Functional Architect Job Description
Functional architect
provides security architecture and engineering design consulting to the Global Business Units (GBUs) Product Development organizations and GBU/Oracle Cloud for Industry (OCI) hosting organization.
Functional Architect Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Interacting with various business users to understand the business requirement and then translating those requirements into functional and technical design solutions that deliver long-term value to business
Experienced in business or operational management, including optimisation of service propositions, business architecture and resources
Knowledgeable of the finance/controlling domain and end-to-end workflow for a banking & trading business
A bachelors degree with a concentration in business, economics, engineering or computer science and/or the equivalent qualifications or experience
Experienced in business, operations and change management, with the ability to perform at a lead level and influence strategic decision-makers and functional stakeholders
Experienced in business architecture, specifically in designing and implementing an integrated platform from a functional or technical perspective (beneficial)
Highly skilled in business and requirements analysis, including good communication and stakeholder management skills (all levels up to managing director)
Able to balance business demands and IT fulfilment in terms of standardisation, reducing risk and increasing IT flexibility
Gathering and documenting internal requirements with Treasury, Operations and Group Technology’s Business Analyst’s
Designing functional solutions to ensure they meet business requirements and obtaining sign-off
Functional Architect Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Functional Architect
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: SAP, ERP, ITIL, HCM, CC, MDM, C2M, IEC, QAI, CSTE
Education for Functional Architect
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the functional architect job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Technical, Engineering, Business, Computer Science, Management, Leadership, Education, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Finance
Skills for Functional Architect
Desired skills for functional architect include:
Business
Customer
Domain
Domain/industry and product within given industry vertical
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Oracle cloud applications are
Oracle competitors
Cloud based solutions
Support of other departments
Business architecture skills: business case building
Desired experience for functional architect includes:
Of skills for the technology, viability of relevant third parties
Considerable project experience delivering large scale service systems for commercial support
Ability to deeply understand existing technology solutions and alternatives in the marketplace
Demonstrated ability to present ideas to multiple stakeholders and gain consensus for these ideas
Ability to build relationships and work across geographies, cultures and functions
Reviews and evaluates designs and project activities for compliance with applications design and development guidelines and standards
Functional Architect Examples
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Functional Architect Job Description
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Our innovative and growing company is hiring for a functional architect. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for functional architect
- Contrast the business PRIV Business Data model with the target logical data model and document the differences
- Lead Business Analyst or Functional Architecture experience
- A Bachelor’s degree with a concentration in Business, Economics or Computer Science (or equivalent qualification / work experience)
- Able to persuade and engage in business dialogue, whilst supporting stakeholders
- Educated to Bachelor’s degree level with a concentration in Business, Economics, Engineering or Computer Science (or equivalent qualification / relevant work experience)
- Provide consulting to business groups
- Analysis and interpretation of users’ business needs
- Design of banking applications architectures (front end, business and service layer, back end)
- Work closely with product management to understand the product roadmap, and customer requirements to create the overall requirements and functional specifications for different components of the platform
- Work closely with business and HR colleagues, especially Talent and Learning, to define and adhere to cross team processes for design, program and project management, including prioritization & design principles
Qualifications for functional architect
- Deep understanding and experience across multiple technical domains including web, mobile applications and services, middleware, compute, network, workload automation, cloud deployment patterns
- 5+ years of Hyperion Essbase development or support experience, primarily BSO experience
- Exchanges information with appropriate people to complete work, follows through on tasks and commitments and keep information confidential, as warranted
- Some leadership experience in a Big 5 organization is preferred
- Good understanding of MVC concept
- Must have a good grasp of project and program management methods and tools
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Our company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of functional architect. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for functional architect
- Proactively partner with other solution areas within IT to develop IT product recommendations to our business partners
- Implement strategic recommendations to drive increased adoption throughout the employee / customer product lifecycle experience
- Acquires functional / data knowledge on all business processes
- Work closely with other design functions and project management to ensure that development is aligned with customer requirements, contribute to product innovations and improvement ideas
- Communicating about new products and technologies in SAP offer, their effective maturity and their potential value for the IT “Sell & Support” domain
- Communicates strategic IT decisions and plans and works to achieve alignment at the top level of the business, function, or geography
- Represents the needs of the business, function, or geography during the IT priority-setting process
- Identifies leverage opportunities where IT can provide cost-effective, standard solutions to meet the needs of multiple business/function/geography organizations
- The ability to understand requirements quickly
- Work with Proposal Owners during proposal phase of demand management to establish engagement for architecture work
Qualifications for functional architect
- At least 5 years experience in with implementing large ERP solutions on the Microsoft Dynamics AX 3.0 and 4.0 platform and preferably also on other large scale ERP systems
- At least 5 years experience in Dynamics AX 3.0 and 4.0 and later ERP platformscycle oversight on atleast one Microsoft Dynamics Ax project
- Deep Risk (Market and Credit Risk) experience, gained at a minimum of two Tier 1 investment banks
- Solid Target Operating Model design experience
- Experience of “best practice” in Risk processes
- Understand Investment Banking and Private Banking IT platforms , how they are wired together , how they interact and how would change be orchestrated in these platforms to support regulatory agendas and programs
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Our company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of functional architect. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for functional architect
- Determine architecture solution lifecycle state of current demand to determine architecture value add of EA engagement
- Develop understanding of overall demand portfolio to flag similar and related demands to improve synergy and reduce duplicate architecture work
- Deliver strong JDE functional application designs and solutions thru the ability to transform user requirements to program specifications and to communicate effectively with developers and end users throughout the process
- Effectively communicate throughout the organization from end-users through senior level management
- Effectively manage relationships with end users, senior management, and within IT in a matrixed-resource environment
- Efficiently troubleshoot and effectively isolate application issues vs
- Expert level knowledge of JD Edwards integration points such as BI Publisher, EDI, Scale Systems, Oracle Transportation Management (OTM), webMethods, and other 3rd party Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES)
- Use working knowledge of JDE CNC functions, security framework, the JDE E1 technical development toolkit – E1 Pages, CAFEOne, Watch Lists, etc – in the solution design process
- Provide project leadership in the areas of functional design and testing
- Perform configuration and set up in the JD Edwards OMW development toolkit
Qualifications for functional architect
- Be able to come up with lists of tangible changes that will be handed of the development leads to ensure the actual implementation occurs inline with the bank's strategic architecture
- Proven record in deploying, change request management, end user adaption & training and/or support of SAP solutions (focus on SAP MM, SAP WM, SAP eWM, SAP TM)
- Use working knowledge of Microsoft SQL database utilities and ability to construct SQL queries for mass data analysis
- Provide regular status updates to the IT Director-Enterprise Systems regarding workload, project status, priorities, and issues/roadblocks needing resolution
- Able to plan and facilitate design sessions
- Minimum 8 years’ experience as a team member of successful software project implementations related to SaaS, CPQ, Quote-to-Cash, Contract Management (CLM), CRM or ERP
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Our company is growing rapidly and is looking to fill the role of functional architect. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for functional architect
- Definition of customized applications solutions
- Evolution of existing applications architectures, and integration of advanced open source components on mostly custom and/or package architectures
- Lead the functional design, development and delivery of technology product as part of a broader technology product development program
- Responsible for design of technology solutions and services for the Learning function, Talent & Career Management including Social Learning ecosystems and practices
- Drive the solution design of the platform and will be responsible for all the changes after doing the required impact analysis
- Work with the Technical Architecture team to decide the best functional approach, configurations, designs, and mock-ups for the platform to have the best user experience
- Conceptualize framework for the future employee experience & organization effectiveness at RIL to be delivered leveraging futuristic technology solutions for the platform
- Determine the gaps between requirements and the platform functionalities and define workable solutions to bridge the gaps
- Work on all project phases of SDLC including fit/gap, configuration, and testing
- Responsible for reviewing solutions designed and proposing continuous improvements
Qualifications for functional architect
- A minimum of 6 years’ experience in the capacity as a Techno-Functional Solutions Architect
- Techno-Functional Solutions Architecture experience with Salesforce.com implementations and Apttus CLM implementations with certifications
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related field preferred
- At least 10 years of integration systems experience with a heavy focus on architecture, design and service oriented methodology
- Works independently without supervision and as part of a large team
- Ability to lead on and off-shore technical teams
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Our innovative and growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of functional architect. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for functional architect
- Scan, engage, research and analyses the Business domain organizations and generate requirements
- Prepare, articulate, create and clarify Business requirements to Product teams and other stakeholders
- Mentoring and Grooming Business Analysts and SMEs in the team
- Reviews functional design documents, user stories and other functional artifacts to ensure that they are in alignment with the Business need
- Document the logical data model (diagrams + text explanations for main objects)
- Maintain a backlog of open questions on data modelisation coming from all streams (banking, portfolio management , CRM, eBanking)
- Define and document the application architecture including all peripheral systems (GL, Purchase Ledger, MIS, Reg reporting, SWIFT, etc)
- Check functional and data consistency between migration streams / integration streams
- Creates communication links between local teams and central (Paris) Architecture team on data or functional topics whenever necessary
- Help local teams in the design and implementation phase
Qualifications for functional architect
- Selenium or SoapUI Pro experience preferred with generally broad tools experience
- Strong, effective interpersonal, communications, and leadership skills
- A demonstrable track record of managing multiple engineering projects from design to implementation
- Participates to streams workshops when relevant
- Alerts CIO, Project Management, central Architecture team when there is an unsolved inconsistency
- Has periodic contact with FNZ functional and data expert(s)