一般情報

英国
都市
リモートロケーション
部門
Development
求人ID:
36242

内容・必要条件

The Solution Architect role provides sales support and delivery leadership, guiding the Infor consulting teams and customers on how to achieve success with their solution through industry and implementation best practices.  


The Solution Architect ensures that the appropriate solution design is positioned in the sales cycle and that the scope of the implementation project stays true to that solution design throughout the transition to delivery and to the point of go-live.


They enable customer success and should ensure that the client realises their desired business outcomes from their investment in Infor.    

The Solution Architect will have industry experience in the Food & Beverage industry. 

 

A Day in The Life Typically Includes 


Specific responsibilities are determined by the individual SA’s leadership and will vary because of the sales or delivery focus and skills of each Solution Architect and the needs of the business.  


Sales and Marketing Support 


  • Post initial qualification, engage collaboratively with Solution Consulting, Software Sales, and Services Sales on significant sales opportunities within their industry practice. 
  • Provide knowledge of the customers’ industry and business during the sales cycle, planning activities. 
  • Determine and recommend an End-to-End solution design, that enables the achievement of the customers’ objectives and desired business outcomes.  
  • Ensure that all necessary Architecture Artefacts are consistently created in the sales phase to a high level of quality and organized and stored using a standard structure and repository.  
  • Ensure that appropriate Infor industry process catalogues (IPC) are positioned and determine the degree of fit to the client’s to-be business processes through Engage workshops.  
  • Challenge the customer where appropriate to encourage adoption of standard IPC processes unless there is a valid business reason not to.  
  • Agree solution scope and ensure fit to standard functionality with minimal modifications. Ensure that any necessary modifications are clearly identified, and the associated risk and cost is understood by the client and internally within Infor. 
  • Contribute proposal content specific to functional/technical area of responsibility and provide input to the effort estimates 
  • Support the development of presentation materials and participate in the on-site customer presentations and demonstrations 

Delivery   



    • Establish and maintain customer relationships at an Executive and Manager level.  
    • Act as the Design Authority to ensure that the scope of the delivered solution reflects the
    • End-to-End design agreed in the sales cycle and highlight deviations from scope to the customer and internally within Infor.  
    • Assist the Infor Practice leadership in helping Infor customers achieve their goals including a successful implementation, a positive business relationship with Infor, and to become and remain satisfied customers of Infor products and services. 
    • Ensure that key Architecture Artifacts created in the sales cycle are developed and refined in a consistent manner and organized and stored effectively using a standard structure and repository, such that they may effectively handover responsibility to an alternative SA should such circumstances arise where this is necessary.  
    • Understand and challenge current business processes and propose viable solutions to the customers’ business issues.
    • Provide solution quality assurance checks at designated milestones in the project
    • Validate that solution designs meet customer project objectives during all project phases. This includes the business value case objectives and technical objectives.
    • Provide leadership to the Project Team to ensure adoption of the prescribed solution through active participation in Scope Confirmation, and Industry Process Catalogue Walk-through, and Blueprint Review where required.  
    • Analyze customers’ systems, to determine optimal levels of operation and software use.   
    • Integrate change acceptance tenets and approaches into the communication of requirements and decisions. 

    Organizational Support and Practice Development 

    • Take an active role in the Architecture Competency Centre, regularly attending and contributing to community calls, provide feedback into development of architecture best practices and tools.  
    • Deliver knowledge transfer presentations and opportunistic coaching for functional and/or technical consultants, including ‘Early Talent’ recruits 
    • Maintains up to date industry, process, Infor product, technical knowledge, and roadmaps 
    • Innovation 
    • Identify potential business use cases for emerging digital technology. Help to define the business case for implementing these solutions and help to develop and run Proof of Concepts (POC) to demonstrate technical feasibility and operational fit.  
    • Feedback to R&D on common requirements driven by industry trends that should be considered as future product enhancements  

      

    What You Will Need 


    • In depth Architectural knowledge of ERP solutions 
    • Implementation experience within the Food and Beverage sector 
    • Experience of several full project life-cycle implementations as Lead Consultant or Solution Architect. 
    • Has applied TOGAF concepts in a project environment. Able to deploy TOGAF Architecture Development Methods (ADM). ** Or equivalent architectural frameworks 
    • Significant customer-facing consulting experience. 
    • Strong stakeholder relationship management skills. 
    • Strong oral and written communication that effectively articulates complex ideas.  
    • Ability to work independently and as a part of a team but also self-motivated. 
    • Team player with the ability to build strong peer and interpersonal relationships.  



    インフォアについて

    インフォアは、業界固有の市場の企業向けのビジネスクラウドソフトウェア製品のグローバルリーダーです。インフォアは、完全な業界スイートをクラウドに構築し、ユーザーエクスペリエンスを第一に考え、データサイエンスを活用し、既存のシステムに簡単に統合できるテクノロジーを効率的に導入します。世界中の60,000を超える組織が、市場の混乱を克服し、ビジネス全体のデジタルトランスフォーメーションを実現するためにインフォアを利用しています。 
    詳細については、www.infor.com をご覧ください。 

    私たちの価値観

    インフォアでは、PBM™ の原則に基づく経営™理念と、誠実さ、スチュワードシップ&コンプライアンス、変革、原則的な起業家精神、知識、謙虚さ、尊敬、自己実現という8つの指針に基づいた環境を目指しています。多様性を高めることは、現在および将来にわたってサービスを提供する市場、顧客、パートナー、コミュニティを反映するために重要です。

    私たちはPBMに基づく文化に執拗に取り組んでいます。PBM™は、自由で開かれた社会の繁栄を可能にする原則に基づいて、個人が革新、改善、変革する準備をしながら、クライアントとサポーターに長期的な価値を創造し、従業員に充実感を生み出す健全で成長する組織を育成します。

    インフォアは機会均等雇用者です。私たちは、多様で包括的な職場環境の構築に取り組んでいます。インフォアは、性別、人種、性自認、障がい、年齢、性的指向、宗教、出身国、退役軍人の地位、または法律の下で保護されているその他の地位を理由に、候補者または従業員を差別しません。

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