Sr. Technical Solutions Analyst - Manhattan Beach California

Company: Skechers U.S.A.
Location: Manhattan Beach, California
Posted On: 04/23/2024

Company Description

Headquartered in Southern California, Skechers has spent nearly 30 years helping men, women and kids everywhere look and feel good. Developing comfort technologies is at the foundation of all that we do-delivering stylish, innovative, and quality products at a reasonable price. From our diverse footwear offering to a growing range of apparel and accessories, Skechers is a complete lifestyle brand.

With international business representing over half of our total sales, we have product available in more than 170 countries and significant opportunities for continued expansion worldwide. We sell our collections direct to consumers through more than 4,000 Skechers stores around the globe and Skechers e-commerce sites, as well as through a network of third-party partners.

Job Description

Skechers IT division is transforming our engineering practice by embracing high-performing, cloud native APIs and applications using a modern technology stack that includes serverless, microservices, containers, QA automation, and zero-touch delivery pipelines. Technical Solutions Analyst is a key role within the Software Engineering and Architecture organization, responsible for agile software delivery, have the necessary technical & business acumen to skillfully convert what (requirements) into how (solutions) with the help of the Architects, and be the glue to the engineering teams to deliver as promised. scalable, extensible, portable digital solutions for internal business and technical teams. The Technical Systems Analysts are lead-from-the-front technology and Agile delivery experts deeply dedicated to their projects and business domains. They partner with business analysts to translate requirements into actionable solutions/user stories and lead cross-capability development teams to shepherd those stories into working software solutions.

The Technical Solutions Analysts collaborate and work within high-velocity software engineering teams, bringing expertise in Agile software delivery. Technical Solutions Analysts are passionate, flexible Agile experts who love to practice and hone their craft. The candidate should be an experienced and motivated technologist who possesses a unique balance of technical depth and strong interpersonal skills. Should have excellent design, lead skills showing commitment, end to end vision, planning, integrity, and pragmatic approach to drive organization towards continual success.

Essential Job Responsibilities:

• Own and drive the strategic architecture vision and the technologies required to ensure delivery of business solutions at Skechers.
• Represent the Software Engineering & Architecture group in end-to-end solution conversations with customers and stakeholders.
• Participate in strategizing the modernization of the overall technology ecosystem with the head of Software Engineering and Architecture.
• Demonstrate skills at defining and documenting business and functional requirements for ongoing system improvement initiatives in iterative software development environments and can serve as a liaison between both business and technical teams to drive effective, timely solutions that fulfill both strategic and operational needs.
• Demonstrate leadership skills in driving and owning solutions.
• Participate in providing mentoring support and guidance to team members to help grow skills and capabilities of the Architecture practice at Skechers.
• Engage, collaborate, and partner with Skecher's Digital, Retail, Wholesale, Customer Service, Supply Chain leaders and partners across Business and Technology to understand long and short-term business strategies, provide architecture leadership, and engage in proactive planning of an executable Design.
• Actively contribute to a culture of high performance, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Serve as a subject matter expert in processes and methodologies with the ability to adapt and improvise in different situations.
• Build trust and confidence with solutions to various business stake holders assuring expected tech outcomes and desired results.
• Own the writing and presenting of presentations around end-to-end architecture strategies, solutions, and best practices to stakeholders.
• Working with business closely to collect requirements, converting into functional and tech requirements for internal team to deliver.
• Design solutions and engage with development teams until delivery to review the requirement traceability meeting business needs and expected outcome.
• Define architectural patterns, set standards for tech team to deliver solutions based on previous implementations.
  • Conceptualize and solution for key business use cases in collaboration with Business and Engineering partners.
  • Critical to have a sound knowledge of ERP, Finance, and Order to Cash business domain knowledge.
  • The Sr. Technical Systems Analyst is a mix of both business and technical role, but more emphasis to the technical expertise. The candidate must be competent across many areas of technology (Application, Analytics, Integration, Databases) and in-depth knowledge in a couple of these are highly desirable.
  • Collaborate with integration specialists to develop and implement integrations between Oracle cloud applications and other systems. Design and document technical solutions for finance and supply chain applications using Oracle OCF and OCSC cloud. You will leverage your expertise and understanding of Oracle integration platforms to deliver impactful solutions that meet the business needs.
  • Ability to produce high quality presentations, architecture diagrams, and have strong communication skills.
  • Work with stakeholders to design highly available solutions.
  • Responsible for the macro eco system portfolio of Skechers.
  • Collaborate with Architects to document reference architectures.
  • Break down design plans into actionable project plans.
  • Understand the business & application requirements and translate them into system / technical requirements.
  • Collaborate with the engineering teams, in particular the Solution Architects, to define and validate the technical approach, strategy, and deliverables for the program. As the key member of the team, you'll also prepare and deliver presentations, process flows, update documentation repository and deliver work products.
  • Build and communicate the technology strategy and roadmap for the Skechers platform that will be aligned to the business strategy.
  • Experience in implementing highly scalable web applications and services.
  • Ability to learn quickly to adapt to the changes in the Skechers ecosystem. Qualifications
    • Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or relevant experience in software implementation is desirable but not mandatory.
    • 5+ years of experience with technical systems analysis, solutions, and working with teams on implementations.
    • 3+ years supporting Supply Chain, Order Management or ERP integrations.
    • Extensive experience documenting development requirements, process flows, testing requirements, coordinating code reviews and documentation signoffs.
    • Conversant in both technical and business acumen.
    • Exposure to multiple ERP, OMS, WMS (Oracle is preferred)
    • Basic understanding of the cloud and solution design principles
    • Have experience in analysis and/or implementing enterprise application using cloud platforms
    • Ability to lead user workshops, capture, define/refine requirements, write business and system use cases, design process workflow/activity diagrams; experience with a business process mapping tool is a plus.
    • Huge plus to have the AWS knowledge and understanding of Gateway, Serverless, etc.
    • Prefer domain expertise in an apparel or footwear industry.
    • Prior experience working with Engineering teams.
    • Ability to create good presentations, roadmaps, and work with senior technology leaders.
      
      Additional Information
      
      To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The skills, abilities and physical demands described are representative of those duties that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities, who are otherwise qualified for the job position, to perform the essential functions.
      
      PHYSICAL DEMANDS-
      
      While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; use hands to finger, handle, or feel, and talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to walk; sit, reach with hands and arms, and stoop, kneel. The employee is occasionally required to sit for long period of times.
      
      All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
      
      The salary range for this position is $100,000-$150,000. More...

          

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