IT Director, Commercial Architect and IT Business Partner

Sensata Technologies; Attleboro (MA); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking an IT Director to lead the strategic development of internal and cloud-based systems. This role will drive continuous improvement and program execution, enhancing the efficiency of commercial and business partner teams. The successful candidate will collaborate with various stakeholders to ensure that business needs align with technology solutions, ultimately delivering value to customers. This is an exciting opportunity to work in a dynamic environment where innovation and teamwork are at the forefront. If you are passionate about technology and leadership, this role is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• University degree required or equivalent relevant work experience.
• Ability to communicate effectively and manage team objectives.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate with business partners to oversee strategic development.
• Direct activities for commercial business processes related to IT.

Skills

Communication

Problem solving

Team Management

Strategic thinking

Budget Management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Salesforce

Oracle EBS

Oracle Cloud

Job description

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IT Director, Commercial Architect and IT Business Partner

Apply locations Attleboro, Massachusetts time type Full time posted on Posted 6 Days Ago job requisition id IRC95315 The IT Director, Commercial Architect and IT Business Partner will be responsible for partnering within the Sensata organizations to develop and execute an IT Strategy and Roadmap aligned with business needs and priorities. Sensata has business processes that are at various levels of standardization which will benefit from technology simplification, alignment and utilization globally. This role is the key IT leader driving continuous improvement and program execution to improve the efficiency of our Commercial and Business Partner teams. This role is key in leading the respective teams across the global organization, supporting these functions today and serving as a single point of escalation for the business organizations and assisting with the prioritization of work that is needed to run day-to-day operations. Deploying standards, reducing complexity and adding value to our customers are key focus areas that this role will directly influence.

General Responsibilities

• Coordinate with Business partners, IT leadership and other technical managers to oversee the strategic development of internal and cloud-based systems and help build and maintain 3-5-year roadmap for key business processes and systems
• Direct the activities for the commercial business processes related to Information Technology in the company, involving the definition, development, maintenance and operation of technology
• Advises on the selection of hardware and software to meet business partners requirements
• Oversees and reports on allocation of IT budget
• Transparently communicates throughout the IT organization and business
• Identify areas of improvements and concerns and accordingly develop action plans
• Work with business & IT to build solutions based on best practices, that utilize technologies already available where appropriate.
• Provide insights to Master Data Team for building MDM solutions around Customer, Supplier, and Product
• Provide insights and design guidance as it relates to system integrations.
• Provide business architecture, systems architecture, and systems processing guidance to IT teams including Business Analysts, System Analysts, and Infrastructure teams.
• Assist in IT Integration for M&A as well as divestures
• Guide team in templatizing data conversions activities to reduce project cycle time.
• Lead and approve design reviews
• Create and maintain System Architecture documents
• Adjust architectures to support changing requirements, maintaining performance, reliability, and security.
• Lead team and guide them through the enhancement requests
• Where appropriate, leverage Agile and devOps methodologies

Experience / Qualifications

• A university degree required (i.e. Bachelors degree) or equivalent relevant work experience.
• Business ethics - Ability to practice and behave consistently and effectively in areas of business practice and conflicts of interest
• Communication - Ability to communicate effectively by getting the right message across to the right people at the right time on a regular basis
• Customer Orientation - Ability to meet customers’ expectations by identifying and anticipating customers’ needs and integrating these into work; ability to develop new added value for customers and act with the customer in mind
• Result orientation - Ability to take steps personally to ensure that mutual goals and performance targets are met within the appropriate timeframe
• Teamwork - Ability to work with others and work synergistically with fellow team-members
• Planning and Organizing - Ability to plan, prioritize and organize work and schedules in all areas to meet requirements
• Problem solving - Ability to reach logical conclusions to situations by appropriately analyzing the situation. Balances the benefits, risks and consequences of actions
• Time Management - Ability to assessing your ability to manage your time, and the effectiveness of your team to reach department objectives
• Conflict management - Ability to recognize and work towards a mutually agreeable solution when confronted with conflict
• Decision making - Ability to think through possibilities and make sound decisions with appropriate degree of risk; knows when he / she has enough data to make an informed decision
• Resilience - Ability to work under pressure and prioritize
• Strategic thinking - Ability to turn strategy into action, to see the big picture and use this ability productively
• Managing objectives - Ability to decide what needs to be accomplished and design a plan to achieve the desired results
• Team Management - Ability to delegate, motivate, mentor, develop and manage team to achieve objectives. Manage external resource against SLA and operational metrics
• Budget Management - Ability to project and present annual operation Expense and Capital budget in departmental budget process

The Commercial Applications Architect will be accountable for the platforms supporting the business in this process area. They act as a bridge between business needs and technology solutions, ensuring that all platform capabilities are designed and used to their fullest potential. Example platforms to be supported include Salesforce, Oracle EBS, and a future migration to Oracle Cloud.

The IT Business Partner will work with Sensata’ s Solution Delivery Managers, Business Analysts, and Developers to recommend, design and confirm that business requirements align into Sensata’s platforms and are aligned to best practices.

This position will be subject to U.S. export control requirements under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and/or Export Administration Regulations (EAR). Employment is contingent on either verifying the U.S. Person status or obtaining any necessary export license.

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