Job Description :
The DBI Solution Architect is a skilled professional who understands both technical and functional design and brings perspective from all architecture domains (process, application, data, technology and security) into the solution design in support of Client business and functional portfolio capabilities. This position ensures solutions developed are aligned to enterprise architecture standards and principles, leverage common solutions and services, and meet the financial targets (cost and benefits This position is accountable for solution evaluation and early-phase project estimates which contribute to the business case.
The DBI Solution Architect position is also responsible for staying current with emerging business and technology trends, promoting the ‘art of the possible’, and driving innovation investments throughout Client. This role is able to facilitate the difficult conversations involving balancing corporate strategies and local business requirements. This requires an ability to see multiple perspectives, steer discussions towards fact-based comparisons, and drive significant net value for the enterprise.
The DBI Solution Architects, as a team, own the creation, integration, maintenance and integrity of the Client DBI architecture for all solutions, encompassing global business capabilities enabled by the Client enterprise application landscape.
75% Architecture Planning, Design and Development
Develops and maintains DBI solution architecture by leading solution definition, solution architecture reviews, and solution selection efforts
Acts as a part of the broader Client Architecture community to define and execute architecture processes
Develops and maintains conceptual DBI solution architecture for Client businesses and functions’ portfolios
Responsible for understanding the strategy across businesses and functions on the capabilities provided within their portfolio and translating that into an architecture plan
Responsible for the DBI solution architecture for all business and functions’ capabilities and associated roadmap
Responsible for governance to the DBI architecture plans for the portfolios
Ensures portfolio DBI solution architecture aligns with Enterprise Architecture standards/principles and patterns
Provides strategic consultation and recommendations for SAP extended ECM design/architecture
Provides support and consultation for detailed design, deployment and production support
Comfortable spanning multiple project at the same time
Involved in complex, high risk, high visibility projects and new technology enablements
Responsible for creation of high-level estimates for prospective DBI solutions as part of the Client IT Demand Management Process
10% Architecture Assurance
Manage adherence to defined standards throughout the design, development and implementation processes
Review new projects and architecture solutions, ensuring they are aligned with the enterprise architecture and meet financial targets
Champion data as a corporate asset, ensuring the value realization of the investments Client is making in the data and information areas are captured
10% IT Innovation & Delivery
Maintains extensive knowledge of industry trends, and utilizes this knowledge to educate both IT and business stakeholders on opportunities to build better solution architectures that support and drive business decisions
Drives improvement of architecture methodologies and services. Supports implementation, improvements and proper utilization of architecture tools. Ensures the quality of architecture assets, and keeps them up-to-date. Develops and maintains architecture metrics
Participates in routine and non-routine construction, automation, and implementation activities, ensuring successful implementation with architectural and operational requirement are met
Provides technical oversight to others resolving complex technical issues
5% Business Partnership
Work with businesses to establish clear connections between business goals and strategies, process, data and technology investments required to achieve them
Partner with the business leadership to understand how data will be leveraged as a competitive advantage and promote architectural methods and solutions to enable business value (e.g. using big data to drive predictive analytics and improve the customer experience)
Provide recommendations for business capabilities, data and business intelligence design, interfaces during the design and ongoing care of solutions
Regularly interface with other architects, analysts, data engineers, business relationship managers and enterprise subject matter experts to understand and evaluate business and functions’ portfolio capability needs
Assist in the definition of the architecture and technology opportunities of the portfolios based on new and emerging technologies
Required Qualifications
Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related field, or equivalent experience
7+ years of SAP xECM architecture, development and/or management experience
Experience working in a fast paced and challenging environment, with multiple complex projects going on at one time
Experience troubleshooting and resolving complex issues
Experience performing design and development reviews
Experience balancing priorities between multiple complex projects concurrently
Demonstrated ability to define architectural concepts and standards
Understanding of content management technology; current on new ideas and tools
Experience architecting and designing SAP, SAP xECM, and Data Archiving solutions
Experience architecting and designing SAP VIM and ICC solutions
Experience with and deep understanding of OpenText ArchiveLink, ECM Link
Experience with Enterprise Scan and OCC
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Proficiency in SAP functional processes
Business fluency in English