Job Description:
JOB SUMMARY:
This position is responsible for designing, and implementing scalable, secure, and efficient enterprise-level solutions that meet business requirements.
The individual in this position is responsible for delivering high quality solutions that meet Vertex needs in an integrated landscape.
This individual collaborates with cross-functional teams of Business Product Owners, other IT Product Managers, Enterprise and Application Architects, Compliance, development and support teams, and various stakeholders to accomplish objectives
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
Product Strategy, Roadmap and Continuous Product Enhancement
• Develops understanding of business application strategy and roadmap for their product area, ensuring alignment with Vertex priorities and objectives, working closely with business product owners, IT Product Managers and Compliance.
• Stays informed of industry trends and directions, Vertex strategy, new features being delivered by Workday, and new technologies that may benefit Vertex in their area of responsibility.
• Attains and maintains requisite knowledge and skills to define and design effective solutions within our business application landscape, covering knowledge in our core applications of Workday HCM & Financials, Workday integrations, as well as integrated applications.
• Ability to take a holistic view of an organization's Workday landscape, considering how multiple systems, processes, and data flows interact within the larger business architecture.
Product Discovery & Solution Design
• Collaborates with business and IT stakeholders to gather and analyze requirements, ensuing that the technical solutions address current and future business needs effectively
• Develop comprehensive solution architectures that align with business objectives, incorporating best practices in scalability, security, and performance
• Design and manage the integrations of Workday with other enterprise systems, ensuring data consistency, security, and reliability.
• Provide technical expertise in Workday configuration, customization, and optimization, leveraging deep knowledge of Workday’s tools and capabilities.
• Work with the Product Management to define technical requirements, support the development of epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Provides guidance to development teams, ensuring that they adhere to architectural standards and follow best practices.
• Lead Workday-related projects, including upgrades, new module implementations, and process improvements, ensuring successful delivery within scope, time, and budget.
• Adopts agile methods and tools within the SAFe agile framework as implemented within Vertex
IT Product Portfolio Architecture:
• Articulates the application solutions, data and integrations that support the various business value streams through comprehensive architecture documents, including for example: solution blueprints, system and integration diagrams, data flows, and collaborates with other teams and resources to ensure cohesiveness in the overall Architecture content.
• Ensures that solutions adhere to quality standards and good practices in design, development and implementation, instituting quality, and review processes across the development lifecycle.
• Evaluate and recommend solutions including third-party products and services that align with business needs and are best fit for the portfolio architecture.
• Contributes to defining the Architectural runway.
Optimize IT Product Performance:
• In partnership with IT Product Managers and Business Product Owners, ensures that the business application portfolio is fit for purpose and rationalized to eliminate redundant or unneeded applications and functionality, to attain greater efficiency, reduce cost and unnecessary technical complexity.
• Understands and regularly evaluates the IT Product Portfolio, including SaaS and other licensed applications, custom applications, and integrations for areas of obsolescence, improvement, or other technology risks and benefits.
• Define relevant Nonfunctional Requirements (NFR) for each solution and confirms the solution can support those NFRs
Fosters Innovative Ideas and Technologies:
• Evaluates and recommends relevant use cases for advanced technologies that apply to Vertex business application landscape.
• Stays informed of industry trends and directions, Vertex strategy, and new features being delivered by Workday that may benefit Vertex
• Define and design effective solutions using Workday technologies, with a focus on adhering to industry standards, best practices and code quality techniques.
Guides Enabler Epics:
• Works with Product Management to determine what technical Enablers epics are required to support the teams’ efforts.
• Defines the scope of the enabler epics and ensures the architecture and tools used conform to Vertex standards.
• Supports PI planning efforts in collaboration with Product Management
Location: Anywhere
Posted: Oct. 30, 2024, 4:20 a.m.
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