Business Solutions Architect II

Job Description:

Identify and realize opportunities and initiatives in the following areas: Information Systems, Business Process Design, and Continuous Improvement. Analyze existing or proposed systems, to include implementation, integration, monitoring and optimizing strategies, process, systems and methodologies to support department operations, corporate objectives and initiatives. Maintain continued support of the current financial system including upgrades or reimplementation of the platform.

*MIS Management Information System

• Manage early Initiation activities for system solutions to meet business needs for business areas
• Ensure system analysis designs and process maps are documented and communicated with business executives and senior management
• Work closely with business areas globally, define business-centric MIS requirements and evaluate available and/or custom system solution options
• Analyze business and systems needs in terms of functional and technical requirements including MIS, Process Technology and business process solutions portions of proposed solutions
• Mange appropriate action based on proposed solutions
• Work with the custom, packaged, business intelligence, and operations platform project teams on building and executing business systems project plans and support
• Collaborate with internal and external teams to identify key suppliers, strategic alliances, and required process improvements
• Work with business process owners to understand tactical and strategic plans to support business processes and operations
• Identify MIS related user satisfaction issues within assigned business processes
• Communicate issues to MIS management and lead resolution of these issues within MIS
• Provide MIS assistance to production support, including system configuration, system monitoring, and updating interfaces with customer business processes
• May coach other team members to develop stronger functional and technical skills for the applications which they are aligned to support
• Where applicable, lead and motivate Business Analysts and other platform employees
• Stay current on new business processes and/or new technologies that may impact business operations, process and information systems technology and methodology strategies, facilitation techniques and project management concepts
• Perform other duties as requested

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and five (5) years of experience in Information Services, Process Technology field including four (4) years of Project Management experience on medium to large system implementations
• Working knowledge of SOX 404, HAL, Hyperion Enterprise
• Knowledge of requirements development, requirements analysis and operations management

*SOX 404 Sarbanes Oxley Act 404 - SOX 404 top-down risk assessment (TDRA) is a risk assessment procedure in financial auditing of public companies in the United States.

*HAL Hardware abstraction layer

Preferred

• Four (4) years of experience managing IT projects