Application Architect

About the Team

Joining the Stanley Black & Decker team means joining one of the world’s largest, fastest growing, and most dynamic companies. Stanley Black & Decker is unique in that we’ve got a rich and storied history dating back to 1843, but that hasn’t stopped us from evolving into a vibrant, diverse, global growth company poised and ready for the future.

Being a part of our team means living our core values of

• courage & innovation
• agility & performance
• inclusivity & collaboration
• integrity & accountability

It means thriving in an environment of constant innovation and positive change. It means delivering tools, services, and solutions that the world counts on when it really matters. It means maintaining the highest standards in everything you do, every day.

Key Responsibilities:

Responsible for engaging stakeholders, customers, providing technical and functional expertise to provide vision, oversight, and coordination across portfolio of technical solutions being developed in that domain. Develops, maintains, and communicates processes and standard practices related to the high-level design, development, and implementation of solutions across portfolio of projects and enhancements in the domain. Ensures solutions meet business needs along with architecturally significant functional and nonfunctional requirements. Works with the business to define technology roadmaps. Helps to ensure outside partners are educated on approved technical solutions and works with those partners to ensure requirements are met.

Key activities:

• Translates business domain understanding and context to technical capabilities for technical architects and development teams. ​

• Accountable for collaborating with business relationship managers and business stakeholders to understand business requirements, identifying solution gaps and available capabilities, and defining solutions to meet the business need. ​

• Supports to research the market and approve Make vs Buy options to meet business requirements​

• Provide support to document high level design of solutions​

• Helps to define the effort and skills required to implement solutions​

• Ensure work scope is maintained and solutions are implemented, managing approved Changes​

• Conducts application scan and risk review to validate privacy, security, and risk policies are met​

• Responsible for examining the current systems architecture and working with business and technical staff to recommend solutions that result in more effective systems​

• Guide on how to leverage technology to solve a business problem​

• Work closely in collaboration with Enterprise Architecture to shape EA guardrails, standards and patterns​

• Understand and align solutions with Enterprise Architecture principles, guardrails, standards, patterns, and frameworks. ​

• Works with outside partners to ensure SBD requirements are met

Functional Skills

• Knowledge and understanding of BY/JDA Warehouse Management System
• Business acumen
• Familiarity with SDLC methodologies (Waterfall and Agile / Scrum / Iterative Development)
• ITFS Project Methodology knowledge
• Ability to tie together solutions across systems
• Application domain knowledge
• Understanding of current and future technologies
• Oral & written communications
• Business case development
• Estimation of project scope/duration
• Ability to simplify & standardize complex concepts / processes

Technical Skills

• Blue Yonder/JDA - MOCA, Report Writer, Jasper, Java, C+, .NET
• Blue Yonder/JDA - Integration Technologies and tools
• Blue Yonder/JDA – System Setups and Configuration
• SQL (Oracle or SQL Server)
• Version Control (SVN)
• Integration Technologies
• Infrastructure technologies, including cloud computing / SaaS / IaaS / PaaS technologies
• Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
• Big Data Analytics, Data Architecture & Modeling
• Web/Mobile Technologies
• Expertise in application technologies/platforms/capabilities with a broader understanding of the overall environment

Behavioral Skills

• Ability to influence
• Ability to execute
• Ability to prioritize and make trade-off decisions
• Adaptability / ability to manage change
• Interpersonal skills
• Problem solving / analytical thinking
• Creative thinking
• Conceptual thinking
• Teamwork and collaboration
• Strong growth mindset

Education/Experience

• Undergraduate degree and 8-10 years relevant experience, or
• Graduate degree and 6-8 years relevant experience.

Physical Requirement/Work Location (On Site Critical, Partial Virtual, Fully Remote)

• Fully Remote

We Don’t Just Build The World, We Build Innovative Technology Too.

Joining the Stanley Black & Decker team means working in an innovative, tech-driven and highly collaborative team environment supported by over 58,000 professionals in 60 countries across the globe. Here, you’ll get the unique chance to impact some of the world’s most iconic brands including STANLEY TOOLS, DEWALT, CRAFTSMAN, MAC TOOLS and Black + Decker. Your ideas and solutions have the potential to reach millions of customers as we work together to write the next chapter in our history. Come build with us and take your career to new heights.

Who We Are

We’re the World’s largest tool company. We’re industry visionaries. We’re solving problems and advancing the manufacturing trade through innovative technology and our Industry 4.0 Initiative. We are committed to ensuring our state-of-the-art “smart factory” products and services provide greater quality to our customers & greater environmental and social value to our planet. We are unique in that we have a rich and storied history dating back to 1843, but that hasn't stopped us from evolving into a vibrant, diverse, global growth company.

Global Benefits & Perks

You’ll be rewarded with a competitive salary plus receive entitlements and benefits unique to your country of hire.

What You’ll Also Get

Career Opportunity: Career paths aren’t linear here. Being part of our global company with 60+ brands gives you the chance to grow and develop your skills along multiple career paths.

Learning & Development:

Our lifelong learning philosophy means you’ll have access to a wealth of state-of-the-art learning resources, including our Lean Academy and online university (where you can get certificates and specializations from renowned colleges and universities).

Diverse & Inclusive Culture:

We pride ourselves on being an awesome place to work. We respect and embrace differences because that’s how the best work gets done. You’ll find we like to have fun here, too.

Purpose-Driven Company:

You’ll help us continue to make positive changes in the local communities where we work and live as well as in the broader world through volunteerism, giving back and sustainable business practices.