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The Solutions Architect – Transportation is responsible for providing consultation to the Global Information Services (GIS) organization and business units on the relevance and appropriate application of technology. The Solutions Architect will understand the design solutions and business processes that fulfill the business requirements. This position is accountable for ensuring that the application and integration of transportation and other logistics execution technology is done in a manner consistent with the Owens Corning enterprise architecture and standards. This position is responsible for collaborating with and educating others across the organization and supporting technology for transportation related logistics platforms. The successful candidate for this role is a student of technology, maintains market awareness, and is networked into logistics internally and externally. They are accountable for keeping up to date on new and emerging developments in IT solutions and are expected to gain a working level understanding of these technologies by pursuing opportunities to gain practical knowledge through professional events, peer networks, or formal training. The Solutions Architect – Transportation will identify opportunities to integrate new technology with the current environment to address business opportunities. To excel in this role, it is crucial to possess a natural curiosity for technology and a keen interest in researching and defining ways to optimize processes within the logistics domain.
Job Responsibility:
Develop and maintain a strong understanding of Owens Corning specific business processes and operations globally
Build relationships within the organization, cross-functionally, and with key business stakeholders
Collaborate with Domain Architects, peers, and other IS leaders in the development and ongoing sustainment of the 3-year transportation IT Roadmap
Work with process leaders, and project teams to identify and define integration opportunities for the appropriate technologies
Ensure technology that is being delivered is contemporary and aligned with the IT Roadmap
Ensure the performance, support, sustainability, and life cycle management of logistics solutions are engineered in the design stage
Define, design, build and oversee the implementation and rollout of ERP functional solutions based on SAP S/4 HANA for Transportation Management and cloud-based solutions
Work with others to define project scope, based on workshops with business representatives, and knowledge of our landscape and solutions
Ideates on solutions to complex requirements
Reviews blueprints as outlined by the functional subject matter expert, of requirements and solutions
Assists our implementation partner with systems build activities including configuration, master data, investigation of enhancement points, and integrations, and writing functional specifications, unit testing etc
Collaborate with the program and business teams to ensure continuous business and IT alignment with no future gaps
Collaborate with functional and IT teams working closely within the Transportation Management track, especially IT Architecture, Master Data, Procurement, Manufacturing, etc
Own overall inventory of workflows, reports, interfaces, conversions, enhancements and forms (WRICEFs) for the area of TM
Partner with others to maintain an awareness of Owens Corning business strategy to identify opportunities to apply technological solutions to upcoming business problems
Ensures quality assurance on the design and implementation of technology solutions
Design and drive the implementation of seamless and efficient transportation platforms
Collaborate with others to address the feasibility of technology solutions
Identify technical and implementation risks associated with a technology solution
Consult with project planners to develop statements of work for proposed solutions including estimates that address assumptions, resources, integration points and risks for transportation solutions
Leads execution technology assessments & POCs within transportation function(s)
Manage external providers of development capacity as needed
Aligns and updates OC Enterprise Reference Model for business processes within the domain
Maintain the functional specification architecture documentation including the OC Enterprise Reference Model for all transportation process areas
Identify areas of waste (process, time, etc.) and ideate and execute action plans to create productivity
Lead or participate in special projects that support the long-term strategic goals of the business and/or organization
Identify opportunities to improve effectiveness, value, and perception of the function
Invest in personal growth and development, clearly focused on self-learning
Provide guidance to early career engineers and offer technical mentoring as they progress in their professional development
Always strive to elevate the capabilities of the team and GIS organization across the company, drive change management, and technology adoption
Requirements:
Bachelor's degree in computer science, management information systems (MIS), or equivalent degree
Minimum of 8 years of experience within Information Technology industry
Minimum of 5 years of experience with SAP Logistics Execution, Sales & Distribution
Minimum of 5 years of experience with SAP Transportation Management (9.0 or higher)
Prior SAP/ECC.6.0 and TM 9.0 and greater deployment experience in all phases of the ASAP methodology
Prior experience with SAP TM Event Manager
Prior experience with SAP S4 HANA / SAP Cloud Applications preferred
Nice to have:
Prior experience with SAP S4 HANA / SAP Cloud Applications preferred