Solution Architect - Oracle EBS

Job Summary

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.

Solution Architect - Oracle EBS

Columbus, Indiana, US

6-12+ Months

40.00 hours

• 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.

• 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.
• Applying 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 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 responsibility and accountability for outcomes even when things go wrong; is comfortable making difficult decisions.

College, university, or equivalent degree in Information Technology,…