IT Solution Architect, Supply Chain Planning

Requisition Number: 50362

Corning is one of the world’s leading innovators in materials science. For more than 160 years, Corning has applied its unparalleled expertise in specialty glass, ceramics, and optical physics to develop products that have created new industries and transformed people’s lives.

Corning succeeds through sustained investment in R&D, a unique combination of material and process innovation, and close collaboration with customers to solve tough technology challenges.

The global Information Technology (IT) Function is leading efforts to align IT and Business Strategy, leverage IT investments, and optimize end to end business processes and associated information integration technologies. Through these efforts, IT helps to improve the competitive position of Corning's businesses through IT enabled processes. IT also delivers Information Technology applications, infrastructure, and project services in a cost efficient manner to Corning worldwide.

Location:Corning, NY – Charlotte, NC – Possible Remote

Scope of Position:Corning IT is seeking an exceptional professional with strong leadership skills to join our team as a Solution Architect IT Supply Chain and Finance Execution team. The Supply Chain Execution team within Corning includes all applications that help run a business including Supply Chain and Finance ERP systems and other applications that support these ERP systems in the business modules such as Planning, Manufacturing, Distribution, Sales, Accounting, Corporate Performance Management, Procurement and Human Resource Management. The ideal Solution Architect will operate largely independently in meeting defined objectives and goals. He/She will possess deep subject matter expertise in the business and technical architecture of end-to-end Integrated Business Planning, including ERP and other applications that form the scope of Enterprise Business Solutions (EBS). They will be expected to develop direction for technology with strategic alignment to the needs of the enterprise. Working in conjunction with the Service Line, Business Engagement, Enterprise Architects and IT Leadership, the Solutions Architect will propose and set enterprise wide technology architecture direction and influence investments in those technology areas. The Solution Architect will translate business and service line requirements into practical IT service architectures that meet business partner needs and are fully aligned with enterprise architecture guidelines. The Solution Architect will work with SAP Max Attention Architect and Corning Enterprise Architect to define a business and application multi-year technology and capability roadmap. The SA will manage architecture participation in and documentation of Max Attention services. At a high level, the Solutions Architect’s focus will be:

• Long-term technology planning: 10 -15%
• Technology Effectiveness confirmation and execution 70 – 80%
• Enterprise level Leadership and Influence: 10- 15%

Role and Responsibilities:

• Partner with IT and business stakeholders across the enterprise to provide input into the development and execution of EBS strategy.
• Collaborate with Service Lines, Enterprise Architects and Business Engagement to translate business requirements and IT enterprise architecture into well-defined technical solutions/requirements
• Create and maintain solutions roadmaps for use in defining and shaping Service Line strategies
• Identify and recommend solution architecture that effectively meets business needs, risk/regulatory compliance requirements and fully supports Service Line and IT function strategy
• Provide directionally accurate cost estimates for use in business case development
• Assist with the development and encourage the adoption of reference architectures and reusable patterns to facilitate the standardization of solution design, deployment, and risk/compliance
• 德velop and maintain a detailed understanding of the solutions landscape within an assigned domain of technical expertise
• 德velop design principles, design patterns, position papers and Proof of concepts to define technology and capability direction/introduction in alignment with enterprise architecture goals.
• Provides input into the prioritization of strategic IT investments and introduction of new capability in the EBS area.
• Provide guidance and oversight to project and engineering teams in the build, test and deployment of technical solutions
• Participate and lead project design sessions to develop end to end solutions for complex business problems. Challenge status-quo and think out of the box to device innovative solutions for such problems.
• Coach/mentor members of IT as necessary. Align with and influence teams to grow/enterprise architecture skills and perspective
• Troubleshooting: investigate, analyze, and solve problems
• Handle changes or emergency transports as needed for high priority issues
• Coordinate with SAP basis team on the implementation of technical objects in SAP to provided enhancements, bug fixes, OSS notes, Support packages and System upgrades of software components installed
• 不断扩大的广度和深度f technology expertise to include applied research.
• Maintain relationships with key vendors to understand the market trends and direction of associated technologies

Education/Work Experience Requirement:

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Engineering discipline, Business, IT management, computer science, computer engineering, or management information systems with five years relevant experience.
• SAP Functional Certifications and/or Experience, including SAP certification in IBP planning
• 10 years of IT or equivalent business/industry work experience in a relevant subject area.

Required Skills and Experience:

• Extensive knowledge of general Planning and ERP concepts, trends, and industry best practices.
• Strong working knowledge of business processes across supply chain, planning, and scheduling.
• Very deep understanding of various business data domains (e.g. Sales, Supply Chain, Planning, Manufacturing)
• Extensive experience in working on large scale, mission critical deployment projects (SAP a plus).
• Experience architecting, implementing, and optimizing IBP systems to business requirements for at least 2 IBP modules.
• Knowledge of SAP IBP best practices implementation approach.
• Strong proficiency in the concepts, processes, techniques and tools surrounding IBP S&OP, Demand, Response & Supply, Inventory, DDMRP, and Control Tower
• Knowledge and experience with SAP SCM-APO, SAP ECC and/or S/4HANA
• MPS/PPDS experience for end-to-end planning and scheduling capabilities and solutions.
• Knowledge of CPI-DS integration, optimizing process string construction for data load efficiency
• Knowledge of IAS, Jam/WorkZone and Co-Pilot for IBP
• Strong knowledge of multi-tier SAP applications architecture and related infrastructure components.
• Knowledge of integration points between SAP modules and Corning systems (ie MES - manufacturing)
• Knowledge of enterprise integration and ETL tools, along with a good grasp of SOA concepts.
• Knowledge of reporting and analytics concepts and tools
• Exposure to Cloud concepts and delivery of business capability via SaaS model
• Solutions proposal development
• Business case development
• Strong communication and engagement skills
• 领导和管理变更
• 德monstrated ability to effectively communicate with Business and IT management on business matters blending technical and non-technical perspectives and discuss complex concepts in simple terms.
• Significant experience in achieving positive results among staff at all levels of the organization through demonstrated ability in developing consultative relationships.
• 德monstrated success working collaboratively with individuals and teams across the company, specifically executives and key stakeholders, utilizing influence, persuasion, leadership, negotiation, and group facilitation skills.
• 德monstrated ability to grasp big picture with ability to transfer business requirements to solution design.
• Strongly Self-motivated and guided.
• Experience in implementation projects as well as in support
• 德ep understanding of the processes supported by SAP considered best practices
• Solid technical background: Ability to understand complex SAP programs, to use SAP tools
• Strategic agility and managing ambiguous conditions
• 展示对成功的热情完成要求ed tasks while maintaining a positive attitude.

德sired Skills:

• Experience integrating with Pricing applications like Model-N and Vendavo a plus
• Experience integrating SAP with commercial applications like SalesForce.com a plus
• SAP S/4 and ECC experience to support our global S/4 rollout
• Experience in S/4 HANA 1709 or higher
• Experience with complex multi-country implementations
• Solution Manager/Focused Build Experience (including Agile Project Management mindset)

Travel:Ability to accommodate travel up to 25%.

This position does not support immigration sponsorship.

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