Senior Functional Solutions Architect

About us
Quaker Houghton is a global publicly traded company specializing in chemical specialties, process fluids, lubricants, and coatings for the manufacturing industry, with corporate headquarters in Conshohocken, PA. We are dedicated to career growth, competitive compensation, and benefit programs.

The Senior Functional Solutions Architect will align technology solutions with the strategic initiatives of assigned business units, focusing primarily on Finance and Supply Chain. Reporting to the Senior Manager, Functional Solutions, this role is a key member of the BTS Finance & Supply Chain team. It requires a strategic thinker who can communicate and collaborate with business units and Digital Information Technology leadership to drive innovation and efficiency.

The role involves translating business challenges into actionable digital or process solutions, leading development of platforms and applications, strong project management, and deep business analysis, with emphasis on user experience, long-term needs, and balancing project management with business analysis capabilities.

• Partner with assigned business unit leadership, understand business needs, and implement technology solutions aligned with strategic initiatives.
• Perform stakeholder management, change management and communication including executive presentations, status reporting, training and project engagement activities.
• Collaborate with internal partners to gather requirements, implement, test, deploy and support technology solutions, ensuring scalability and supportability.
• Identify opportunities to streamline processes, improve system efficiency, and enhance user experience through ongoing evaluation and optimization.
• Manage stakeholder expectations, identify gaps between needs and current capabilities, and develop innovative solutions to close those gaps.
• Serve as DIT point-of-contact for the assigned functional area; assist subject matter experts with data integrity, testing, and analysis of data flows for process improvement opportunities.
• Own end-to-end product management for assigned business applications and ERP-enabled processes (JD Edwards), ensuring alignment between the technical platform, business strategy, and end-user needs.
• Contribute to the development of a cohesive strategic roadmap from diverse inputs (demand, ideas, business strategy, DIT strategy).
• Own project outcomes and successful adoption within the assigned business unit.
• Lead multiple concurrent DIT projects with Finance and Supply Chain, managing scope, quality, budget, schedule and risk to meet objectives.
• Gather business requirements for DIT solutions including business cases, ROI analysis, and functional specifications.
• Guide solution architecture, design, build, and functional testing to deliver best-in-class technology solutions.
• Ensure adherence to project schedules and collaborate to set technology priorities and long-term planning.
• Collaborate with architecture, Technical Solutions and Infrastructure & Operations teams to ensure solution compatibility with standards, strategy and service model.
• Support business counterparts on ongoing processes including issue triage and coordinating resolution around core ERP and satellite applications.
• Manage the transition of new solutions to support through development of knowledge base articles for Tier 1 support and providing Tier 2/3 support as appropriate.

• A bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Business Administration, Computer Science, or related field.

• 10+ years’ experience in Finance and Supply Chain systems, including implementation and operational support in a large, multi-faceted organization.
• 7+ years’ experience with JD Edwards ERP Financial and Supply Chain applications, business processes, and reporting.
• Subject matter expertise and substantial experience in system and process support for Financial and Supply Chain systems.
• Conceptual expertise in implementing secure and sustainable architecture and processes.
• Strategic and creative thinking/problem solving that creates…