at Medline Industries, Inc. in Libertyville, Illinois, United States
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Job Description
Medline Industries continues to grow, and grow, and grow. In fact, we've enjoyed DOUBLE DIGIT growth in 54 of the past 55 years! And we are AGAIN named as a Chicago Tribune Top Employer!Doesn't that sound like the kind of place you'd want to join?
The IT SAP Architect is a pivotal role, bridging the gap between business requirements and technological solutions that maximize the value of Medlines investments in SAP. This individual collaborates closely with both business and IT leaders, aligning technology initiatives with business strategies. The role involves influencing changes in business models, processes and organizations by providing insightful technology perspectives and analytical approaches to decision-making activities.
The Architect leads in providing analysis and design to implement business solutions, governs the development of high-quality technology solutions across a range of products, systems, and services, and supports business strategies by ensuring the delivery of expected outcomes during project execution. This role also involves maintaining project, program, and team alignment with architectural governance, standards, and best practices, with a special focus on SAP-centric design, integration, transformation (ECC to S/4HANA), and application modernization in the Cloud.
Responsibilities:
- Formulates responses to business needs involving people, process, technology and information
- Serves as a consultant on a broad range of technologies, with a specialized focus on SAP solutions, driving targeted business outcomes while ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture.
- Collaborates with management, business leaders, IT architecture, and other stakeholders to connect the business roadmap with operational decisions, particularly in areas heavily dependent on SAP-integrated solutions.
- Identifies the organizational impact (for example, on skills, processes, structures or culture) and financial impact of the solutions architecture.
- Produces expert analysis, research, and designs for technical solutions that enable business capabilities, processes, and functions.
- Researches and designs implementation strategies for new or alternate technologies that will further business goals and provide competitive advantages.
- Stays abreast of current technology trends both in the industry as a whole and with the applications deployed in the landscape.
- Coaches and collaborates with technical experts and EA peers in SAP and Cloud domains.
- Leads technical design, analysis and realization
- Defines the principles, guidelines, standards and solution patterns to ensure technical decisions are aligned with the enterprise's future-state architecture vision.
- Leads evaluation, design and analysis for the implementation of a solutions architecture across a group of specific business applications or technologies based on enterprise business strategy, business capabilities, value-streams, business requirements and enterprise standards.
- Translates business and technical requirements into an architectural blueprint to achieve business objectives, and documents all architecture design and analysis work.
- Creates architectural designs to guide and contextualize solution development across products, services, projects and systems (including applications, technologies, processes and information) in a way that is directly actionable, clear and unambiguous.
- Designs and directs the governance activities associated...
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