at Celestica in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Req ID: 121149
Remote Position: Yes
Region: Americas
Country: USA
General Overview
Functional Area: Information Technology (ITM)
Career Stream: Enterprise Architecture (ARCH)
Role: Senior Architect (SAR)
Job Title: Senior Architect, IT Enterprise Solutions
Job Code: SAR-ITM-ARCS
Job Level: Band 11
Direct/Indirect Indicator: Indirect
Summary
The Senior Architect, IT Enterprise Solutions is a member of the Enterprise Architecture team, and is responsible for reviewing business requirements brought forward by the IT Business Partners to help propose and design a high-level IT solution when its required to span across multiple Celestica IT platforms. They will ensure that the solution is aligned to business strategy and incorporates best practices. This may involve using a reference architecture or creating a new reference architecture. In situations where the high-level solution requires the introduction of new technologies, the Senior Architect, IT Enterprise Solutions will engage the appropriate IT domain Architects to identify, evaluate and select a new technical solution. The Senior Architect, IT Enterprise Solutions will facilitate the preparation of the initial sizing based on the high-level design by involving all the necessary IT Platform CoE subject matter experts as required. The Senior Architect, IT Enterprise Solutions will use their position and experience to gauge the appropriateness and accuracy of the sizing inputs from the various platform teams to ensure the total sizing is valid and can be justified back to the business stakeholders.
Detailed Description
Performs tasks such as, but not limited to, the following:
+ Define and design solutions to address specific needs of functional area or process, are aligned with the business strategy and incorporate Best Practices
+ Facilitate the preparation of sizing based on the high-level design by involves all necessary parties, evaluate the accuracy of the sizing inputs and provide justification to business stakeholders
+ Use reference architecture or create a new reference architecture in order to meet business requirements and design a high-level IT solution
+ Participate in various projects, apply project management processes and assist senior team members in establishing project guidelines
+ Act as the Technical Delivery Lead – review high level business requirements, define technical problems, develop solutions/recommendations and engage the necessary parties to be involved
Knowledge/Skills/Competencies
+ Excellent project management skills
+ Identifying and analyzing information or problems to reach the optimum solution for a defined situation or problem
+ In situations of receiving vague requirements, performs user requirements gathering, prioritization and analysis independently within established guidelines
+ Leads design / blueprint process for small projects and develops specifications
+ When required in special circumstances, has the ability to coordinate design/blueprint phase from initiation to implementation, especially for enterprise-wide projects
+ Able to communicate data analysis, reporting and dashboarding requirements to a development team
+ Presents information of technical nature to clients, users and non-technical staff effectively
+ Interfaces directly with client community to define and complete assignments to assure mutual acceptance
+ Ability to complete a requirements definition statement, e.g., RFP, map requirements to a product or service solution, and to evaluate qualitatively / quantitatively the ability of the solution to meet requirements. Additionally, the ability to support the purchasing process.
+ Selects the best tool from IT’s application landscape to use a building blocks to construct a cross-platform solution
+ Proactively seeks out opportunities to expand knowledge of industry best practices and state-of-the-art tools for to support a wide variety of business processes
+ Understands the organization structure and high level functions.
+ Excellent decision making skills
+ Demonstrates leadership skills and promotes cooperation, cohesiveness, and team morale
+ Identifies symptoms of inefficient or non-value adding processes and tools
Physical Demands
+ Duties of this position are performed in a normal office environment.
+ Duties may require extended periods of sitting and sustained visual concentration on a computer monitor or on numbers and other detailed data. Repetitive manual movements (e.g., data entry, using a computer mouse, using a calculator, etc.) are frequently required.
Typical Experience
+ 10+ years of experience in working with enterprise applications related to Supply Chain Management and Manufacturing operations, with a detailed understanding of how these applications enable business processes
+ Detailed understanding of how business processes span across multiple IT applications and how changes to meet new business requirements can have a potential impact to upstream or downstream applications.
+ 7+ years experience in being able to solicit detailed business requirements from business stakeholders and translate those into IT system requirements
+ 5+ years experience in people management
+ A strong understanding of Project Management processes and methodologies to be able to plan out a rough project schedule required to implement new system changes
+ Proven track record of driving and leading large-scale architectural or delivery projects throughout an entire business through to completion across multiple business and functional domains (i.e. Manufacturing, Supply Chain, etc.)
+ Exposure to various aspects of architecture practices: frameworks, business, application, data, security, infrastructure and governance
Typical Education
+ Bachelor’s degree in related field, or consideration of an equivalent combination of education and experiency.
+ Educational requirements may vary by geography.
Notes
This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities of the position. Employees are held accountable for all duties of the job. Job duties and the % of time identified for any function are subject to change at any time.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
Celestica’s policy on equal employment opportunity prohibits discrimination based on race, color, creed, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran or disability status, or other characteristics protected by law.
This policy applies to hiring, promotion, discharge, pay, fringe benefits, job training, classification, referral and other aspects of employment and also states that retaliation against a person who files a charge of discrimination, participates in a discrimination proceeding, or otherwise opposes an unlawful employment practice will not be tolerated. All information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Location: This is a remote position, with travel as necessary. We are open to considering candidates close to any of our US locations in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Texas, Arizona, Oregon or California as well as locations near major airports such as the Northeast, Southeast, Midwest and Pacific Coast.
COMPANY OVERVIEW:
Celestica (NYSE, TSX: CLS) enables the world’s best brands. Through our recognized customer-centric approach, we partner with leading companies in Aerospace and Defense, Communications, Enterprise, HealthTech, Industrial, Capital Equipment and Energy to deliver solutions for their most complex challenges. As a lead
