Lead System Architect

•    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