Solutions Architect - Transportation

The Solutions Architect – Transportation is responsible for providing consultation to the Global Information Services (GIS) organization and business units on the relevance and appropriate application of technology. The Solutions Architect will understand the design solutions and business processes that fulfill the business requirements.  This position is accountable for ensuring that the application and integration of transportation and other logistics execution technology is done in a manner consistent with the Owens Corning enterprise architecture and standards.  This position is responsible for collaborating with and educating others across the organization and supporting technology for transportation related logistics platforms.

The successful candidate for this role is a student of technology, maintains market awareness, and is networked into logistics internally and externally.  They are accountable for keeping up to date on new and emerging developments in IT solutions and are expected to gain a working level understanding of these technologies by pursuing opportunities to gain practical knowledge through professional events, peer networks, or formal training. The Solutions Architect – Transportation will identify opportunities to integrate new technology with the current environment to address business opportunities.

To excel in this role, it is crucial to possess a natural curiosity for technology and a keen interest in researching and defining ways to optimize processes within the logistics domain.

Reports to:                       Functional IT Leader - Logistics

Span of Control:               Individual contributor

Knowing Our Businesses and their Strategies  

• Develop and maintain a strong understanding of Owens Corning specific business processes and operations globally
• Build relationships within the organization, cross-functionally, and with key business stakeholders; continuously enhance connection to remain aligned with core objectives

• Collaborate with Domain Architects, peers, and other IS leaders in the development and ongoing sustainment of the 3-year transportation IT Roadmap for the Owens Corning technology environment.
• Work with process leaders, and project teams to identify and define integration opportunities for the appropriate technologies.
• Ensure technology that is being delivered is contemporary and aligned with the IT Roadmap.
• Ensure the performance, support, sustainability, and life cycle management of logistics solutions are engineered in the design stage

Executing Strategy

Technology Leadership & Development

• Define, design, build and oversee the implementation and rollout of ERP functional solutions based on SAP S/4 HANA for Transportation Management and cloud-based solutions that support business processes.
• Work with others to define project scope, based on workshops with business representatives, and knowledge of our landscape and solutions.
• Ideates on solutions to complex requirements.
• Reviews blueprints as outlined by the functional subject matter expert, of requirements and solutions.
• Assists our implementation partner with systems build activities including configuration, master data, investigation of enhancement points, and integrations, and writing functional specifications, unit testing etc.
• Collaborate with the program and business teams to ensure continuous business and IT alignment with no future gaps.
• Collaborate with functional and IT teams working closely within the Transportation Management track, especially IT Architecture, Master Data, Procurement, Manufacturing, etc.
• Own overall inventory of workflows, reports, interfaces, conversions, enhancements and forms (WRICEFs) for the area of TM.
• Partner with others to maintain an awareness of Owens Corning business strategy to identify opportunities to apply technological solutions to upcoming business problems.
• Ensures quality assurance on the design and implementation of technology solutions
• Design and drive the implementation of seamless and efficient transportation platforms
• Collaborate with others to address the feasibility of technology solutions.
• Identify technical and implementation risks associated with a technology solution.
• Consult with project planners to develop statements of work for proposed solutions including estimates that address assumptions, resources, integration points and risks for transportation solutions
• Leads execution technology assessments & POCs within transportation function(s)
• Manage external providers of development capacity as needed

Influencing in the Function

• Aligns and updates OC Enterprise Reference Model for business processes within the domain.
• Maintain the functional specification architecture documentation including the OC Enterprise Reference Model for all transportation process areas. 
• Identify areas of waste (process, time, etc.) and ideate and execute action plans to create productivity
• Lead or participate in special projects that support the long-term strategic goals of the business and/or organization
• Identify opportunities to improve effectiveness, value, and perception of the function

Developing Talent

• Invest in personal growth and development, clearly focused on self-learning
• Provide guidance to early career engineers and offer technical mentoring as they progress in their professional development
• Always strive to elevate the capabilities of the team and GIS organization across the company, drive change management, and technology adoption

• Innovative – develops and introduces new ideas and approaches to others
• Curious – is driven to understand how and why things operate, finds root causes through analysis and questioning
• Inventive Flexibility - seeks out ways to leverage investments by integrating new requirements into existing solutions.
• Service Mindset– voluntarily initiates and takes lead roles in challenging work without explicit direction

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, management information systems (MIS), or equivalent degree
• Minimum of 8 years of experience within Information Technology industry
• Minimum of 5 years of experience with SAP Logistics Execution, Sales & Distribution
• Minimum of 5 years of experience with SAP Transportation Management (9.0 or higher)

EXPERIENCE:

• Prior SAP/ECC.6.0 and TM 9.0 and greater deployment experience in all phases of the ASAP methodology
• Prior experience with SAP TM Event Manager
• Prior experience with SAP S4 HANA / SAP Cloud Applications preferred

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES:

• Ability to partner effectively with team members, business partners, and 3rd party partners
• Ability to identify, own, and prioritize tasks to meet project milestones
• Designed all or key modules of a custom business application from scratch, including technical design, data relationships, UIs, and system interfaces.
• Experiencing working in a highly matrixed structure across functional, business, geographic and cultural boundaries
• Strong written and oral communication skills to convey relevant information clearly with confidence; understanding others through active listening; successfully sets and manages expectations
• Led functional assessment of applications as a part of a new technology evaluation and selection process.    
• Led proof of concept project(s) to validate the applicability of a new technology to a business process, including accountability for the summary report-out of findings.
• Organized and executed IT process development /solution design review with external suppliers
• Ability to travel domestically or internationally as required up to 20%

About Owens Corning  

Owens Corning is a residential and commercial building products leader committed to building a sustainable future through material innovation. Our products provide durable, sustainable, energy-efficient solutions that leverage our unique capabilities and market-leading positions to help our customers win and grow. We are global in scope, human in scale with more than 25,000 employees in 31 countries dedicated to generating value for our customers and shareholders and making a difference in the communities where we work and live. Founded in 1938 and based in Toledo, Ohio, USA, Owens Corning posted 2024 sales of $11.0 billion. For more information, visit www.owenscorning.com. 

Owens Corning is an equal opportunity employer. Except in limited circumstances such as formal apprenticeship programs, Owens Corning does not employ anyone under the age of 18.