Senior Specialist, Finance Solution Architect

Eaton’s Corporate Sector division is currently seeking a Senior Specialist, Finance Solution Architect.   The expected annual salary range for this role is $130000 - $190000 a year. This position is also eligible for a variable incentive program.  This role can sit in one of the following sites: Beachwood OH, Galesburg MI, Houston TX, Menomonee Falls WI, Moon Township PA or, Raleigh NC.

Please note the salary information shown above is a general guideline only. Salaries are based upon candidate skills, experience, and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations. 

What you’ll do:

As a Solutions Architect, you will be responsible for understanding requirements / problem statements specific to the Finance Value Stream and build solution architectures which meet those requirements. The Finance workstream covers Accounting, Controls, Tax, FP&A, Treasury, Audit and Real Estate. Understand various enterprise/strategic applications, security policies /standards defined in Eaton, apply architecture best practices to craft an architecture that is Secure, scalable, cost effective, performance efficient and resilient. You will drive and/or take part in technical solutions discussions, present your architectures along with supporting artifacts to council of enterprise architects, business, cyber security team and other stakeholders to get their feedback and accommodate it in your architecture. 

You will help the business in evaluating technical capabilities of SaaS applications in the market which could potentially meet business requirements, rate, recommend preferred SaaS application and develop architecture to onboard it, integrate it with other Eaton on premises/ cloud hosted/ SaaS applications as applicable.

You will provide architectures to integrate existing Eaton applications to meet a specific business need. 

Where SaaS application is not an option, you will provide architectures to develop applications internally with a cloud first mindset. You are further responsible for working with the development teams and providing design oversight and guidance at varying levels during project execution. Finally, the solutions architect is charged with ensuring solutions are in support of strategic goals for the company – both business and IT.

Job Responsibilities
- Design solutions that meet customer and stakeholder needs
- Create Dataflow and Process mappings.
- Assure the feasibility and sustainability of designed solutions
- Design and evolve technical solutions that support current and future needs
- Manage nonfunctional requirements and compliance
- Define and prioritize enablers including exploration work and technical debt reduction
- Enable continuous integration and continuous delivery that enables immediate feedback and adjustment
- Maintain architectural runways for a series of products within a Value Stream 
- Manage, track, evaluate technical capability across Value Stream to facitate the selection and alignment of a technical solution following enterprise guardrails. Execute POCs where applicable.
- Responsible for ensuring design meets Eaton's standards and requirements
- Partner with other Architects to evaluate capabilities and features to expand the use of an existing application to meet additional business requirements.
- Build BPMNs to standards and within Process Modelling Tools
- Build ArchiMate diagrams to depict architectures.
- Work closely with peers to ensure end to end holistics views of architecture decisions cross value stream
- Collaborate and drive synergies between enterprise architect, system architect, and product owners.
- Partner with cyber security to ensure secure architectures and disaster recovery preparedness
- Work closely with product owners to develop and align their roadmaps, ensuring that the sequencing of end-to-end rollouts are logical and efficient.

Qualifications:

Basic (required) Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution
• Minimum eight (8)years of experience in the software industry with a proven track record of shipping high quality products
• Advanced knowledge of Accounting & Controls, Tax, FP&A, Treasury, Audit and Real Estate  
• Expert level understanding of software design principles, design patterns, algorithms, data structures, and multithreading concepts
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without company sponsorship, now or in the future.
• No relocation benefit is being offered for this position candidates must live within a 50 mile radius of one of the following locations: Beachwood OH, Galesburg MI, Houston TX, Menomonee Falls WI, Moon Township PA or, Raleigh NC OR are you Active Duty Military

Preferred Qualifications:

• Extensive experience utilizing best practices in software engineering
• Experience with Finance systems and their associated development languages and platforms
• Extensive experience developing secure, enterprise grade, highly scalable, highly performant applications and/or distributed systems
• Solid understanding of DevSecOps, CI, and CD principles from code check-in through to deployment
• Extensive experience with modern software development principles including code management, test automation, APIs, microservices, and cloud services.
• Solid understanding of cybersecurity concepts such as encryption, hashing, certificates, PKIs, Threat Modeling, secure coding, and OWASP.
• Experience working with Agile, Scrum, or Kanban
• Experience working with a cloud platform such as Azure, AWS, or GCP.
• Experience with documenting Business Processes
• Experience with Capability Based Planning

Skills:

Soft skills   
- Effective verbal and written communication skills including the ability to explain and present technical concepts
- Comfortable working directly with both technical and non-technical audiences
- Good judgment, time management, and decision-making skills
- Ability to work colaboratively on a technical team
- Patience and empathy when working with architects, developers, and testers
- Experience working with diverse, global cultures, organizations and teams
- Proven ability to work in a self-directed manner
- The ability to translate business issues/requirements and objectives into technical solution

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