IBM Maximo Solution Architect

Date: Aug 10, 2024

Location: New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

Company: Entergy

Work Place Flexibility: Hybrid

Legal Entity: Entergy Services, Inc.-ESI (OLD)

This position can be filled in one of the following locations: New Orleans, LA, Houston or The Woodlands, TX, Little Rock, AR, or Jackson, MS. Relocation may be required. Relocation Assistance is not available for this role.

Job Summary/Purpose

Responsible for supporting the innovative development of business solutions, implemented through IT, to enable the business to meet its objectives. Requires a solid understanding of available IT technologies, the business unit's operations, its operating model, capability needs, and business challenges. Together with support from Entergy's Enterprise Architect (EA) function and IT Centers of Expertise (COE), are responsible for creating a fully integrated, effective business solution. An active thought partner, with the EA and BU CIO to help shape the technology demand among the business unit. This position will provide support for the Maximo application and the applications that it interfaces with. Key business partners include Nuclear, Procurement & Supply Chain, and Accounting.

Job Duties/Responsibilities

• Assist in the creation of design guidelines for software and hardware integration, performance, reliability, operating, and security designs. Support business units in the creation of project business cases (e.g., success criteria).

• Capture business capability requirements, functional requirements, and expected service levels from business unit and stated EA solutions to create an actionable business-IT roadmap for Maximo. Create the integration points of new business solution with legacy systems to satisfy client's requirements as needed.

• Support BU CIOs in identifying opportunities for emerging technologies to enable business strategies. Provide an advisory role with the client on the impact of new technologies on their existing technical and information system environment.

• Work with BA, PM, and QA teams to review test strategies and requirements traceability. Ensure business and functional requirements are maintained throughout the development/configuration process (requirements traceability matrix). Review and analyze user acceptance testing results.

• Maintain an understanding of technology needs and solutions for business unit. Regularly visit business units to assess satisfaction and identify follow-up education opportunities. Consider alternate delivery models for meeting business needs.

• Liaise between the client, vendors, project management and the technical team on questions, issues, and revisions to the solution architecture.

• Any other duties as needed to support the needs of the business.

Minimum Requirements

Minimum education required of the position.

Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience required. Equivalent experience is defined as 10 or more years working with the Maximo application or similar applications with experience in the Supply Chain and/or nuclear lines of business.

Minimum experience required of the position.

4+ years of experience working with Maximo and how it supports the business.

Minimum knowledge, skills, and abilities required of the position.

• Entry-level understanding of Energy industry application solutions.

• Entry-level experience in developing customer-centric solutions.

• Working knowledge in most areas of technology (infrastructure, commercial applications, software development, end-user platforms, IT operations).

• Planning experience, especially the design of longer-term strategies.

• Ability to communicate and present effectively with all levels in the organization.

• Good interpersonal communications skills.

• Excellent writing and presentation skills.

• Working knowledge of architecture concepts and the ability to integrate business needs and technology capabilities.

Any certificates, licenses, etc. required of the position.

None

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Primary Location: Louisiana-New Orleans Louisiana : New Orleans || Arkansas : Little Rock || Mississippi : Jackson || Texas : Houston || Texas : The Woodlands

Job Function : All Other Jobs

FLSA Status : Professional

Relocation Option: No Relocation Offered

Union description/code : NON BARGAINING UNIT

Number of Openings : 1

Req ID: 115161

Travel Percentage :Up to 25%

An Equal Opportunity Employer, Minority/Female/Disability/Vets. Please clickhere (https://jobs.entergy.com/content/EEO/?locale=en_US) to view the EEI page, or see statements below.

EEO Statement: The Entergy System of Companies provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a protected veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. The Entergy System of Companies complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment including, but not limited to, recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

The Entergy System of Companies expressly prohibits any form of unlawful employee harassment based on race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status. Improper interference with the ability of the Entergy System of Company employees to perform their expected job duties is absolutely not tolerated.

Accessibility: Entergy provides reasonable accommodations for online applicants. Requests for a reasonable accommodation may be made orally or in writing by an applicant, employee, or third party on his or her behalf. If you are an individual with a disability and you are in need of an accommodation for the recruiting process please click here (humanr@entergy.com?subject=Accessibility) and provide your name, contact number, the accommodation requested and the requisition number that you are requesting the accommodation for. Employee Services will contact you regarding your request.

Additional Responsibilities: As a provider of essential services, Entergy expects its employees to be available to work additional hours, to work in alternate locations, and/or to perform additional duties in connection with storms, outages, emergencies, or other situations as deemed necessary by the company. Exempt employees may not be paid overtime associated with such duties.

Entergy Pay Transparency Policy Statement: The Entergy System of Companies (the Company) will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the Company’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c). Equal Opportunity (https://www.dol.gov/agencies/ofccp/manual/fccm/2l-equal-opportunity-clauses-and-other-requirements/2l00-equal-opportunity) and Pay Transparency (https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/OFCCP/pdf/pay-transp_%20English_formattedESQA508c.pdf) .

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The non-confidential portions of the affirmative action program for individuals with disabilities and protected veterans shall be available for inspection upon request by any employee or applicant for employment. Please contact HRCompliance@entergy.com to schedule a time to review the affirmative action plan during regular office hours.

WORKING CONDITIONS:

As a provider of essential services, Entergy expects its employees to be available to work additional hours, to work in alternate locations, and/or to perform additional duties in connection with storms, outages, emergencies, or other situations as deemed necessary by the company. Exempt employees may not be paid overtime associated with such duties.

Please note: Authorization to work in the United States is a precondition to employment in this position. Entergy will not sponsor candidates for work visas for this position.

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