The Architect is responsible for the management of Enterprise Architecture across the Americas, including working with business areas, project teams, and IT technical teams, as well as, outsourced vendors to ensure quality SAP application support and project delivery services. Provides complex or highly complex support of the SAP development tool set, develops software, and coordinates maintenance and enhancement activities to support all aspects of application delivery. This position will be responsible for all development efforts across all SAP systems and modules.
This position is 100% remote.
The primary responsibilities of the Architect include:
- Owns the technical architecture in assigned area of ownership (definition, documentation, roadmap for current and future state, annual)
- Resolves technical issues in areas of ownership
- Ensures that all parts of the technical design are correctly incorporated
- Provides technical support and quality control through all stages of operations and projects
- Plays key roles in the selection, evaluation and implementation of necessary vendors and technologies
Principal Accountabilities
In addition to the following Epson's policies and procedures, principal accountabilities include, but are not limited to:
- Understands company needs to be able to define systems architecture and systems specifications
- Understands present architecture and drive technological features that drive future architectures
- Proposes practical strategies for leveraging technology as enablers for driving IT and Business value
- Responsible for tracking the enterprise architecture portfolio and assists project teams to shape architectures consistent with platforms, roadmaps and standards for architect and design
- Leads the planning and design of the structure of a technology solution \Communicates system requirements to development teams and supports development and implementation
- Leads the evaluation and select appropriate software or hardware and integration methods
- Leads assigned programs and provides guidance to team members
- Owns leading and solving technical problems when they arise
- Ensures the implementation of agreed architecture and infrastructure solutions
- Owns addressing technical concerns, ideas and ongoing improvements
- Monitors systems to ensure they meet both user needs and business goals
- Leads, develops and implements plans to facilitate and coordinate delivery of technical services and support
- Ensures acceptable levels of performance for IT systems to meet business requirements
- Creates and maintains technical and operational documentation
- Stays current with technological developments in the marketplace, new advances and features in technologies
- Ensures systems maintenance plans are developed, planned, executed, tracked and adhered to
- Provides leadership in the change control process aligned with policies and procedures
- Manages reporting in area, enforces adherence to IT departmental guidelines, policies, security, compliance and controls
Experience and Technical skills
- More than 7 years of SAP ABAP development experience for SAP-ECC.
- Experience in at least 3-5 implementation projects (preferably also with S/4)
- Expertise in all areas of WRICEF development including Object oriented development
- Use best practices for ABAP on HANA development and exposure to Fiori.
- Understanding of integration aspects between SAP-ECC and SAP PO
- Desirable experience in Interfaces to integrate with 3rd party solutions(eg Tax, banking…)
- Stay up-to-date: Keep abreast of best practices and industry trends to provide effective technical solutions.
- Collaborate effectively: Be a proactive team player, express roadblocks, and contribute to deliverables.
- Strong communication: Exhibit excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Proven troubleshooting, testing and quality assurance techniques
- Provides suggestions for continuous improvement efforts
- Proficient in the development of documentation to support functional specifications, data flows, etc
- Proven experience in troubleshooting, testing and quality assurance techniques
- Completion of an undergraduate program or equivalent experience
The starting annual base pay for this role is between USD $151,390 and $195,916. Please note that this position’s salary range may include multiple levels. The actual base is dependent upon many factors, such as: training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future.
Epson America, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability and protected veteran status, as well as any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
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