Solutions Architect

Ibaset; United States; On-site; USD 100,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading solutions provider is seeking a Solutions Architect to oversee overall solution design and provide guidance to deployment teams. The role involves collaborating with stakeholders, leading design workshops, and ensuring customer requirements are met. Candidates should have a strong background in manufacturing processes, advanced software deployment, and cloud computing solutions, with at least 8 years of relevant experience. The position may require up to 50% travel.

Qualifications

• 8+ years continuous experience in advanced software deployment in the manufacturing industry.
• The ability to do domain modeling of business objects as both Java objects and XML Schema is a plus.
• Experience with manufacturing processes, MRO, application integration, and system implementation methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Provide oversight and guidance to the deployment team.
• Guide and mentor the project team through requirements specification, design, and deployment.
• Lead design workshops to help customers achieve desired outcomes.

Skills

Excellent written and verbal communication

Excellent analysis and process decomposition skills

Experience in engaging and negotiating with C-level stakeholders

Familiar with cloud computing solutions

Expertise in JEE development using EJB, JAVA, JMS and Hibernate

Education

BS degree - Computer Science, Information Technology, or Software Engineering

Tools

SQL database tools

Solumina Application

Job description

Job Summary:

The Solutions Architect is responsible for the overall solution design and will provide day-to-day oversight, direction and guidance to the deployment team, and coordinate with other stakeholders such as Product Management and Sales / Pre-Sales to successfully deliver solutions.

Essential Functions:

• Participate in customer business requirements sessions and provide expert level requirements elicitation and analysis to develop solution specifications.

• Provide creative solutions to complex business problems by challenging current ideas and championing industry best practices.

• Guide and mentor the project team through requirements specification, design, development, training and deployment to ensure customer requirements are met.

• Lead design workshops to help customers achieve desired outcomes from their investment.

• Facilitate business process design and development that leverages Solumina capabilities.

• Resolve design challenges to ensure that the solution produces the expected results.

• Work with our customers to develop a maturity roadmap leveraging the power of Solumina

• Work with Account Executives and Client Partners to articulate customer ROI, the value of Solumina and our Services solution implementation methodology.

• Develop technical documentation and prepare product demo/presentation materials to validate requirements and ensure user acceptance.

• Ensure standards and best practices for project management, business/system analysis and development are followed.

• Ensure project team follows current methodology with the ability to coach at the point of deviation

• Support the validation and testing of the solution.

• Support data management and data integration related activities

• Support and guide project teams on the use of AI

Requirements:

• Excellent written and verbal communication

• Excellent analysis and process decomposition skills to solve a variety of problems with complex scope.

• Experience in engaging and negotiating with C-level stakeholders.

• Experience in manufacturing processes, MRO, information systems, application integration, process re-engineering and system implementation methodologies

• Familiar with cloud computing solutions, architecture, and security protocol

• The ability to do domain modeling of business objects as both Java objects and XML Schema is a plus.

• Familiar with MOM using technologies such as JMS, ESB, and Web Services is a plus.

• Expertise in JEE development using EJB, JAVA, JMS and Hibernate with knowledge in three tier architect using enterprise application servers such as Apache Tomcat, WebSphere, Tibco, Weblogic or Netweaver/PI is a plus.

• Technical expertise working with ERP, SQL database tools and familiarity with database programming (PLSQL and T-SQL) is a plus.

• Experience with Solumina Application is strongly preferred.

• Ability to travel up to 50%

Required Education/Experience:

• Minimum BS degree - Computer Science, Information Technology, or Software Engineering preferred.

• 8+ years continuous experience in advanced software deployment in the manufacturing industry, specifically in the areas of Process Planning (PP), Manufacturing Execution (MES), Quality Assurance (QA), Supplier Quality (SQA) and Maintenance and Overhaul (MRO)