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Join our team as Business Process Architect!
You will apply expertise in a business/technical system area to an information technology tool set, in an attempt to automate manual effort. He/She has grown their single-system focus into a cross-functional understanding of how multiple business/technical processes interact with one another. In an attempt to match the capabilities of the current IT technology with business/technical needs, the Architect must strive for a cross-functional, cross-platform solution, and provide guidance to departmental and divisional business/technical management on IT strategies and initiatives.
Your tasks & responsibilities:
You will analyze business/technical needs and translate process into practice through the current Information Technology tool sets. Project involvement is multi-disciplinary and complex in scope. Identify opportunities to enhance existing operations using new IT technology as a replacement for legacy systems manual effort.
Implement new business/technical strategies through configuration interaction and creation of programming specifications. These specifications may be acted upon by the Business Process Architect or turned over to the Information Technology Development staff for assistance.
Conduct full integration testing of new or changed business/technical processes. Develop business/technical cycle tests for use by stakeholder community. Document all process changes and write operational instructions work requirements. This documentation may serve as training material for the Business Process Consultant or stakeholder community.
Troubleshoot, investigate and persist. Develop solutions to problems with unknown causes where precedents do not exist by applying logic and inference with creativity and initiative. Provide cross-functional support and maintenance for responsible business/technical areas. Perform tasks necessary to ensure data and tables are maintained properly and on schedule.
Provide knowledge transfer on current technologies to stakeholders and junior level staff. Provide knowledge transfer on business/technical practice to junior level staff.
Conduct cost/benefit analysis through evaluation of alternative design approaches to determine best-balanced solution. Best-balanced solution is one that satisfies the immediate stakeholder needs, meets system requirements and facilitates subsequent change.
Provide adequate analyses and supporting documentation to enable management to develop effective work plans and project schedules. Track to project plans. Monitor results. Make adjustments to priorities in order to accomplish objectives on time and under budget. Assume leadership role in a small-to-medium size initiative by playing the key contributor, facilitator or group lead.
Your Profile:
• Bachelor Degree in Computer Science, MIS or related discipline or equivalent technical work experience is required.
• Equivalent work experience must include: 10 years general Information Technology experience; 2-5 years specific business/technical process area experience.
• NOTE: In some departments a 4-Year degree or certification may be required for this position.
• Functional work experience or IT support work experience in the specific business/technical process area (2-4 years).
• Functional work experience with specific IT technology is required (2 years).
• Fluent in English
Skills:
- Specific knowledge of the current Office Product suite.
- Specific knowledge of the business/technical process area or IT support knowledge for the specific business/technical process area.
- Specific knowledge of more than one of the current information technology toolsets.
- Specific knowledge of cross-functional business/technical process areas indirectly affected.
- General knowledge of server environment based on Microsoft technology.
- General knowledge of local area networks.
- Developing an understanding of project planning tools.
- Preparation for management presentations concerning project proposals or reporting results.
- Associate must be capable of working under minimal supervision of a Team Lead, Project Lead or Manager. A wide degree of creativity and latitude is required.
- Associate must possess basic leadership, organizational, communication and time management skills.
- Associate must participate as an active team member, providing value-added input that others can learn from. Practice effective listening skills. Practice effective collaboration skills.
- This position interacts with the non-information technology business/technical areas to help prioritize and select enhancements to the IT system.
- This position interacts with information technology development areas by providing written statements of work that translate business/technical requirements into technical specifications.
- This position may also interact with external customers directly. This interaction may take the form of coordinating with a customer’s information technology department for EDI, master data, report data and scheduling of jobs.
Goodyear is one of the world's largest tire companies. It employs about 68,000 people and manufactures its products in 53 facilities in 20 countries around the world. Its two Innovation Centers in Akron, Ohio, and Colmar-Berg, Luxembourg, strive to develop state-of-the-art products and services that set the technology and performance standard for the industry. For more information about Goodyear and its products, go to www.goodyear.com/corporate.