SENIOR TECHNOLOGY SOLUTION LEAD
Toyota Industries Commercial Finance, Inc.
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Toyota Industries Commercial Finance is pursuing a Business Transformation Architect to lead the delivery of architecture across a portfolio of solutions. The role requires translating business goals into architectural blueprints and guiding multi-team delivery.
Responsibilities include governance, vendor management, and collaboration with IT teams and PMO to ensure alignment with strategic objectives. Hybrid work schedule with in-office Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
Qualifications
- Minimum 7 years in IT solution development disciplines and architecture.
- Experience in financial services and enterprise technology architecture.
- Ability to translate business needs into architectural blueprints.
Responsibilities
- Translate business strategy into solution architecture and roadmaps.
- Lead evaluation and design for enterprise applications and technologies.
- Oversee governance, standards, and solution patterns.
- Collaborate with IT teams, PMO and product owners to ensure delivery.
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8951 Cypress Waters Blvd, Coppell , Texas 75019 , United States
Full-time
Based in Coppell, TX, Toyota Industries Commercial Finance (TICF) has over 200 associates and is a commercial lender for Toyota Forklift, and Toyota Advanced Logistics. Part of the global Toyota Industries Corporation family, we are included in a network of companies that manufacture and sell textile machinery, material handling equipment automobiles, and automobile parts. As a whole Toyota Industries Corporation has more than 15,000 Associates in North America and over 70,000 Associates around the globe.
Our vision at Toyota Industries Commercial Finance (TICF) is to be the financial services partner of choice to our dealers and customers by delivering innovative solutions that support the sustainable growth of our partners. We do this by engaging diverse talent and passion of people who are committed to helping carry the load, contribute to society, and strive for continuous improvement.
Whether you are starting out in your career or looking to make the next step, build your career on the foundation of the Toyota brand. Since 1926, Toyota has operated on the foundation of Respect for People and Continuous Improvement. At TICF, you’ll enjoy the benefits of a small company with the backing of a big-name brand. Ask Associates why they joined TICF, and you’ll hear them tell you about the Toyota culture – making sure each person we engage with feels welcomed, valued, respected, and heard. You’ll hear about an accessible leadership team who listens to Associate concerns and values open communication., You’ll hear about a Company that sticks with Associates through the highs and lows and provides stability. We are committed to our Associates and the communities we serve.
Our office is perfectly situated in Cypress Waters- the heart of the DFW metroplex. This premier campus reflects environmentally sophisticated buildings, extensive natural landscaping, pedestrian trails and streets, and lakeside restaurants. Work and discover amenities abound, such as free weekly yoga, a lunch shuttle to the restaurants, and so much more! Come check us out – life is better at Toyota!
Toyota Industries Commercial Finance is currently going through a dealer and customer-centric digital transformation to improve the digital touchpoints for associates, dealers, and end customers. As a part of digital transformation, TICF needs a Business Transformation Architect to enable our efforts. The Business Transformation Architect proactively and holistically lead the Application Delivery activities that guide the development and management of a portfolio of solutions. Solutions include projects, products, systems (including applications, technologies, processes and information), shared infrastructure services and shared application services.
He/she has a deep understanding of business goals, objectives and business outcomes, business capabilities, value-streams, and business processes. The architect provides the necessary leadership, analysis and design tasks related to support the development of technology solutions to ensure that solutions meet business needs and align with architectural governance and standards.
- Understands business drivers and business capabilities (future and current state) and decides corresponding enterprise system designs and change requirements to drive the organization's targeted business outcomes.
- Understands emerging technology trends and disruptions and the practical application of existing, new, and emerging technologies to enable new and evolving business and operating models.
- Translate business goals and strategy into actionable business and system requirements.
- Translates business and technical requirements into an architectural blueprint to achieve business objectives and documents all solution architecture design and analysis work.
- Acts as a consultant on a broad range of technologies, platforms, and vendor offerings to drive targeted business outcomes.
- Leads evaluation, design and analysis for the implementation of a solutions architecture across a group of specific business applications or technologies based on enterprise business strategy, business capabilities, value-streams, business requirements and enterprise standards.
- Creates architectural designs to guide and contextualize solution development across products, services, projects and systems (including applications, technologies, processes and information).
- Analyzes the business-IT environment (run, grow and transform the business) to detect critical deficiencies, legacy and technical debt, and recommends solutions for improvement (systems of record, differentiation and innovation).
- Manage and hold our vendor responsible for getting the solution delivered
- Investigates and analyzes application issues and directs 3 rd Party vendors in proper solutions.
- Designs and directs the governance activities associated with ensuring solutions architecture assurance and compliance.
- Defines the principles, guidelines, standards, and solution patterns to ensure solution decisions are aligned with the enterprise's future-state architecture vision.
- Facilitates the evaluation and selection of software product standards and services, as well as the design of standard and custom software configurations.
- Identifies the organizational impact (for example, on skills, processes, structures, or culture) and financial impact of the solutions architecture.
- Work closely within IT team and developers; Able to collaborate and manage the development team and delivery
- Works closely with the (PMO) project management office to ensure the execution of plans corresponds with what is being promised throughout the project or product lifecycle.
- Works closely with the product owners to ensure a robust architectural runway that can support future business requirements throughout the product lifecycle.
- Provides consulting support to agile teams to ensure the project or product is aligned with the overall enterprise architecture.
- Consults with application and infrastructure development projects and products to fit systems or infrastructure to architecture and identify when it is necessary to change projects to accommodate the solutions architecture.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, system analysis or a related study, or equivalent experience
- Working knowledge for Odessa Asset Finance System and/or SAP finance is must have
- Minimum of seven years of experience in at least two IT solution development disciplines, including technical or infrastructure architecture, network management, application development, middleware, database management or cloud development
- Good understanding of strategic and new and emerging technology trends, and the practical application of existing, new, and emerging technologies to new and evolving business and operating models
- Experience working in the financial industry
- Experience developing architecture blueprints, strategies, and roadmaps
- Experience delivering presentations to senior-level executives and technical audiences
- Good knowledge of at least one database technologies like SQL, MongoDB and Oracle – preferable SQL
- Knowledge of API framework
- Good understanding of at least one cloud platform like Azure, AWS – preferable Azure
- Working knowledge for Odessa Asset Finance System and/or SAP finance is must have
- Willing to learn new technology
- Knowledge of various aspects of enterprise technology architecture like business, information, data, network and security
- Understanding and knowledge of system development life cycle methodologies (such as waterfall, agile software development, DevOps)
- Understanding and knowledge of IT service management (ITSM) and Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
- Excellent analytical, planning, organizational and technical and skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to work with onshore, offshore, outsourced developers
- Extremely focused and result oriented
- Skilled at influencing, guiding and helping stakeholders and peers with decision making
- Ability to understand the long-term (<"big picture") and short-term perspectives of situations
- Ability to translate future-state business capabilities and requirements into solution architecture requirements
- Ability to quickly comprehend the functions and capabilities of new technologies
Competitive compensation, a company-wide bonus program, market leading benefit package, and joining one of the world’s most admired brands are all part of TICF’s employment value proposition.
- Choices of where you work and when you work - because we all value something different. Hybrid work schedules allow for flexibility where you work. There is required collaboration in office on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, but the flexibility to work from home the rest of the week. A unique 9/80 work schedule gives you flexibility when you work. Choose from alternating Fridays off or consider the Choice schedule which allows you a fixed morning or afternoon off each week.
- A Personalized Ride . Design and order your own personal Toyota or Lexus leased vehicle through TICF’s Associate Lease Program which includes all insurance, maintenance, and registration costs plus easy payroll deduction. Prefer to own your car? You can also purchase a Toyota or Lexus vehicle on terms available exclusively to Toyota Associates and eligible family members.
- Time Away . In addition to vacation time, TICF also offers paid personal and sick time, as well as 14 paid company holidays - including a paid year-end shutdown period for most departments. Plus, the ability to rollover unused time.
- Education Assistance. Are you weighed down by student debt? TICF will pay $200 per month up to a total of $20,000 to assist you with repaying your student loans. Interested in furthering your education – TICF will pay up to $5,250 toward your ongoing education in addition to company sponsored training.
- Comprehensive Care. We know you need great insurance to care for yourself and your family. TICF offers a low cost, low deductible PPO plan as well as a CDHP plan with employer contributions to your Health Savings Account. With an expansive Blue Cross Blue Shield network, you can get the care you need when you need it. Affordable dental and vision, along with an array of flexible spending accounts gives you the ability to pick and choose what works for your care.
- The Support You Need. Advocacy and an employee assistance program makes sure you have the support you need when issues arise. No cost short term disability, long term disability, and 2x annual salary life insurance/AD&D protects you when the unexpected occurs.
- Retirement Readiness . You can immediately participate in our 401(k) program through Fidelity Investments with a company match of 66 2/3% up to 6% and the flexibility of pre-tax, Roth and after-tax contributions.
- A Family Focused Culture. Four weeks of paid parental bonding leave, plus paid maternity leave and adoption assistance.
- Community Involvement. Eight hours of paid time to volunteer at one of TICF’s community partners.
- Customer First
- One TICF
- Mindset of Continuous Improvement
- Demonstrate Inclusive Behaviors
- Learn, Grow, Develop
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