IT Solutions Architect

About the Role

The IT Solutions Architect is a technology partner for the NESL Materials and Construction lines of business. The Solutions Architect works as an internal consultant to evaluate all business requirements and come up with solutions in the form of products or services. The Solutions Architect oversees defining the solution as well as actively leading the technical vision to success.

The Solution Architect will support a broad set of application areas including Sales, Dispatch & Logistics, Trucking & Telematics, Estimating & Costing, Maintenance & Repair, and Business Analytics.

Location and Schedule

This position is assigned to the NESL Corporate office located in New Enterprise, PA. The Analyst is a collaborative, customer facing contributor who will spend 2 days per week in the office with other team members. Travel to plants, work sites, or other area offices to learn and understand business objectives and processes or provide training and system go-live support will be required from time to time. Travel may involve overnight stays – including multiple days.

What Will You Do?

Business Analysis

• Develop and demonstrate an understanding of customer and business needs.
• Identify technology projects for process, efficiency, and cost improvements.
• Collaborate with Business Analyst and Customers to perform cost-benefit/ROI analysis to evaluate potential projects.
• Support creation of the charter, budget, and high-level requirements for projects as part of the project intake process.
• Perform business process modeling and process engineering.
• Create and maintain business and functional requirements.
• Produce wireframes and flow diagrams to describe user / system interactions.

Solution Design and Delivery

• Identify, define, and evaluate all business and technical requirements.
• Design and develop a solution portfolio to address business goals and objectives.
• Identify risks, propose solutions, and provide guidance for the proposed solution.
• Work as part of a cross-functional team including Project Managers, Analysts, Business Users, other IT Staff, and Third-Party Vendors to deliver technology projects.
• Resolve technical problems as they arise.
• Document and share best practices.
• Prepare training materials and facilitate training sessions with system users.
• Support User Acceptance testing for all projects.
• Design, build, and implement data integrations between business applications.
• Design, build, and implement reports, dashboards, and data visualizations.
• Design, build, and implement simple apps for data capture and workflows.

Application / Technical Support

• Provide functional and technical support for assigned systems and business units.
• Develop plans to implement and/or support new product/service releases and ensure they are managed according to the NESL Policy.
• Monitor, manage, troubleshoot, and tune system and database settings, configurations, resources, and performance.

Other

• Maintain technical expertise through training, conferences, and networking events.
• Develop and maintain knowledge of industry trends and best practices.
• Perform other related duties as assigned and required.

Requirements - Who Are We Looking For?

• Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or related field.
• Four (4) or more years of equivalent experience may be considered in lieu of degree.
• Five (5) or more years of any combination of system, network, database, and application administration.
• Demonstrated experience working as a member of a cross-functional project team.
• Experience with system modeling, data modeling, report writing tools, and SQL.
• Strong documentation skills including architecture diagrams, system maps, configuration guides, troubleshooting guides, and FAQs.
• Ability to perform business process modeling and derive models into business and functional system requirements.

What Is a NESL Career?

• BUILD AMERICA - Our work goes directly toward rebuilding America's infrastructure
• Contribute to a sustainable future improving the lives of people and communities we serve.
• Collaborate in an open culture where sound values and dedicated people come together for greater results.
• Thrive in a people-driven family owned company with countless opportunities to learn and grow.

NESL is a privately held family-owned company, priding itself on being Pennsylvania’s largest construction materials producer/supplier and not to mention, leader in heavy highway construction. Founded in 1924, NESL boasts over 1,800 coworkers helping To Build America From the Ground Up! Headquartered in New Enterprise, PA, our footprint encompasses 57 quarries, 3 sand deposits, 33 hot mix asphalt plants, 21 fixed and portable ready mix concrete plants and 1 lime distribution center throughout PA and Western NY.

And…we are GROWING!

New Enterprise Stone & Lime Co., Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other characteristics protected by law. New Enterprise Stone & Lime Co., Inc. is a background screening, drug-free workplace.

All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply.