SAP Lead System Architect

Job Description

Creates system architecture artifacts in alignment with business and IT objectives.

Creates architecture documentations to reference to other vendors and global initiatives.

Research, design, and integrate new solutions, determining scope and impact in diverse and complex environments.

Collaborate with the EA team to validate and certify current and future state architectural models and assess potential impact across all enterprise systems.

Identify use cases for technical capabilities, lead and conduct hands-on evaluations and develop value proposition for new products and services.

Maintains in-depth knowledge of next-gen designs, and trends and threats.

Build and maintain effective relationships with management, peers, product owner and internal stakeholders.

Build and maintain up to date and clear documentations of current infrastructure and system process flows.

Provides strong leadership and direction to team members and mentors other teammates.

Collaborates with the Product Owners and identifies the enablers and provides acceptance criteria for the technical enablers.

Develops technical design artifacts

Participates in PI planning and presents the plan along with the product owner

Owns and prioritizes the backlog for the Architecture runway team

Manages dependencies and ensures that the enablers are delivered on time.

Has good understanding or has ability to quickly develop good understanding of the Bridgestone processes

Has good understanding or has ability to quickly develop good understanding of the Bridgestone systems, especially SAP Commerce, AWS, Akamai, ADO, Adobe campaign, SAP ECC, SAP PO & Mulesoft

Responsible for overall quality of code delivered by developers and ensures that the code merge process is adhered to

Has excellent understanding of Java, spring, angular, JS, containerization, commerce cloud and AWS lambda services and Api frameworks.

Qualifications:

Greater than 5 years of industry experience representing technical viewpoints to diverse audiences and in making timely and prudent technical security decisions.

Greater than 5 years of industry experience with enterprise systems and working across cross-functional team to implement solutions.

Ability to work independently with minimal direction; self-starter/self-motivated

Knowledge of ERP Applications (SAP, Workday, etc.) functional modules, integration points and technologies

5 years of experience in post-production support and/or full life cycle implementations of the SAP On-premise Payroll, Manufacturing, Union/Non Union environments or Retail sector.

5 years of experience within HRIS/Payroll Information Systems team

Leading integration projects between SAP HCM and other platforms while providing keen attention to data consistency, quality and accuracy.

Exposure to other modules of SAP HCM including Benefits, Personnel Administration, Time, Compensation, and the integration of HCM modules.

Experience managing the tax configuration for multiple states across USA including California, Pennsylvania, and Ohio

Experience with Labor Management and/or Time & Attendance systems

Minimum Qualifications

Typically requires a minimum of 5 years of related experience with a bachelor's degree; or 3 years and a master's degree; or a PhD without experience; or equivalent work experience

What are the 3-4 non-negotiable requirements of this position?

Qualifications:

Greater than 5 years of industry experience representing technical viewpoints to diverse audiences and in making timely and prudent technical security decisions.

Greater than 5 years of industry experience with enterprise systems and working across cross-functional team to implement solutions.

Ability to work independently with minimal direction; self-starter/self-motivated

Knowledge of ERP Applications (SAP, Workday, etc.) functional modules, integration points and technologies

5 years of experience in post-production support and/or full life cycle implementations of the SAP On-premise Payroll, Manufacturing, Union/Non Union environments or Retail sector.

5 years of experience within HRIS/Payroll Information Systems team

Leading integration projects between SAP HCM and other platforms while providing keen attention to data consistency, quality and accuracy.

Exposure to other modules of SAP HCM including Benefits, Personnel Administration, Time, Compensation, and the integration of HCM modules.

Experience managing the tax configuration for multiple states across USA including California, Pennsylvania, and Ohio

Experience with Labor Management and/or Time & Attendance systems

What are the nice-to-have skills?

Typically requires a minimum of 8 years of related experience with a bachelor's degree; or 6 years and a master's degree; or a PhD with 3 years of experience; or equivalent work experience