Sr Analyst, Technical Architect (SAP PP)
Job Summary
The position works within the KL Global Technology Center as part of the Estee Lauder Technical Shared Service organization (TSS). The role will have a strong background in both functional and technical aspects of SAP, particularly in supply chain processes and regulated industries. This role involves collaborating with IT stakeholders to understand requirements, set priorities, and communicate progress. You will implement engineering strategies and transform business functional requirements into technical specifications. Hands-on experience with SAP modules such as SAP ECC Production, PP-PI, Logistics Execution, and SAP APO PP/DS is essential. The role should also have experience with MES, Shopfloor, and Enterprise Asset Management applications, and integrating them with SAP. Strong communication, problem-solving, and influencing skills are crucial.
Responsibilities
Manage application delivery build activities (design, configure, develop, unit test) in Jira
Design, configure and implement applications listed under Technical Skills and Qualifications
Collaborate with IT stakeholders to identify and propose best technical solutions
Ensure that solution designs are properly understood and successfully followed
Conduct system design reviews
Works with business analysts and wider architecture team to refine requirements for business and technical problems
Provide basic design documents and translates into component-level designs to accelerate development.
Assist in developing technical documentation; participate in test-plan development, integration and deployment
Assist with investigation of live system issues and propose approaches to address the root cause, contributes to root cause analysis together with technical operations.
Partner with Functional, Enterprise Architecture, and Enterprise Cybersecurity and Risk to develop enterprise grade applications that adhere to ELC Standards
Coordinate requirements walk-through and signoffs, verifying with user representatives/stakeholders that use cases and process models accurately portray specific business needs
Accountable for collaborating with analysts and architects to understand the business requirements, identifying solution gaps and available capabilities, and defining solutions to meet the business need.
Manage Stakeholder’s concerns regarding technical issues for their areas
Contributes to development of project plans.
Evaluate potential software solutions, including off-the-shelf and open-source components, and the system architecture to ensure that they meet business requirements.
Translates business domain understanding and context to technical capabilities for technical architects and development teams.
Produce system design documents
Participate in architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment in the system
Stay abreast of current trends/technologies in consumer space and be aware of technology initiatives from other best in class retailers and technology companies globally
Support prototype and proof-of-concept development efforts
Ensure work scope is maintained, and solutions are implemented on time and on budget
Give direction on how to leverage technology to solve business problems
Participate in project hyper care, and support the handover to technical operations team
Requirements
- Bachelor Degree in Information Technology or relavant disciplines
Interface with our IT stakeholders to understand requirements, set priorities and communicate direction and progress
Drive diverse thinking and problem solving
Implement Engineering strategy and vision for products, working closely with customers and product managers
Working knowledge of Waterfall, Agile, Hybrid application implementation methodologies
Transforming business functional requirements into technical specifications, design technology solutions to meet business objectives
Hands-on experience in designing and configuring the following SAP modules:
SAP ECC Production, PP-PI
SAP ECC Logistics Execution inbound and outbound processes
SAP ECC Logistics Execution warehouse management
SAP ECC Batch management
SAP APO PP/DS