Advantest has embarked on a digital transformation journey, which is a key enabler for our continuous business growth. We are building a scalable and modular architecture for Advantest, with a prime focus on efficient and effective processes and data.
Your contribution
- As part of the global transformation, your focus will be our global Advantest architecture. You will shape our globally harmonized business processes with the required trusted business data, incorporating the business capabilities and required applications. Special love and care are needed for our data model and data integration.
- Responsible primarily for projects and data / system structure in the domains of product & part as well as Supply Chain; responsible for interface between product development lifecycle and all downstream processes and where they need part data (downstream processes such as Sales, Supply Chain, Service Assurance).
- Act as a consultant to partner effectively with business users, partners and suppliers. You will work as well closely with the IT Platform Architects and Integration Architects across the various core source system, improve the structure and set up for our Advantest Architecture, contributing to different transformation project teams.
- Develop and maintain a scalable, integrated and modular architecture to strengthen and enhance our Advantest operating model.
- Ensure that new solutions design fit into the target architecture and achieve our holistic end to end design principles.
- Support transformation projects by establishing optimized data models in the source systems, document the data model; also govern together with Global Data Warehouse Team the data model in the data warehouse.
- Develop and implement comprehensive strategies for improving the data governance, including the data foundation, data model, data integration and data quality.
- Mentor business users on data ownership and drive a data driven culture and mentality.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Mathematics, Economics, Computer Science, Information Management or comparable.
- Must have significant experience working as Data Architect in transformation projects in different process areas, like Sales / SADM, Operations and Supply Chain Management, Human Resources or Finance
- Good experience in product & part data and how product development lifecycle and all downstream processes are interfacing and where they need part data
- Must have good business and process knowledge how process and data fit together E2E and company wide
- Solid experience with enterprise architecture, data modeling and governance frameworks
- Knowledge of TOGAF, Archimate, Sparks, Lean Six Sigma, BPMN2.0 or similar are key
- Technical expertise regarding data models in source systems such as ERP, MRP, MES, PLM;
- Knowledge of and experience with Microsoft Azure, database design development, data mining and segmentation techniques; programming (Python, XML, or ETL frameworks)
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills in a global environment, ability to translate technical language into simple business language
- Good knowledge of English is a must, written and spoken; German or Japanese is a plus
- Self-starter with analytical mindset, ability to delve into technical details as well as manage key business stakeholders
