Become A Business Solutions Architect

* Technical
* Understanding of data workflows, application design and delivery, data warehousing, data analytics, benchmarking, and reporting
* Work with cross functional teams to create solution architecture and design
* Maintain broad understanding of products and technologies across the business portfolio, with proactive efforts aimed at testing new technologies, defining and pursuing technology innovation and advancement strategies.
* Establishes the validity of a solution and its components; defines and drives proof of concept (PoCs) when necessary
* May partner with IT in the development, enhancement, and/or maintenance of information systems to drive the business and achieve desired results.
* Proven solution design skills
* Can interpret technical designs into business requirements and talk logically about the relationships between multiple technologies
* Support new technologies for the design, coding and testing of business solutions
* PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES – Project Management
* Generate and maintain a project plan, communicate to core project team and stakeholders
* Gather requirements from business (cross-functional customers and partners)
* Develop an appropriate technical solution to meet the customer’s business requirements and strategy using Visual Basic, Microsoft Access/Excl, SQL or other coding tools to bring disparate data together.
* Write test cases and coordinate User Acceptance Testing efforts which will support final acceptance and sign-off by the customer
* Communicate project risks that may have a negative impact on the project schedule, scope or budget, escalate project issues which surface and cannot be quickly resolved which will have an impact on the project schedule, scope or budget
* Complete assigned and agreed to work within allotted time and desired quality
* Manage project list and active projects to ensure they are completed to customer expectations.
* Track time savings from a system and level of effort perspectives
* Provide user support during project phase and roll-out
* Create training documents for users, deployment of solution
* Train users on new software implementations and solutions
* Skilled in preparing and delivering presentations for end user and executive level audiences.
* Overcome resistance to change by mediating and resolving misconceptions and misunderstandings across business
* Other duties as assigned
* IBM Incentive Compensation Management development and support(desired)
* SQL (strongly desired)
* Excel macro coding/ development (required)
* Microsoft Access and/or Visual Basic (required)
* Cognos, TM1, Tableau or Cognos 11
* years of hands-on experience in technical solution building and automation
* Customer-centric attitude.
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
* Excellent interpersonal, time-management and organizational skills.
* Logical aptitude and ability to solve problems
* Ability to prioritize and handle multiple projects.
* Strong attention to detail and organizational skills.
* Self-starter with a willingness to create & drive disruptive ideas/solutions
* Manage a variety of PM tools such as Microsoft Projects, Flow Charts, Mindmaps, etc.
* Project management skills (lead role)
* Equal Employment Opportunity
* Baxter is an equal opportunity employer.
* Baxter evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, disability/handicap status or any other legally protected characteristic.
* EEO is the Law
* EEO is the law
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* Pay Transparency Policy
* Reasonable Accommodations/
* Baxter is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities.
* If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or interview process, please send an email toCorporate_Staffing_Deerfield@baxter.comor call 877
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* Develops highly sophisticated technology plans in support of key business initiatives that require integration of multiple technologies, involve interrelationships of multiple systems, and serves diverse clients
* Develops, maintains and communicates architectural standards and roadmapsEnsures plans include consideration of disaster tolerance and recovery, security, and support migration to technology standards
* Promotes the architectural vision to IT colleagues and senior leaders, explaining the ultimate value to be achieved, and resolving conflicts between standardization and innovation
* Proactively assesses the trends in business functions, Enterprise Technology, and industry in general and their impact on the IT architectureProposes new technologies, new technical and architectural strategies, and new processes to meet business challenges, in full consideration of their costs and benefits
* Provides insights and new ways of looking at the business and technology that contribute to the strategic plans and directions of businessAnticipates technology changes and need to effectively plan for the future of the multiple technologies supported
* Provides technical advice and counsel to IT project teams in the design and support of major systems of the most complex nature and which have broad implications for the IT architecture
* Collaborates and seeks counsel from peers across the organization
* Establishes systems to monitor compliance with architectural standards and to ensure technical integrity
* Leads the development of networks of external business providers and consultants; ensures alignment of providers technologies with the Enterprise direction
* Provides technical guidance, training, direction and reviews the work of colleagues working on architectural issues to ensure alignment

* Promote the adoption and the implementation of the EADS, partner with business IT stakeholders, in the areas of business case value identification and development; align technology to build capabilities for value realization and provide ongoing oversight coordination.
* Develop compelling value propositions of leveraging EADS that will enable J & J leaders to make strategic decisions and to operate as an information driven business based on collaboration with cross functional teams of business and IT, industry, solution and consulting experts.
* Provide leadership and guidance to the architecture team in the areas of technology 'white space' and opportunities to enable the enterprise to realize business value.
* Analyze business trends, information needs and technical requirements to develop blueprints, frameworks that outline solutions focusing on data management and analytics to achieve business objectives.
* Recommend improvements and changes to solutions and architectures; develop plans and roadmaps to help manage transition business solutions.
* Liaise with the business users through quick visualization, dashboards, business metrics, KPIs, reports, pre-built and ad-hoc queries, search, predictive analytics, etc. the core capabilities of the Data and Analytics solution stack.
* Maintain technical proficiency with Data and Analytics capabilities that include: in-memory computing, data analytics, visualization, dashboards, business metrics, KPIs, reports, query building, search, predictive analytics, and master data management
* Qualifications
* Bachelor’s Degree is required.
* Master’s Degree is preferred.
* Minimum of 10 years of broad IT experience is required, preferably in a large, global organization.
* Sound understanding of big data solutions, capabilities and components and how technologies complement one other is required.
* Ability to prepare/provide value driven impact of solutions/technologies to influence the business and the financial proof of value of any solution/technology required.
* Understanding of advanced business analytics technologies and methods is required.
* Experience with cloud based services offering including but not limited to Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure is highly preferred.
* Experience with Big Data technology stacks such as AWS/EMR, Cloudera and Hortonworks is highly preferred.
* Experience with visualization tools such as Cognos, Microstrategy, Tableau, and Spotfire highly preferred.
* Global experience with good understanding of regional differences across ASPAC, EMEA, and North/South America in implementing IT solutions is highly preferred.
* Primary Location
* United States
* New Jersey
* Raritan
* Organization
* Johnson & Johnson Services Inc. (6090)
* Job Function
* Architecture

* Primary job duties include, but are not limited to:
* Lead a team of analysts, developers, and testers in developing, maintaining, and enhancing the highly efficient architecture and designs for the most complex business functionalities in the offender management systems such as Sentencing Structure and Time Accounting (SSTA), and Cost of Supervision (COS).
* Develop SSTA solutions architecture and system design documents which will transform complex business requirements into sustainable system design artifacts.
* Lead enhancement and maintenance of agency-wide system design documents for complex enterprise business functionalities and user interface designs, adhering to approved business solutions architecture.
* Monitor any system change requests that may affect the SSTA on an ongoing basis and escalate any SSTA issues timely to the DOC leadership for assigning appropriate business priority.
* Collaborate and interact with stakeholders to validate required changes in the enterprise systems that may impact the offender release dates.
* Create architecture and underlying technical design templates and communicate solution designs that will be implemented.
* Develop prototype of new innovative technologies that has potential for proving high business values and present them to decision makers for improving and enhancing an easy-maintenance of the enterprise business applications.
* Serve as a subject matter expert to guide business software development strategy by convincing decision makers and stakeholder across multiple organizations.
* Establish and maintain the DOC standards and procedures for system integrity, system validation, business solutions architecture, and system design patterns.
* Assess the impact of new requirements on an existing suite of complex offender management applications

* working on large,
* enterprise-wide initiatives at a program-level, developing or enhancing
* the Business Analyst Team Strategy promoting the team and vision to the
* rest of the corporation, meeting with various levels of management to
* promote consistency of the BA role across the organization., providing
* leadership, training and guidance to business analysts and project
* managers throughout the company, and defining best in class business
* analysis best practices.
* ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
* Functions in a consultative role to provide expertise in BA tools,process and best practices.
* Has a broad knowledge base of industrytrends and innovations, process/methodology improvement anddocumentation.
* Is a persuasive communicator, has excellentfacilitation and presentation techniques and is comfortable presentingto all levels of management.
* Balanced presentation of ideas andinformation to large audiences Maintains respectful dialogue inchallenging situations.
* Provides context to decisions by communicatingthe bigger picture.
* Effectively collaborates and influences leadershipacross the IT organization.
* Uses diplomacy and tact.
* Is able tounderstand disparate perspectives, find common points of agreement, andnavigate past road blocks.
* Have broad resources and social networks toreach into the organization to exchange ideas or seek input.
* Broad base of knowledge within the BA role as well as the greaterorganization that acts in a consultative role (Enterprise Analysis)
* Ability to understand broad impacts and can make/implementrecommendations on solutions while mitigating risks.
* Coordinate and leadBA tasks across multiple programs/projects including Program-levelBusiness Analysis, competitive analysis, feasibility studies andbusiness cases.
* Works independently and with minimal guidance frommanagement to plan, resource and execute against goals and plans
* Exercises solid independent judgment and decision making abilities.
* Drives the need and executes upon approval of BA productivity andprocess improvements with BA leadership.
* Inspires and influences teammembers to achieve goals.
* Ability to direct the work of others,providing performance coaching, feedback and training activities to teammembers.
* Can identify training needs within the team and recommendssolutions.
* Able to educate stakeholders outside the team on BA processesand achieve shared mindset/alignment.
* Able to act as a mentor to otherteam members and provide productive feedback.
* Has the ability to leadbroad training initiatives beyond the team.
* Largely responsiblefor coordinating with management and developing the strategic vision forthe team.
* Heavily involved in the industry to monitor trends andincorporate them where applicable.
* Ability to understand, align andarticulate the organizational strategy and vision and how that relatesto the change.
* Highly skilled in understanding the big picture.
* Drivessolutions to close gaps and mitigate risks.
* Called on by outside groupsas an expert