Shared Data Platforms Solution Architect

The Shared Data Platforms Solution Architect is a member of Shared Data Platform IT group and maintains the architecture (and related artifacts) for data centric applications and systems.  The Solutions Architect is responsible for leading collaboration with Business and IT Stakeholders throughout the organization to design solution architectures that deliver the required business capabilities while being aligned to Sherwin-Williams business and technology strategies. This role specifically is responsible for the systems that handles the data including products, catalogs, suppliers, and customers.

This position translates business capabilities/requirements into specific business, application, information, and technology architectures to deliver business value. The incumbent will need to build relationships with key business and technology stakeholders across the enterprise; be highly collaborative; drive communication to the business, architecture, and software delivery teams; and apply analytical and problem-solving skills to help identify and solve systems problems.

An effective Solutions Architect will have a broad range of technical knowledge and will deliver solution architectures across multiple projects, as well as consultative technical leadership across the organization, from strategic decision making to project planning to architectural governance and oversight. The incumbent should have strong understanding of the technical architecture of the packaged solutions such as Oracle ERP, Oracle SaaS Fusion cloud. This position will work closely with others to grow their base of knowledge, but also share their knowledge with the business and IT teams via collaborative meetings, documentation, and formal presentations.

Essential Functions

 

Strategy & Planning

 

• Leads analysis, evaluation and design of solutions and products that enable our business and technology transformational activities.
• Establish and enforce best practices, architectural patterns, and design principles to ensure the maintainability, scalability, and performance of solutions.
• Expertise in domain information modeling and data landscape optimization/design. Expert in architecting data pipelines.
• Performs studies of potential solutions and prepares design proposals to reflect cost, time, and alternative actions to satisfy existing and future needs related to the employee experience.
• Participate in the enterprise architecture governance, compliance, and security activities to ensure technology solutions are consistent with Sherwin-William’s Technology Strategy.
• Provide strategic, technical and operational expertise and leadership in support of business and technology transformational activities.
• Contribute to technology strategy and planning; lead research on emerging technologies in support of systems development efforts;
• Communicate the Solution Architectures to senior management, business, architecture, and development teams through deliverables, presentations, training and other appropriate means and forums.
• Collaborate and establish alignment with cross-functional teams including Product Managers, Architects, and Developers to ensure the successful implementation of the domain driven solutions.
• Coach, mentor and support system development teams in implementing reference architectures and standards.
• Steer CoE use of Application Security, partnering with Application Security team to identify and support Delivery Teams' realization of requirements in the security space.
• Serve as a bridge between highly technical and highly business-focused teams, facilitating understanding and brokering agreements to shared goals through collaboration.

Acquisition & Deployment

• Possesses Strong functional knowledge on Customer/Vendor Information Management and Customer Data Hub cloud or Supplier Data Hub.
• Experience in Cloud Application Development.
• Experience in designing interfaces for Cloud Integration in multi cloud environment.
• Provide technical oversight for multiple project initiatives.
• Lead technology life-cycle projects including technology evaluation, selection, implementation, support and retirement/replacement.
• Evaluate alternative architectures with respect to their feasibility as well as composition (people, hardware, software, facilities, policies, documents, risks and cost), and make recommendations.
• Develop prototypes of system designs, working with Technical Architects and Delivery Teams, to prove viability where necessary.

 

Operational Management

• Assist in the creation of enterprise-wide technology standards.
• Stay current on features released by Oracle; recommend introduction of new features, or other non-function