07 Aug
Solutions Architect
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Talent Space is looking for a Solutions Architect with the following skills and experiences:We are looking for a hands-on leader who is passionate about technology and its uses to solve complex business needs. You will have deep experience in the Planning (MFP, Demand, Supply), Allocation & Inventory Management space, ideally with at least some experience in the apparel industry. We are looking for a strategic thinker who can help guide the broader team to develop and implement our technology strategy in this space.Key Responsibilities:
- Develop project level solution architecture and system concepts
- Participate in and facilitate architecture design reviews
- Collaborate with business partners and other stakeholders to establish and prioritize business requirements
- Understand the functional intent of business requirements
- Translate functional requirements into a technical solution that supports the e2e business process.
- Lead efforts to scope and estimate technical deliverables
- Manage the Key Design Decision Process and Design Escalations
- Collaborate closely with domain architects and other solution architects to ensure that the solution architecture aligns with technology and business capability roadmaps
- Develop technical designs in partnership with the development team(s) that align with technology standards and architecture principles.
- Perform software inspections and design reviews.
- Ensure that technical and other non-functional requirements are designed into the end-to-end solution.
- Mentor resources working on technical solution and act as the point person for cross-project technical issues/resolution
- Ensure development is in line with the solution design
- Oversee operational readiness and implementation strategy
- Document technical debt and Identify opportunity to alleviate it
- 10+ years working in Technology, preferably with experience implementing planning, allocation and inventory management solutions.
- 5+ years' Supply Chain architecture experience at vertically integrated retail businesses; ideally working in an apparel and wholesale environment
- A solid understanding of essential Supply Chain trends in this space
- A strong technical background and passionate about technology and technology trends.
- Solid understanding of e2e business processes in the areas of Demand & Supply Planning, Allocation & Replenishment, Inventory Management and other core supply chain functions.
- Experience implementing planning and inventory management packaged solutions that include SAS, o9, Nextail and other best of breed package applications.
- An understating of different integration methodologies including ETL, EDI, asynchronous messaging and service-based integration patterns.
- Experience developing service based, message based and batch integration architectures using tools such as SAP PO, BODS, MQ, MuleSoft, Kafka would be helpful.
- Ability to work with Data Engineers and AI/Client Scientists and demonstrate capability to create advanced features that can be integrated with operational systems to extend traditional capabilities.
- Some cloud platform experience (Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure) is helpful.
- Experience managing internal and external development teams at onsite and offshore locations.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills as well as the ability to decompose complex problems and perform root cause analyses.
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