Senior Manufacturing Solutions Architect

Infor; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative firm is seeking a Senior Manufacturing Solutions Architect to lead and guide consulting teams in delivering impactful solutions for clients in the manufacturing sector. This role focuses on ensuring successful implementation and customer satisfaction by leveraging industry best practices and architectural knowledge. You'll engage with clients to design tailored solutions, ensuring alignment with their business objectives. Join a dynamic team that values integrity and diversity, and contribute to transforming the manufacturing landscape with cutting-edge technology.

Qualifications

• In-depth knowledge of ERP solutions and industry-specific implementations.
• Experience in leading full project life-cycle implementations.

Responsibilities

• Engage with clients to design end-to-end solutions for their business needs.
• Maintain strong relationships with customers and ensure project success.

Skills

ERP Solutions Architecture

Implementation Experience

TOGAF Concepts

Customer-Facing Consulting

Communication Skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Architecture Development Methods (ADM)

Job description

Senior Manufacturing Solutions Architect

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The Industry Solution Architect (ISA) 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 team's customer base is focused around Manufacturing - Automotive, Aerospace, Industrial manufacturing and Defense.

The ISA 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 Manufacturing industry.

A Day in The Life Typically Includes

Specific responsibilities are determined by the individual ISA’s leadership and will vary because of the sales or delivery focus and skills of each ISA and 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 Industry Accelerators (IA’s) are positioned and determine the degree of fit to the client’s to-be business processes (60/30/10) through IA Mapping Workshops.
• Challenge the customer where appropriate to encourage adoption of standard IA 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 Programme 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 possible solutions to the customers’ business issues.
• Provide solution quality assurance checks at designated milestones in the project.
• Validate that solution designs are meeting customer project objectives during all project phases. This includes the business value case objectives as well as technical objectives.
• Provide leadership to the Project Team to ensure adoption of the prescribed solution through active participation in Scope Confirmation, and Implementation Accelerator Process 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 ensuring that they regularly attend and contribute 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
• 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 POCs 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 key verticals such as Automotive, Aerospace & Defence, Discrete Manufacturing
• 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 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.

About Infor

Infor is a global leader in business cloud software products for companies in industry specific markets. Infor builds complete industry suites in the cloud and efficiently deploys technology that puts the user experience first, leverages data science, and integrates easily into existing systems. Over 60,000 organizations worldwide rely on Infor to help overcome market disruptions and achieve business-wide digital transformation.

For more information visit www.infor.com

Our Values

At Infor, we strive for an environment that is founded on a business philosophy called Principle Based Management (PBM) and eight Guiding Principles: integrity, stewardship & compliance, transformation, principled entrepreneurship, knowledge, humility, respect, self-actualization. Increasing diversity is important to reflect our markets, customers, partners, and communities we serve in now and in the future.

We have a relentless commitment to a culture based on PBM. Informed by the principles that allow a free and open society to flourish, PBM prepares individuals to innovate, improve, and transform while fostering a healthy, growing organization that creates long-term value for its clients and supporters and fulfillment for its employees.

Infor is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive work environment. Infor does not discriminate against candidates or employees because of their sex, race, gender identity, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion, national origin, veteran status, or any other protected status under the law. If you require accommodation or assistance at any time during the application or selection processes, please submit a request by following the directions located in the FAQ section at the bottom of the infor.com/about/careers webpage.

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Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Consulting, Information Technology, and Manufacturing

• Industries

  Software Development, Motor Vehicle Manufacturing, and Industrial Machinery Manufacturing

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