HNI Corporation is a global family of brands for the workplace and home dedicated to enhancing the spaces where we live, work, and gather. We pride ourselves on fostering an environment where we make a positive impact on others; upholding our beliefs in integrity, inclusion and belonging.

HNI Corporation, an industry leader in workplace furnishings and building products, is in search of a Solution Architect (Oracle EBS Suite) to join our team! This is a hybrid-position that will require regular onsite presence at our headquarters in Muscatine, IA. Relocation assistance and sponsorship are available for qualified candidates.

Our solution architect will be responsible for providing solution options that leverage our strategic platforms and applications that the systems naturally provide thru configuration, and working with business partners, proactively identifies potential areas where business processes, policies, procedures may require change.

As our Solution Architect, you will develop, promote, and monitor adherence to integration standards and will design solutions to meet our operational requirements such as scalability, maintainability, security, reliability, extensibility, and flexibility. You will leverage your deep understanding of integration technologies and practices as well as your business acumen to develop overarching system designs. You also will review the development, implementation, maintenance, and support of designs and provide oversight for applications within your team. This involves the uniformity of application implementations, proper performance of those applications, and forward-looking planning and development within the enterprise.

WHAT YOU WILL DO:

Partner with the business:

• Analyze business needs and define detailed requirements based on desired outcomes and develop new solutions (including new processes and policy changes, new system capabilities and/or configurations needed), with the business community, and recommend potential alternatives.
• Ensures that the Solution Design aligns with our Enterprise Architecture standards and technical application management standards, and act at the shepherd to gain approval through our project process – even if the solution deviates from our standards. Working with the Enterprise Architecture and Technical Architecture functions.
• Create and communicate solution overviews and alternatives to technical and business leaders to foster understanding of solution direction and to gain consensus support of the recommended solution approach.
• Collaborate to develop and present business cases for IT investment strategy needed to support application architecture road map.
• Educate stakeholders of application architecture risks to influence change that supports business and IT strategies.

Design and Implement Solutions:

• Develop solutions/approaches (including new process and policy changes) and new system capabilities and/or configurations, partnering with the business community and recommending potential alternatives.
• Create and review functional and technical specifications and validate design/development specifications with technical development teams.
• Ensure holistic solution design, making sure that cross-functional considerations are incorporated into the functional and technical design specifications, focusing on strategic business capabilities and requirements.
• Ensure solutions are aligned with application strategies and identify opportunities, challenges, and migration road map to support strategies.
• Coordinate with stakeholder technical teams to ensure the delivery of a holistic solution design.
• Take the initiative to learn and develop new skills and stay current on new and emerging technologies.

WHAT YOU NEED TO HAVE:

• Minimum 5 years of IT experience; among which minimum 3 years experience in architecture or solution design
• Familiarity with information systems management practices (e.g. ITIL, CMMI, SDLC, etc.)
• Experience with multiple and diverse technology environments and software solutions
• Experience with Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) technologies and methods preferred
• At least 7 years of experience with Oracle ERP implementation and Solution design using Oracle ERP R12.2 .
• At least 7 years of experience in Oracle Order Management, Shipping Execution, Accounts Payable, Receivable, General Ledger, Eb-Tax or Third party Tax solutions and business analytics.
• Good knowledge /understanding of Integration modules with Manufacturing and Warehousing (WIP,BOM,WMS)
• At least 5 years of Experience in Oracle technologies like PL/SQL, Workflows, OAF as well as XML Publisher
• Experience in Oracle Cloud Finance/ Procurement preferrable

WHAT IT HELPS TO HAVE:

• Knowledge of REST APIs and web services, JSON, and XML structures.
• Experience working in the manufacturing industry.
• Extensive business and/or systems analysis skills that support applications development.
• Ability to articulate technical concepts in business terms and present to senior management
• Ability to envision and detail out solutions to meet current and anticipated future business needs

WHAT YOU NEED:

• A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Engineering, or related disciplines.

We look forward to hearing from you!