Senior Solution Architect - Finance

About the role

At Andersen, we see possibility everywhere, every day and in everything we do. The possibility for our employees to achieve their full potential, for our communities to be stronger and for everyone to have a healthier, happier place to live. Our portfolio of brands — Andersen Windows & Doors, Renewal by Andersen and Fenetres MQ — is crafted to serve customers across the new residential, home improvement and light commercial building sector. Join our more than 13,000 employees who are inspired every day to deliver exceptional experiences that turn possibility into reality.

The Senior Solution Architect - Finance guides the development and management of technology solutions across the Finance portfolio, with a focus on key initiatives that improve automation, organizational effectiveness, and scalable business processes. This position provides leadership, analysis, and design expertise to ensure Finance solutions meet business needs, align with architectural governance and standards, and support efficient, well-controlled ways of working. The role serves as a strategic partner to Finance leaders and process owners, jointly developing Finance capability roadmaps, shaping initiative priorities, identifying dependencies, and recommending the appropriate sequencing of process, data, and technology investments. The role partners with Tech & Data product and project teams, and enterprise architects to connect business strategy with practical technology roadmaps and sustainable solution architecture. This is a hybrid role based out of our Oak Park Heights, MN office location.

Responsibilities

• Translates business and technical requirements into an architectural blueprint to achieve business objectives and documents solution architecture design and analysis work.
• Partners with Finance process owners to assess whether processes should be standardized, simplified, redesigned, or automated before recommending technology solutions.
• Promotes adoption of common enterprise processes and limits customization unless a documented business, regulatory, or control requirement exists.
• Monitors the current-state solution portfolio to identify deficiencies through aging of the technologies used by the application, or misalignment with business requirements.
• Supports product managers in end-of-life product decisions to maintain, refresh or retire services or systems, including applications, technologies, processes and information.
• Analyzes the technology industry, competitors, and market trends, and determines their potential implications for a given solution.
• Facilitates the evaluation, selection and TCO of software product standards and services, as well as the design of standard and custom software configurations.
• Ensures Finance solutions incorporate appropriate security, privacy, segregation-of-duties, approval, reconciliation, audit-trail, records-retention, resiliency, and financial-control requirements from initial design through implementation.
• Leads architecture governance by defining and promoting solution architecture principles, standards, reference architectures, and design patterns, while guiding product owners, architects, and agile teams to ensure technology investments and solution designs are aligned with enterprise architecture strategy, governance requirements, and future-state objectives.
• Provides deliverables like standard definitions, reference models and architecture designs to support architectural governance to assess the impact of new and ongoing technology investment.
• Coaches and mentors other technical or solution architects.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, IT, engineering, system analysis or a related study, or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of eight years of business process experience in finance.
• Minimum of eight years of experience in IT disciplines, including technical or infrastructure architecture, network management, application development, middleware, database management or cloud development.
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