Solution Architect & Design Authority

As Solution Architect & Design Authority you will act as the overall design lead for the Kinaxis platform, and you will therefore be accountable for ensuring changes to the design and configuration of the platform both meet business requirements, but ensure continued optimal operation of the platform.

Client Details

Our Client is an international company from Consumer Goods sector. For their developing IT HUB in Warsaw we are looking to hire experienced candidate for the position of Solution Architect & Design Authority

Description

• Fully understand Supply Network Operations strategy, expected outcome, deliverables and value that needs to be generated from Technology
• Reviews the functional end to end solution design to confirm its suitability in regard to business requirements
• Ensure changes on Integrated Planning solution do not impact upstream/downstream systems, identifying the changes required in upstream/downstream system to be compliant
• Manages and approves new functionalities/changes technical design proposals
• Accountable for and leading definition of platform/products architecture. Ensures products adherence to company architecture/design principles and policies, working with colleagues from Enterprise Architecture
• Ensures the existing and 'out of the box' functionalities are leveraged as much as possible instead of developing new customizations
• Approves/assures solution developments made by outsourced DevOps partners. Validates the delivered product to confirm its readiness for unit testing, UAT and compliance with approved design
• Manages and prioritizes 3rd Party development work executed by DevOps partners
• Support the business and IDT Business Analysts to translate business requirements into technology requirements and recommended projects and/or changes requests, considering existing available solutions, the future technology roadmap and your knowledge of external vendors' capabilities
• Work with project teams and Architecture teams to articulate the IDT architecture and integration implications of new technology projects
• Support the evaluation and assessment of the degree of conformance that new solutions have on existing IDT policies and rules
• Provides support to 3rd Party DevOps team in case of complex solution related issues

Profile

• Degree Educated, with 4+ ears post graduate work experience working with Supply Chain Planning solutions
• Deep understanding of Supply Chain Planning processes and practical experience of improvement of these processes leveraging technology
• Deep experience in our preferred Supply Chain Planning Solutions of choice is highly desirable: Kinaxis RapidResponse, and in general experience in deploying cloud-based Supply Chain Planning solutions
• Certification in Kinaxis (i.e. author and/or contributor levels) is highly desirable
• Previous experience in designing solutions and/or configuration of software packages operating in a SaaS environment
• Previous experience in defining solutions architecture
• Experience in Data and Integration architecture and design would be additional benefit (including Talend Data Integration platform)
• Experience in large global organisations using in-sourced and out-sourced IDT (IT) service providers
• Ability to work independently and be self-motivated to plan own work to meet overall goals and objectives
• Strong facilitation, influencing and negotiation skills
• Effective communication and relationship management - experience working with business stakeholders across various business functions,
• Experience in managing 3rd party vendors' work
• Robust team work demonstrated both within and outside the IDT function - Ability to generate trust, build alliances, and orchestrate interdisciplinary matrix teams, with internal and external participants
• Awareness and understanding of Lean-Agile project management and solution development methodologies and frameworks e.g. Dev Ops and SAFe.

Job Offer

• Attractive salary and benefit package
• Possibility to work remotely from home