity diagrams, business use cases, business rules, and system level features </p> <p>•    Experience managing teams of solution architects in the delivery and implementation of software systems and platforms</p> <p>•    Strong consultative skills at a cross functional level </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p><br/>  </p>