Enterprise Architect - Remote; Quebec)

Position: Enterprise Architect - Remote (Quebec)
Job

Requisition :  16612

Senior Architect – SAP
Montreal, QC

Location

Location:

Montreal, QC, CA, H2W 2R2

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt  is a global learning company with the mission of changing people's lives by fostering passionate, curious learners. Among the world's largest providers of pre-K
-12 education solutions, HMH combines cutting-edge research, editorial excellence, and technological innovation to improve teaching and learning environments and solve complex literacy and education challenges. HMH's interactive, results-driven education solutions are utilized by 50 million students in over 150 countries, and its renowned and awarded novels, non-fiction, children's books and reference works are enjoyed by readers throughout the world.

As a  Senior Architect  your primary responsibilities will include architecting HMH 's new future back-office ecosystem to meet the company’s digital first strategy. This exciting opportunity spans our SAP ERP and Financial Systems landscape.

To succeed in this role, you should know how to assess business capabilities, non-functional system requirements, execute gap analysis exercises, and assess tools and technology. Architect solid technical solutions by following industry standards and best practices with a focus on the complete enterprise. The ideal candidate will also have proven experience in SAP ERP (ECC and S4

HANA) with excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities. The ability to develop options, and provide comparative analyses is critical.

Duties & Responsibilities

Leads evaluation, design and analysis for the implementation of a solutions architecture across a group of specific business applications or technologies, based on enterprise business strategies, business capabilities, value streams, business requirements and enterprise standards.

Creates architectural designs to guide and contextualize solution development across services, projects and systems (including applications, technologies, processes and information).

Define and assess HMH’s new back-office tools and applications to meet business capabilities and HMH’s digital first focus.

Aligning IT investment with HMH’s business priorities. Assess near-term and long-term needs, to establish business IT investment priorities.

Provides internal management consultancy services to both IT and business leaders, helping them with innovation management and IT investment analysis.

Assures technology projects are architected to deliver reliable, interoperable and sustainable outcomes aligned with the HMH IT road map

Facilitates enterprise strategy development, including environmental analysis, opportunity identification, technology and business cases, and innovation road-maps.

Promote economy of scale decisions made around a common architecture with the following goals: effectiveness, efficiency, agility, and continuity of complex business operations.

Drives new business capabilities through technology by executing proof of concepts (POC) to accelerate innovation at HMH

Develop technology standards and guidelines, also help define governance and policy.

Constructs deliverables that demonstrate how to move the business toward realizing its strategic goals and targeted business outcomes.

Researches and provides information on emerging technology trends and disruptions relevant to assigned line of business.

Participates in development and application of principles, standards and minimal viable architectures through the EA governance model, informed by the business strategy and corporate governance.

Skills and Qualifications

Minimum of 7 years of experience in at least two IT solution development disciplines, including technical or infrastructure architecture, network management, application development,…