SYSTEM CONSULTANT
Date: Aug 22, 2024
Location: MIDLOTHIAN, Texas, US, 76065
Company: Gerdau
YOUR CONTRIBUTION:
- Act as an architect and a catalyst of digital transformation to increase business agility and enable the strategy of the company, as well as the key liaison for his/her functional globally
- Lead and collaborate with the development of best practices, guiding principles, solutions architecture, and roadmaps
- Serve as a subject matter expert working with business processes peers solving problems, and advising on various business-related issues
- Advise and drive the use of technology to streamline business processes
- Collaborate with leadership to develop ideas and solutions to present to business processes peers
- Analyze, gather requirements, design business processes, and define functional specifications to improve efficiency and reduce costs
- Configure, develop, and implement systems, and smoothly integrate them with existing IT business solutions
- Prepare test plan, test scripts for system testing, and functional testing, and implement the plan, as well as support for activities related to data conversion and resolve issues
- Provide system support, end-user training, and document systems use
- Leads the analysis of the current technology environment to detect critical deficiencies, legacy and technical debt, and recommends solutions for improvement
- Participate in projects as a solutions expert
- Lead functional areas and/or support project leadership in implementation projects
- Keep abreast of the latest technologies and market solutions
- Work with Digital IT service providers to provide support to users, to deliver applications enhancements and on project activities
- Develop and maintain strong relationships with business peers to gain their active support for the transformation agenda
- Support leadership in developing and implementing Digital IT roadmaps, such as projects and enhancement
- Develop solution concepts and business cases for new investments
- Coaches, mentors and collaborates with technical subject matter experts and peers to develop technology architecture that enables and drives new business capabilities and operating models
YOUR EXPERTISE:
- Customer-Centric – Focus efforts to ensure internal and external customers thrive
- Communication and Persuasion – Possess solid communication and persuasion skills essential to success in this position. You will represent the Digital IT group effectively and employ negotiation skills that build organizational consensus around a specific course of action while identifying communication barriers and taking action to facilitate mutual understanding.
- Business Acumen – Acknowledge the impact of your actions in local and global contexts while working to generate sustainable value (economic, social, and environmental) for the organization. In addition, you should understand basic business processes and possess the ability to identify and develop workflows and process maps for continual improvement and waste elimination within the business.
- Technical Expertise – Understand all IT functions, cloud technologies, and services in use, and become familiar with the current direction in the infrastructure market
- Strategic Thinking and Vision – Possess a clear sense of the direction of the organization and understand what will create a competitive advantage for the business in the future. Distinguish tactical issues from strategic ones and take action while effectively translating strategic imperatives at the macro level into initiatives and priorities.
- Simplistic Agility – Foster simplicity and agility to focus on what adds value while resolving issues
- Global Perspective – Ability to successfully operate in a global IT organization bringing perspective to daily work while leveraging relationships, expertise, and opportunities across borders taking the company’s strategy and priorities into consideration.
- Accountability – Take initiative and assume personal accountability and ownership for goals, outcomes, and deadlines holding others accountable for achieving individual and organizational objectives.
- Analysis – Possess critical thinking ability and deal systematically with input from a variety of sources to suggest alternative approaches to unfamiliar situations or concepts, as well as strong analytical skills, including an understanding of business economics and financial resources.
- Supplier Management – Possess the ability to engage and manage suppliers as needed for discovery, modeling, implementation, and support.
YOUR CREDENTIALS:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience
- 8 years of System Development and Implementation experience
- Ability to document solutions
- Notions of database management
- Methodological competencies, including Agile Software Development, DevOps, and Test-Driven Development
- Familiarity with Model View Controller (MVC) design patterns, Object-Oriented Programming (OOP), DOM, SPAs, REST, Jamstack
- Knowledge of IT processes, IT functions (development, infrastructure, security, governance), and technology (cloud, big data, architecture, APIs)
- Understanding of full life cycle development
- Experience with APIs, and Web technologies, such as Local Storage, and Web Sockets
- Ability to work with teams in Application Managed Services (AMS) environment driving engagement with an ownership mindset
- Knowledge of Agile, Project Management, and Innovation processes
- Knowledge about Cloud (AWS, MS Azure) and Data solutions
- Experience leading projects
- Understanding of business processes and best practices to provide effective solutions
Nearest Major Market: Dallas
Nearest Secondary Market: Fort Worth