Applications Architect

Applications Architect

     Find your more with Mohawk!
 

At Mohawk Industries, we’re committed to more – more customer solutions, more process improvements, more sustainable manufacturing and more opportunities for our people.

As a Fortune 500, global flooring leader with some of the best-known brands in the industry, Mohawk is a great place to start or develop your career with an emphasis on more of what’s important to you. Come find your “more” with Mohawk!

What we need:

The Applications Architect is a leading performer who manages IT roadmap and integration projects and processes by leveraging creativity and comprehensive operational understanding to resolve a wide range of business issues. This role will contribute to the overall technology strategy and develop solutions that impact multiple departments or job areas.

What you’ll do:

• • Partner with senior business and IT stakeholders to enable information systems capabilities to support our businesses, leveraging deep technical and business knowledge to design solutions to solve business and technical challenges.
  • Provide a holistic view of the applications roadmap (including releases/enhancements/maintenance), technology risks and system health (and their potential impact on the business), and opportunities and challenges.
  • Responsible for the production monitoring and peak season readiness activities for the business unit platforms.
  • Collaborate with the enterprise architecture, application development, infrastructure, and operations teams to ensure production application deployments and any production activities are done without negative business impacts.
  • Ensure extensibility, supportability, performance, and scalability of application platforms.
  • Effectively perform code review for design patterns and performance considerations.
  • Create Use Cases Diagrams using Microsoft Office Visio.
  • Interact with the business partners, IT stakeholders, and development teams.
  • Document the functional flows and update the application documentation.
  • Participate in and may manage large, cross-functional projects or initiatives with strategic importance.
  • Perform high-level critical thinking, detailed information gathering, and application of business knowledge.
  • Collaborate with and may lead functional or cross-functional teams to generate solutions to complex problems.
  • Perform other duties as needed.

What you have:

• • Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent education and/or experience.   
  • 6-8 years’ relevant experience or equivalent education and/or experience.   
  • Completed at least two large-scale ERP, eCommerce, or WMS implementations.
  • Customization experience of application framework (modules, templates), providing fit/gap analysis.
  • Object Oriented Programming expertise must be familiar with industry best practices.
  • Knowledge of major databases including SQL, Oracle, DB2, and HANA.
  • Expertise in integration methods such as ESB, web services (soap, JSON).
  • Must have good knowledge of Design Patterns, Application Servers, Web Servers, Load Balancers, and Unix.

What you’re good at:

• • Requires specialized depth and/or breadth of expertise in own job discipline or field.
  • Recognized cross-functionally as an expert within one or two subject matter areas.
  • Excellent communication, problem-solving, and organizational skills.
  • Able to multitask, prioritize, and manage time effectively.
  • High level of integrity and discretion in handling sensitive and confidential data.
  • Proficient using Microsoft Office Suite products.
  • Flexible attitude, adaptable to change, team player, and able to handle multiple projects at once.
  • High degree of professionalism, judgment, maturity, and resourcefulness in the absence of formalized guidelines and procedures.

What else?

• Temporary indirect reporting relationships may exist while working as a Project lead. May be required to act in a senior role, providing task-related advice and direction to junior team members.

• We’re located in a pretty great spot – check out this video to see what we mean.

Mohawk Industries is a leading global flooring manufacturer that creates products to enhance residential and commercial spaces around the world. Mohawk’s vertically integrated manufacturing and distribution processes provide competitive advantages in the production of carpet, rugs, ceramic tile, laminate, wood, stone and vinyl flooring. Our industry-leading innovation has yielded products and technologies that differentiate our brands in the marketplace and satisfy all remodeling and new construction requirements. Our brands are among the most recognized in the industry and include American Olean, Daltile, Durkan, IVC, Karastan, Marazzi, Mohawk, Mohawk Home, Pergo, and Quick-Step. During the past decade, Mohawk has transformed its business from an American carpet manufacturer into the world’s largest flooring company with operations in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Europe, India, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Russia and the United States.

Mohawk Industries, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer including disability/veteran committed to an inclusive workplace and a proud Drugs Don’t Work participant.