Sr. Technical Solutions Analyst
Company: Skechers U.S.A.
Location: Manhattan Beach
Posted on: April 28, 2024
Job Description:
Company Description
Headquartered in Southern California, Skechers has spent nearly 30
years helping men, women and kids everywhere look and feel good.
Developing comfort technologies is at the foundation of all that we
do-delivering stylish, innovative, and quality products at a
reasonable price. From our diverse footwear offering to a growing
range of apparel and accessories, Skechers is a complete lifestyle
brand.
With international business representing over half of our total
sales, we have product available in more than 170 countries and
significant opportunities for continued expansion worldwide. We
sell our collections direct to consumers through more than 4,000
Skechers stores around the globe and Skechers e-commerce sites, as
well as through a network of third-party partners.
Job Description
Skechers IT division is transforming our engineering practice by
embracing high-performing, cloud native APIs and applications using
a modern technology stack that includes serverless, microservices,
containers, QA automation, and zero-touch delivery pipelines.
Technical Solutions Analyst is a key role within the Software
Engineering and Architecture organization, responsible for agile
software delivery, have the necessary technical & business acumen
to skillfully convert what (requirements) into how (solutions) with
the help of the Architects, and be the glue to the engineering
teams to deliver as promised. scalable, extensible, portable
digital solutions for internal business and technical teams. The
Technical Systems Analysts are lead-from-the-front technology and
Agile delivery experts deeply dedicated to their projects and
business domains. They partner with business analysts to translate
requirements into actionable solutions/user stories and lead
cross-capability development teams to shepherd those stories into
working software solutions.
The Technical Solutions Analysts collaborate and work within
high-velocity software engineering teams, bringing expertise in
Agile software delivery. Technical Solutions Analysts are
passionate, flexible Agile experts who love to practice and hone
their craft. The candidate should be an experienced and motivated
technologist who possesses a unique balance of technical depth and
strong interpersonal skills. Should have excellent design, lead
skills showing commitment, end to end vision, planning, integrity,
and pragmatic approach to drive organization towards continual
success.
Essential Job Responsibilities:
- Own and drive the strategic architecture vision and the
technologies required to ensure delivery of business solutions at
Skechers.
- Represent the Software Engineering & Architecture group in
end-to-end solution conversations with customers and
stakeholders.
- Participate in strategizing the modernization of the overall
technology ecosystem with the head of Software Engineering and
Architecture.
- Demonstrate skills at defining and documenting business and
functional requirements for ongoing system improvement initiatives
in iterative software development environments and can serve as a
liaison between both business and technical teams to drive
effective, timely solutions that fulfill both strategic and
operational needs.
- Demonstrate leadership skills in driving and owning
solutions.
- Participate in providing mentoring support and guidance to team
members to help grow skills and capabilities of the Architecture
practice at Skechers.
- Engage, collaborate, and partner with Skecher's Digital,
Retail, Wholesale, Customer Service, Supply Chain leaders and
partners across Business and Technology to understand long and
short-term business strategies, provide architecture leadership,
and engage in proactive planning of an executable Design.
- Actively contribute to a culture of high performance,
innovation, and continuous improvement.
- Serve as a subject matter expert in processes and methodologies
with the ability to adapt and improvise in different
situations.
- Build trust and confidence with solutions to various business
stake holders assuring expected tech outcomes and desired
results.
- Own the writing and presenting of presentations around
end-to-end architecture strategies, solutions, and best practices
to stakeholders.
- Working with business closely to collect requirements,
converting into functional and tech requirements for internal team
to deliver.
- Design solutions and engage with development teams until
delivery to review the requirement traceability meeting business
needs and expected outcome.
- Define architectural patterns, set standards for tech team to
deliver solutions based on previous implementations. Job
Requirements:
- Conceptualize and solution for key business use cases in
collaboration with Business and Engineering partners.
- Critical to have a sound knowledge of ERP, Finance, and Order
to Cash business domain knowledge.
- The Sr. Technical Systems Analyst is a mix of both business and
technical role, but more emphasis to the technical expertise. The
candidate must be competent across many areas of technology
(Application, Analytics, Integration, Databases) and in-depth
knowledge in a couple of these are highly desirable.
- Collaborate with integration specialists to develop and
implement integrations between Oracle cloud applications and other
systems. Design and document technical solutions for finance and
supply chain applications using Oracle OCF and OCSC cloud. You will
leverage your expertise and understanding of Oracle integration
platforms to deliver impactful solutions that meet the business
needs.
- Ability to produce high quality presentations, architecture
diagrams, and have strong communication skills.
- Work with stakeholders to design highly available
solutions.
- Responsible for the macro eco system portfolio of
Skechers.
- Collaborate with Architects to document reference
architectures.
- Break down design plans into actionable project plans.
- Understand the business & application requirements and
translate them into system / technical requirements.
- Collaborate with the engineering teams, in particular the
Solution Architects, to define and validate the technical approach,
strategy, and deliverables for the program. As the key member of
the team, you'll also prepare and deliver presentations, process
flows, update documentation repository and deliver work
products.
- Build and communicate the technology strategy and roadmap for
the Skechers platform that will be aligned to the business
strategy.
- Experience in implementing highly scalable web applications and
services.
- Ability to learn quickly to adapt to the changes in the
Skechers ecosystem. Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or relevant
experience in software implementation is desirable but not
mandatory.
- 5+ years of experience with technical systems analysis,
solutions, and working with teams on implementations.
- 3+ years supporting Supply Chain, Order Management or ERP
integrations.
- Extensive experience documenting development requirements,
process flows, testing requirements, coordinating code reviews and
documentation signoffs.
- Conversant in both technical and business acumen.
- Exposure to multiple ERP, OMS, WMS (Oracle is preferred)
- Basic understanding of the cloud and solution design
principles
- Have experience in analysis and/or implementing enterprise
application using cloud platforms
- Ability to lead user workshops, capture, define/refine
requirements, write business and system use cases, design process
workflow/activity diagrams; experience with a business process
mapping tool is a plus.
- Huge plus to have the AWS knowledge and understanding of
Gateway, Serverless, etc.
- Prefer domain expertise in an apparel or footwear
industry.
- Prior experience working with Engineering teams.
- Ability to create good presentations, roadmaps, and work with
senior technology leaders.
Additional Information
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to
perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The skills, abilities
and physical demands described are representative of those duties
that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the
essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be
made to enable individuals with disabilities, who are otherwise
qualified for the job position, to perform the essential
functions.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS-
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly
required to stand; use hands to finger, handle, or feel, and talk
or hear. The employee frequently is required to walk; sit, reach
with hands and arms, and stoop, kneel. The employee is occasionally
required to sit for long period of times.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO
guidelines.
The salary range for this position is $100,000-$150,000.
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