Solution Architect SAP BI - Navi Mumbai, India - Nouryon

Description

Job Description:

• Supports demand management in the ideation phase and early stages of IM projects
• Ensures compliance with strategy, policy, guidelines, and existing (technical) architecture
• Ensures quality, consistency and operational supportability of deployments
• Maintains market knowledge and understanding of currently emerging technologies in own area of expertise
• Proactively seeks continuous business and service improvement opportunities (cost and performance)
• Promotes the role and relevance of Solution Architecture in the business
• Identifies opportunities to build cross-functional working relationships including with external parties.

About the job (Job Responsibilities)

• Follows the right governance to get new Solution Architecture designs aligned with and approved by Nouryon Enterprise Architects. The Solution Architect Data & Analytics must remain at all times closely aligned with the Nouryon Enterprise Architects on the choice of applications, the sources of data and the underlying infrastructure.
• Works with vendors to define solution architectures and oversees the vendors' work. Contributes to vendor governance by participating in CABs, design reviews, and exception management processes. Ensures that the vendor teams remain within the boundaries as described in the approved solution architectures.
• Supports business teams with technical expertise on the development and operation of data driven solutions.
• Creates and maintains a holistic solution architecture for Nouryon's SAP BI landscape. Creates project specific architecture solutions and designs in accordance with the enterprise architecture guidelines.
• Helps define standards, guidelines and best practices for the usage of SAP BI and the Data Platform (SAP BW / SAC / Datasphere, Azure Data Foundation, PowerBI) and ensures adherence to them.
• Acts as a knowledge and expertise hub of the SAP BI instance, Data Platform and their architecture.
• Ensures that Quality standards are met and maintained for all solutions in the responsibility area of the Data Platform.
• Maintains Thought Leadership on Data & Analytics, e.g. by following developments in SAP / Microsoft support and innovation agenda.
• Takes initiatives to experiment with digital & data innovations.
• Shares knowledge with the Nouryon CoE team and the Nouryon business stakeholders

We believe you bring (Education & Experience)

Relevant SAP BI experience

SAP BW

SAP Data platform – SAP Datasphere / SAP analytics Cloud

SAP4/Hana

• Preferably working experience in a similar role in a company like Nouryon
• High standard of personal and interpersonal leadership
• Education: university degree (pref software engineering, computer science) with a keen interest in data technology.
• Experience: 10+ years of relevant experience.
• Experience in (agile) IT project implementation and change management process.
• Ability to rapidly comprehend the functions and capabilities of new trends and technologies, especially in the SAP / Microsoft ecosystems.
• Business process modelling and application architecture design (logical and physical) – frameworks (UML), tools, technologies, methodologies

Core Competencies for the role:

• Solution Architecture - The practice of defining and describing an architecture of a system delivered in context of a specific digital solution and as such it may encompass description of an entire system or only its specific parts.
• Core Consulting Skills - Consults with others on problems and activities; collects information from a range of sources to assist and guide job activities; asks effective questions to obtain information to help him/her perform their job
• Business Process Knowledge - Leverages knowledge of products/services and processes to meet customer needs and has the ability to appreciate the technical nature of the business, as well as how a particular function relates to that industry and the competition.
• User Experience - Calls attention to issues that impact customer satisfaction; views things from the perspective of customers; encourages people to think about customers when making decisions
• Taking responsibility - Takes accountability for delivering on commitments; owns mistakes and uses them as opportunities for learning and development; openly discusses his/her actions and their consequences both good and bad. Actively providing solicited and unsolicited advice verbally, not only in Solution Design documents/-presentations.
• Platform Integration - The knowledge, capability and understanding to use platforms and integrating applications and assuring the integration between systems so separate components function as one eco-system.
• Data Analytics & Modelling - Draws accurate inferences from analyzing data; makes effective use of tools and technology to analyze data; understands and effectively uses modelling concepts to design logical inter-relationships of data and has knowledge of how data is stored retrieved and represented.
• Act as sparring partner for DevOps teams in refinement - or team sessions.
• Solution Directions for assigned User Stories, creating visual diagrams and proposals.
• Taking ownership of structural challenges which cannot be solved operationally and require a more fundamental, structured, analytical approach.

Other requirements:

• Fluent in written and spoken English
• Willingness to travel internationally from time to time as part of the role (eg Netherlands, US)

Please apply via our online recruitment system. We will not accept applications via e-mail. Once it's with us we will review to see if we have a match between your skills and the role For more information about our hiring process, visit:

We look forward to receiving your application

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