Responsibilities:
- Lead the development of application architectures for complex systems, ensuring consistency with specified requirements agreed with both external and internal customers
- Take full responsibility for the balance between functional, service quality and systems management requirements within a significant area of the organization
- Support the establishment of policy and strategy for the selection of systems architecture components, and co-ordinates design activities, promoting the discipline to ensure consistency. Ensures that appropriate standards (corporate, industry, national and international) are adhered to
- Contribute to the creation and review of a systems capability strategy for responsible area to meet the strategic requirements of the business
- Develop models and plans to drive forward the strategy, taking advantage of opportunities to improve business performance
- Take responsibility for investigative work to determine requirements and specify effective business processes, through improvements in information systems, data management, practices, procedures, organization and equipment
- Provide leadership and guidelines for responsible area to promote the development and exploitation of IT technologies for next generation practices in the complex capital equipment manufacturing business
- Collaborate with Enterprise Architect, Digital and Data architect, Infrastructure architect and IT Security architect to identify synergies and dependencies in IT roadmap to avoid unnecessary reworks
- Drives the development and recruitment of application architecture and solution design competency and capability set that meets the company needs
- Analyse business processes; identifies alternative solutions, assesses feasibility, and recommends new approaches, typically seeking to exploit technology components.
- Evaluates the financial, cultural, technological, organizational and environmental factors which must be addressed in the change programme
- Establishes client requirements for the implementation of significant changes in organizational mission, business functions and process, organizational roles and responsibilities, and scope or nature of service delivery
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
- Over 15 years of relevant experience including experience in leading fully cycle project roll-out with finance system
- Experience in implementing SAP S/4HANA and Anaplan
- Strong understanding of financial processes, regulations, and compliance requirements
- Excellent communication skills to interact with stakeholders at all levels and convey technical concepts to non-technical audiences
- Problem-solving and analytical mindset, capable of identifying and resolving complex technical challenges
