Senior Business Systems Architect

Summary

Join Western Digital and contribute to the strategic planning and design of a future-state business system architecture. You will identify areas for improvement, guide teams in simplifying their technology landscape, and serve as an escalation point for complex architectural issues. This role requires a Master's degree in a related field and extensive experience in business systems simplification, ERP systems, and cloud applications. You will translate business strategies into technology solutions, participate in architectural reviews, and contribute to architectural frameworks. Western Digital offers a comprehensive benefits package including paid time off, health insurance, retirement benefits, and more.

Requirements

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related engineering field
• 15+ years of experience simplifying business systems for service supply chain, forward & reverse logistics, transportation, supplier collaboration, sourcing
• 15+ years of experience with end-to-end business processes, spanning order-to-cash, plan-to-fulfill, and contact-to-resolution
• 10+ years of experience using visual artifacts to document and convey the intent of an enterprise architecture
• Demonstrated ability in data management and regulatory compliance
• 10+ years of experience with cloud-hosted applications, on-premises, and knowledge of the pros/cons between them
• 10+ years of experience with middleware, EDI, API, and knowledge of the pros/cons between them
• Demonstrated ability in strategic planning, governance, and change management within complex ERP landscapes
• Proven track record of managing large-scale ERP migration projects
• Ability to navigate uncertainty, drive outcomes in fluid situations

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the strategy, planning, and design of an end-state blueprint for business system architecture, and the sequence of steps to get there
• Identify the most promising areas in which to retire technical debt, modernize the technical stack, integrate more scalably, improve capability more quickly
• Guide teams responsible for applications, integration, reporting & analytics how to simplify their landscape, reduce complexity and total cost of ownership, and increase agility to meet/exceed the business and financial goals of clients, and the company
• Serve as an escalation point for enterprise architecture, providing expert advice and solutions to complex issues
• Guide teams in translating new business strategies into integrated, end-to-end technology solutions
• Participate in architectural review milestones within the software development lifecycle
• Contribute to architectural frameworks, standards, methods, and train colleagues to utilize them while solutioning
• Engage business & technical leaders, to secure broad commitment to adopting the to-be end-state blueprint, and methods to get there
• Break down barriers of silo’d thinking and local optimization of a single department or function, in favor of global, cross-functional, company-wide optimization

Preferred Qualifications

Preference for candidates with Oracle Cloud ERP and Oracle Service Cloud experience

Benefits

• Paid vacation time
• Paid sick leave
• Medical/dental/vision insurance
• Life, accident and disability insurance
• Tax-advantaged flexible spending and health savings accounts
• Employee assistance program
• Other voluntary benefit programs such as supplemental life and AD&D, legal plan, pet insurance, critical illness, accident and hospital indemnity
• Tuition reimbursement
• Transit
• The Applause Program
• Employee stock purchase plan
• The Western Digital Savings 401(k) Plan
• Short-Term Incentive (STI) Plan
• Long-Term Incentive (LTI) program
• Restricted stock units (RSUs) or cash equivalents