Headquartered in Southern California, Skechers has spent 30 years helping men, women and kids everywhere look and feel good. Developing comfort technologies is at the foundation of all that we do—delivering stylish, innovative, and quality products at a reasonable price. From our diverse footwear offering to a growing range of apparel and accessories, Skechers is a complete lifestyle brand.

With international business representing over half of our total sales, we have product available in more than 180 countries and significant opportunities for continued expansion worldwide. We sell our collections direct to consumers through more than 4,450 Skechers stores around the globe and Skechers e-commerce sites, as well as through a network of third-party partners.

A MULTI-BILLION-DOLLAR GLOBAL LEADER IN THE FOOTWEAR INDUSTRY.

As a techno-functional member of the SKECHERS USA, Inc. Information Technology team, this role will contribute to the management and ongoing support and implementation of applications within the SKECHERS finance systems portfolio.

This role will primarily support integrations and automations within the finance systems ecosystem while being a part of a team who serve as a project lead, partnering with the business, and other areas within IT, to be the go-to integration support for the Finance and Accounting global end-user community. This role will work with stakeholders, analyze system problems, application data and business processes, create integration solutions, perform testing, identify ways to make processes more efficient and offer continuous improvement recommendations that meets business objectives and user needs. 

JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES-

• Act as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for integrations used across all finance applications
• Plan, evaluate, and oversee the integration of systems to ensure that legacy and future finance applications work together efficiently
• Responsible for creating and maintaining functional specifications, integration design documents, business process workflows, data flow diagrams and related documentation for new development projects and enhancements to be used by IT
• Participate in efforts to reengineer and optimize business processes using integration solutions to gain efficiencies and reduce manual effort of stakeholders
• Cross-functional collaboration and communication to quickly understand, troubleshoot, find root cause, and resolve issues
• Support the Software Engineering team during the development process via research, requirements gathering, managing tickets, and testing to ensure code performs as designed and meets integration requirements
• Execute functional, integration, and regression test plans for new application functionality, product releases and enhancement, and regulatory modifications using business scenarios
• Responsible for mapping data from source system to target system
• Actively participate in data conversion and data cleansing efforts
• Interacts directly with application teams, subject matter experts, and third-party application experts determine the business needs for interfaces/integration needs, input and output requirements and evaluate processes and procedures
• Partner with key business stakeholders and multi-departments to build a continuous improvement environment to support an ongoing program of transformation
• Ensure consistency and best practice to the integration approach, enabling the acquired target to be successfully integrated and measured, ensuring all learnings are captured and utilized to enhance the process
• Support for internal teams with usage guides, training, troubleshooting and other technical assistance
• Other duties as assigned

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES-

• No

CORE SKILLS/REQUIREMENTS-

• Working knowledge of Integration tools is a must.  Experience with Boomi, Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) and/or Alteryx is extremely helpful
• Knowledge of software support life cycle and testing practices
• Advanced analytical capability
• Highly motivated individual with desire to influence change on a large scale
• Takes personal responsibility to improve processes and systems
• Ability to conceptualize, formulate, and succinctly convey complex solutions to a wide audience
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent documentation skills using Microsoft Office, Visio/LucidChart, Smartsheet, Confluence
• Demonstrated innovation and creativity, considers different approaches to issue resolution
• Excellent relationship building skills, able to build trust with stakeholders
• Demonstrated track record of process improvement and desire to implement best practices
• Excellent organizational skills, ability to handle multiple tasks and deadlines
• Positive, proactive, and self-motivated
• Must have high degree of accuracy, results-oriented, highly accountable
• Adaptable, flexible in a changing environment, comfortable with ambiguity
• Ability to work independently as well as in a team environment
• Works well in a fast-paced environment with tight timelines for deliverables

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE-

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Database Administration, or equivalent professional experience
• 8 years of hands-on progressive integration analyst experience working with flat-file integrations as well as APIs (REST & SOAP)
• Knowledge of any RDMS SQL queries and any NoSQL database data fetch.
• Knowledge of JSON and XML protocol and Extract Transform Load (ETL) for data mapping
• Knowledge of any common Cloud based service like AWS, Azure and/or GCP from Integrations perspective
• Knowledge and Expertise in any programming language like Python, Java, Javascript, Groovi, C++, etc
• Experience integrating with Oracle Cloud SaaS is an added advantage.
• Working knowledge of the integration process between core finance systems modules and boundary applications.
• Proven ability to understand data flows and data relationships to troubleshoot integration issues, create meaningful reports and queries, and provide solution suggestions to management
• Experience supporting full Agile and Waterfall software development lifecycles (SDLC) including understanding business processes, gathering user requirements, design, testing, deployment, and training
• Proven ability to communicate, motivate and organize integration projects
• Experience using systems designed to manage issues, changes, and testing (ServiceNow, Jira)
• Problem solving ability with a strong technical aptitude to perform root cause analysis
• Experience in the retail industry, helpful, but not required

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Salary range for this position is $64,480 - $150,000/year 

Benefits:

• Paid Parental Leave: including time for fathers and adopting parents.
• Short term & long term disability and life insurance at no cost to the employee.
• Extensive medical, dental, and vision plans with multiple carries, including EPO,HPN and PPO plans.
• Competitive 401k plan and employer matching.
• Health Savings Account (HSA) and Flexible Savings Account (FSA) offerings.
• Paid vacation, sick, personal and holiday time.
• Pet Insurance available.
• Onsite wellness programs at company headquarters including fitness classes, acupuncture, and chiropractor.
• Employee stock purchase program
• Employee product discount of 50%; employee sample sales and family and friends discount throughout the year. 
• Skechers Company Culture and growth strategy is deeply infused with internal career growth and opportunities for learning.