Full Time opportunity.
Location: Long Island, NY Salary: 180k + benefits POSITION SUMMARY: Translate the business vision, strategy and goals into an actionable plan for people, processes, governance, information and technology to support the creation of new and improved capabilities for the business in the future. Ensure that the SAP solutions strategy is aligned with the business strategy and the Global Information Systems (GIS) strategy. Drive collaboration with the process and technical teams toward commonly agreed-to standards and expectations. Provide insight to the business (in partnership with Business Relationship Managers) on emerging technologies and trends that warrant consideration into the business strategy. Provide process governance, guidance and evolve the maturity of the GIS Processes Framework. Educate and mentor technical staff in the areas of SAP standards, best practices, emerging technologies and business trends. Responsible for maintaining centralized documentation of agreed to standards, core architectural blueprints, design patterns and policies. Identify opportunities and deliver capabilities that allow for repeatability and reuse within the design, development and support of software-based solutions. Perform in a project management role, when necessary, to ensure the timely completion within budget for selected enterprise SAP efforts. Oversee the negotiation of vendor relationships for SAP related applications as well as the direct management of vendor resources on SAP projects where applicable. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: * Establish and maintain a professional and constructive rapport with Client’s executives, business partners, and colleagues. Must be capable of communicating technical issues, options and design alternatives within the context of business fundamentals, processes and options. Must be able to “translate” technical jargon into business language and “interpret” business challenges, requests and questions into technical actions. * Act as a primary point of contact for the SAP enterprise roadmap, strategy, architecture and governance. * Responsible for the efficacy of models, process designs, strategic and technology roadmaps, and emerging technology and business trends. Support and maintain the Corporate Enterprise Model. * Develop and maintain guidelines, principles, policies, standards, reference models and best practices for all matters related to SAP Architecture. * Leverages technical expertise, tools and intellectual property across the global enterprise to enable reuse, reduce costs and increase the quality of solutions provided to the business. Be a proponent of LEAN, Agile Development and Service Oriented and Event Driven Architectures. * Ensure that designed solutions, services and processes follow corporate standards, guidelines and industry best practices. * Responsible for the planning, estimating, tracking and management of medium to large and complex projects undertaken by the Enterprise Architecture team. Provides architectural advice and design consulting during a project’s lifecycle. Qualifications: · Undergraduate Or Graduate Degree In Computer Science/Information/Technology/Business Information Systems Is Preferred. · Minimum of eight years of successful SAP implementation experience in the CPG industry or across multiple industries preferred. Experience must include hands-on SAP technical and business systems design experience with strength in analysis, design and architecture. Managerial and/or business management experience a plus. · Deep understanding of the capabilities and functionality provided by SAP systems, modules, environments, technical platforms, architectural patterns, data center infrastructure components and network infrastructures. Familiarity with industry best practices (ex: ITIL), standards (ex: ISO 9000) and frameworks (ex: TOGAF) will be considered. · Demonstrable expertise in design, development and implementation of at least 4 of the following SAP modules and/or technologies: FICO, SRM, SD, SCM, APO, BI, MM, CRM, Enterprise Portal, Netweaver, MDM, XI, Solution Manager, SAP J2EE, Development Toolkit (ABAP, BAPI’s, BADI’s, User Exits, Output Management Tools). Java and .Net application development knowledge and their interoperability with SAP products preferred. · A good understanding of the SAP Quick Sizer process to ensure SAP Systems are sized in accordance with the business requirements. Demonstrable experience in project management, planning and estimation. Familiarity with financial and investment measures and metrics. · Good interpersonal skills. Strong verbal and written communication skills are a must. · Due to the globalization of business solutions the candidate must be able and willing to travel. This may include international travel. Thanks Sandeep Sandeep Jain Software People Inc. www.softwarepeople.us [email protected] Ph: 631-863-0299, 631-410-4741, 631-921-2111 © Fax: 631-574-3122 Certifications: SBA 8a/SDB, NJ MWBE, NY MWBE, VA SWaM, DE OMWBE, MA MWBE -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Exact Match" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/exact-match. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
