Howmet Aerospace is currently in search of an IT Business Architect – Supply Chain , to join our Global Information Services (GIS) Resource Unit at the Howmet Corporate Center in Pittsburgh, PA. The position will report into the Senior Director, Corporate Applications and be part of the Architect team that strives to provide value-add business-driven solutions, through the leverage of right technologies. This role will be capable of building strong relationships across the business, as well as serving as an advocate for technology with plant leadership.
Major Activities :
- Works closely with supply chain functional leaders to create alignment between business and IT.
- The business architect proactively and holistically leads and supports information technology activities that strategically guide business and operating models, people, processes, and technology.
- The IT business architect clarifies strategic intentions, identifies business outcomes, explores implications, impacts, and risks, and addresses stakeholders’ questions.
- Helps business leaders and end users understand, apply, valuate, and operationalize existing, new, and emerging technologies to transform and optimize business and operating models.
Responsibilities :
Facilitate Enterprise Strategy Development, including opportunity identification, technology and business cases, and business innovation focused on increasing value by growing revenue, optimizing cost, and mitigating riskInterviews and analyze business processes to move the operations and logistics organization toward realizing its strategic goals and targeted business outcomes, while considering IT investment prioritiesDefine strategic plan and technology and project roadmaps for leveraging integrated business architecture as part of the organization’s overall enterprise architectureCreates actionable deliverables that demonstrate how to move the business toward realizing its strategic goals and targeted business outcomes by combining knowledge of business capabilities, value streams, and business processesUses the organization’s existing business and operating model as the starting point for innovation, for example, by using new technologies to enable a building blockResearches and provides consultation on emerging technology trends and disruptions and competitors' practices relevant to assigned business process / functions representativesCollaborates with and facilitates Howmet stakeholders involved in digital strategy and digital innovation to drive adoption of business process changes and new or existing technologiesConsults with subject matter experts to develop technical solutions. Advises on options, risks, costs versus benefits, and impact on other business processes and system prioritiesCollaborates with the IT PMO on benefits, issues, risks of initiatives and reporting project status.Analyze and anticipate project and product needs and determine resources needed to meet objectives and solve problemsCapture business needs and collaborate with other IT thought leaders on solutionsCritical thinker – challenging legacy assumptions, comfortable with ambiguity, and able to see the big pictureTravel will be required at ~ 25%