Solutions Architect

Job Title: ERP Solutions Architect

Location: Duluth, Minnesota - hybrid onsite work schedule

Job Overview:

• The Solutions Architect - ERP provides the necessary leadership, analysis and design tasks related to support the development of technology solutions to ensure that solutions meet business needs and align with architectural governance and standards. This role requires the ability to work with evolving requirements, competing business demands, and within the context of an established aircraft manufacturing and service organization. This position will be part of the Information Technology team.

Job Duties and Responsibilities (Essential Functions):

The Solutions Architect - ERP will oversee activities that optimize the value, cost and risk of applications:

• Understand business drivers and business capabilities (future and current state) and determine corresponding enterprise solution designs and change requirements to drive the organization's targeted business outcomes
• Lead evaluation, design and analysis for the implementation of a solutions architecture across a group of specific business applications or technologies based on enterprise business strategy, business capabilities, value-streams, business requirements and enterprise standards
• Understand emerging technology trends and disruptions and their practical application to enable new and evolving business and operating models
• Monitor the current-state solution portfolio to identify deficiencies through aging of the technologies used by the application, or misalignment with business requirements
• Generate technical requirements and communicate a matching solution architecture across different audiences including technical, managerial, executives and/or vendors
• Collaborate with other architects on the principles, guidelines, standards and solution patterns that ensure solution decisions are aligned with the enterprise's future-state architecture vision
• Ensure that applications processes (including those of external service providers) are conducted in line with corporate architecture standards, company and technical policies and applicable standards and legislation

Qualifications:

• To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and/or Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related combination of education and technical experience.
• 10 years in at least two IT solution development disciplines, including technical or infrastructure architecture, network management, application development, middleware, database management or cloud development
• Manufacturing experience preferred
• ERP implementation experience preferred
• Good understanding of strategic and emerging technology trends, and the practical application of existing and emerging technologies to new and evolving business and operating models
• Good understanding of product management, agile principles and development methodologies and capability of supporting agile teams by providing advice and guidance on opportunities, impact and risks, taking account of technical and architectural debt
• Experience developing architecture blueprints, strategies and roadmaps

Demonstrated Proficiencies/Skills/Abilities:

• Exceptional business acumen, leadership and communication skills, enabling them to operate credibly with senior-most operating leaders, as well as business resources.
• Ability to craft recommendations (based on thorough understanding of data, and its sources) that allow leadership to make data-driven decisions.
• Executive presence; ability to translate technology into business terms and to influence outcomes with key stakeholders.
• Strong familiarity with process management techniques, with the ability to establish and define processes, interrelationships, key controls and to continuously monitor and improve processes to facilitate the efficient and effective execution of business activities.
• Use of System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies in delivery of IT solutions.

Competencies:

To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following competencies:

• Manages Complexity
• Optimizes Work Processes
• Collaborates
• Balances Stakeholders
• Strategic Mindset