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Stanley Black and Decker Application Architect in Shanghai, China
About the Team
Joining the Stanley Black & Decker team means joining one of the world’s largest, fastest growing, and most dynamic companies. Stanley Black & Decker is unique in that we’ve got a rich and storied history dating back to 1843, but that hasn’t stopped us from evolving into a vibrant, diverse, global growth company poised and ready for the future.
Being a part of our team means living our core values of
courage & innovation
agility & performance
inclusivity & collaboration
integrity & accountability
It means thriving in an environment of constant innovation and positive change. It means delivering tools, services, and solutions that the world counts on when it really matters. It means maintaining the highest standards in everything you do, every day.
Key Responsibilities:
Responsible for engaging stakeholders, customers, providing technical and functional expertise to provide vision, oversight, and coordination across portfolio of technical solutions being developed in that domain. Develops, maintains, and communicates processes and standard practices related to the high-level design, development, and implementation of solutions across portfolio of projects and enhancements in the domain. Ensures solutions meet business needs along with architecturally significant functional and nonfunctional requirements. Works with the business to define technology roadmaps. Helps to ensure outside partners are educated on approved technical solutions and works with those partners to ensure requirements are met.
Key activities:
Translates business domain understanding and context to technical capabilities for technical architects and development teams.
Accountable for collaborating with business relationship managers and business stakeholders to understand business requirements, identifying solution gaps and available capabilities, and defining solutions to meet the business need.
Supports to research the market and approve Make vs Buy options to meet business requirements
Provide support to document high level design of solutions
Helps to define the effort and skills required to implement solutions
Ensure work scope is maintained and solutions are implemented, managing approved Changes
Conducts application scan and risk review to validate privacy, security, and risk policies are met
Responsible for examining the current systems architecture and working with business and technical staff to recommend solutions that result in more effective systems
Guide on how to leverage technology to solve a business problem
Work closely in collaboration with Enterprise Architecture to shape EA guardrails, standards and patterns
Understand and align solutions with Enterprise Architecture principles, guardrails, standards, patterns, and frameworks.
Works with outside partners to ensure SBD requirements are met
Functional Skills
Knowledge and understanding of BY/JDA Warehouse Management System
Business acumen
Familiarity with SDLC methodologies (Waterfall and Agile / Scrum / Iterative Development)
ITFS Project Methodology knowledge
Ability to tie together solutions across systems
Application domain knowledge
Understanding of current and future technologies
Oral & written communications
Business case development
Estimation of project scope/duration
Ability to simplify & standardize complex concepts / processes
Technical Skills
Blue Yonder/JDA - MOCA, Report Writer, Jasper, Java, C+, .NET
Blue Yonder/JDA - Integration Technologies and tools
Blue Yonder/JDA – System Setups and Configuration
SQL (Oracle or SQL Server)
Version Control (SVN)
Integration Technologies
Infrastructure technologies, including cloud computing / SaaS / IaaS / PaaS technologies
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Big Data Analytics, Data Architecture & Modeling
Web/Mobile Technologies
Expertise in application technologies/platforms/capabilities with a broader understanding of the overall environment
Behavioral Skills
Ability to influence
Ability to execute
Ability to prioritize and make trade-off decisions
Adaptability / ability to manage change
Interpersonal skills
Problem solving / analytical thinking
Creative thinking
Conceptual thinking
Teamwork and collaboration
Strong growth mindset
Education/Experience
• Undergraduate degree and 8-10 years relevant experience, or
• Graduate degree and 6-8 years relevant experience.
Physical Requirement/Work Location (On Site Critical, Partial Virtual, Fully Remote)
- Fully Remote
We Don’t Just Build The World, We Build Innovative Technology Too.
Joining the Stanley Black & Decker team means working in an innovative, tech-driven and highly collaborative team environment supported by over 58,000 professionals in 60 countries across the globe. Here, you’ll get the unique chance to impact some of the world’s most iconic brands including STANLEY TOOLS, DEWALT, CRAFTSMAN, MAC TOOLS and Black + Decker. Your ideas and solutions have the potential to reach millions of customers as we work together to write the next chapter in our history. Come build with us and take your career to new heights.
Who We Are
We’re the World’s largest tool company. We’re industry visionaries. We’re solving problems and advancing the manufacturing trade through innovative technology and our Industry 4.0 Initiative. We are committed to ensuring our state-of-the-art “smart factory” products and services provide greater quality to our customers & greater environmental and social value to our planet. We are unique in that we have a rich and storied history dating back to 1843, but that hasn't stopped us from evolving into a vibrant, diverse, global growth company.
Global Benefits & Perks
You’ll be rewarded with a competitive salary plus receive entitlements and benefits unique to your country of hire.
What You’ll Also Get
Career Opportunity: Career paths aren’t linear here. Being part of our global company with 60+ brands gives you the chance to grow and develop your skills along multiple career paths.
Learning & Development:
Our lifelong learning philosophy means you’ll have access to a wealth of state-of-the-art learning resources, including our Lean Academy and online university (where you can get certificates and specializations from renowned colleges and universities).
Diverse & Inclusive Culture:
We pride ourselves on being an awesome place to work. We respect and embrace differences because that’s how the best work gets done. You’ll find we like to have fun here, too.
Purpose-Driven Company:
You’ll help us continue to make positive changes in the local communities where we work and live as well as in the broader world through volunteerism, giving back and sustainable business practices.
For the builders and protectors, for the makers and explorers, for those shaping and reshaping our world through hard work and inspiration, Stanley Black & Decker provides the tools and innovative solutions you can trust to get the job done—and we have since 1843.
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