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Solutions Architect
Location:
Houston, TX
Description:
Title : Solutions Architect Location: Houston, TX Who we are: Voted one of the Nation's Best and Brightest Companies to Work for, Kuraray America, Inc. (KAI) is a global leader in specialty chemical, fiber and resin production. With top-of-the-line research and production facilities located in Houston, Texas, and a vast network of supply from around the world, Kuraray leads the industry in specialty dental, fiber, resin, and elastomer products. Kuraray America is a wholly owned subsidiary of Kuraray Company, Ltd. Based in Tokyo, Japan. Kuraray has operations in 28 countries and employees more than 12,000 employees, including over 800 in the United States. Why Kuraray: Kuraray is building a better tomorrow, today. Our team members are dedicated to expanding our business with committed professionals who share essential values such as integrity, excellence, teamwork, and accountability. As a part of Kuraray America, Inc., our team shares the advantages of working for the leader in specialty chemicals, resins and fibers. Our international presence and resources allow us to be a world-leading innovator in the industries we service. Yet, despite our size, our people are more than just a number. As a new team member, you can expect to earn responsibility quickly. Our commitment to our people is visible in our comprehensive benefits package. As a Kuraray team member, you will have the opportunity to enjoy competitive salaries and benefits, incentive opportunities, and an excellent work environment. Position Summary: The Digital Transformation Office (DTO) was just established on January 1, 2022 and reports directly to the president of the company. The organizational structure and alignment of resources is still being determined. The solutions architect proactively and holistically leads and supports enterprise architecture activities that guide the development and management of a portfolio of solutions. Solutions include projects, systems (including applications, technologies, processes, and information), shared infrastructure services and shared application services. They understand the concepts of business goals, objectives and business outcomes, business capabilities, value-streams, and business processes and their importance in solution architecture. The solutions architect provides the necessary leadership, analysis and design tasks related to support the development of technology solutions to ensure that solutions meet business needs and align with architectural governance and standards. They create deliverables for managing the organization's portfolio of "to be" and "as is" solutions - including systems (applications, processes, information, and technology) and shared application services and components to enable and drive targeted business outcomes. Responsibilities: Understand business drivers and business capabilities (future and current state) and determines corresponding enterprise solution designs and change requirements to drive the organization's targeted business outcomes. Translate business and technical requirements into an architectural blueprint to achieve business objectives and document all solution architecture design and analysis work. Monitor the current-state solution portfolio to identify deficiencies through aging of the technologies used by the application, or misalignment with business requirements. Understand emerging technological trends and disruptions and their practical application to enable new and evolving business and operating models. Consults with application and infrastructure development projects and products to fit systems or infrastructure to architecture and identify when it is necessary to modify designs to accommodate the solutions architecture. Leads evaluation, design, and analysis for the implementation of a solutions architecture across a group of specific business applications or technologies based on enterprise business strategy, business capabilities, value-streams, business requirements and enterprise standards. Supports practices that align with the overall enterprise architecture governance Minimum Qualifications : Bachelor's degree in information technology, Computer Science, Engineering or related technical disciplines or experience preferred. Minimum of five years of experience in relevant development disciplines, including application development, middleware, database management or cloud development, and data analytics. Excellent analytical, planning, organizational, project management and technical skills Ability to work with developers in an outsourced environment. Understanding and knowledge of system development life cycle methodologies (such as waterfall, agile software development, rapid prototyping, and DevOps) Excellent understanding of application development methodologies and infrastructure and network architecture Knowledge of various aspects of technology architecture like integration, network, and security Knowledge of financial models and budgeting Excellent written and verbal communication skills Ability to work effectively in a team environment and lead cross-functional teams. Skilled at influencing, guiding, and facilitating stakeholders and peers with decision making. Ability to understand the long-term ("big picture") and short-term perspectives of situations. Ability to propose and estimate the financial impact of solution architecture alternatives. Ability to work creatively and analytically to solve business problems and propose solutions. Ability to articulate new ideas and concepts to technical and nontechnical audiences. Organizationally savvy, with the ability to navigate in a multi-cultural environment. Ability to quickly comprehend the functions and capabilities of new technologies. Preferred Qualifications: Knowledge of various backend development languages like Java and Python Knowledge of various database technologies like SQL Knowledge of various frontend web development languages like JavaScript, HTML and CSS. We offer a competitive compensation package that includes base pay and an annual incentive. This program is designed to reward individual performance and align overall rewards with corporate and team performance. Our employees enjoy an attractive healthcare benefits package, including wellness reimbursements to promote a healthy lifestyle. We also provide an Educational Reimbursement Plan, helping our employees fulfill their career goals, as well as a competitive 401(k). Please apply online at: http://www.kuraray.us.com/careers/ Kuraray America, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer AA M/F/disability/protected veteran status No third party candidates accepted. Job Posted by ApplicantPro
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Kuraray America
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January 25 on ApplicantList
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