Solution Architect

A large international company is looking for Solution Architect to join its team. 

Job Duties and Responsibilities:  

-Development of CRM systems for global company solutions in the Sales and Marketing division; 

-Establish strong working relationship with other IT Teams and ensure regular communication related to the existing and new technologies in CRM and Digital Sales area; 

-Build strong relationships with relevant vendors and influence their product developments to ensure proper support for company’s needs; 

-Ensure that CRM and Digital Sales solution architecture is aligned with the principles and directions established by the enterprise architecture; 

-Provide solution architecture services for CRM and Digital Sales projects:

-Provide a balanced architecture evaluation considering Project delivery constraints and sustainability of the solutions; -

Analyze and sign-off the use of non-standard technologies in the projects; 

-Provide guidelines and advisory to project teams on solution architecture; 

-Define and maintain architecture standards for CRM and Digital Sales platforms: 

-Establish and maintain consistent Architecture standards for CRM and Digital Sales solutions, which should consider solution platform, integration, UX and BI requirements, security and data management; 

-Promote, communicate the architecture standards to IT and user community on a regular basis; -Propose potential optimizations to simplify the solution architecture;

-Innovation leadership: 

-Stay up-to-date with the technology and industry trends; 

-Leverage Proof of Concepts to evaluate new technologies; 

-Proactively anticipate issues and propose mitigation plan before starting a real implementation; 

-Work closely with BTS leads to gather the business demand for new solutions and technologies; 

-Manage introduction of new technologies and transition of new selected technologies/solutions to the project or application delivery teams; 

-Enterprise Architecture Support: 

-Support the definition, implementation and promote the Enterprise Architecture frameworks (for example, solution architecture modeling using ArchiMate language). 

Requirements:  

-Strong knowledge of computer science, software and systems engineering; 

-You have a University Degree IT or equivalent; 

-10+ years of overall experience in the IT discipline in multi-national environment; 

-8+ years experience in managing and architecting CRM or Digital Sales system implementations (preferably, SAP, Oracle or Microsoft); 

-8+ years experience in project management and IT / Business process management; 

-Excellent knowledge of CRM & Digital Sales ecosystem, strong expertise in underlying technologies like cloud, BI, mobility, integration, big data, security; 

-Experience in Solution Architecture tasks and methods, good understanding of enterprise and solution architecture concepts and standards is a must. Archimate knowledge is a plus;

-Fluent English is a must; 

-Excellent planning skills, time management and ability to architecturally support concurrent CRM and Digital Sales Systems projects; 

-Excellent inter-personal communication, negotiation and presentation skills; 

-Excellent analytical skills, strong thought leadership, structured and results-driven way of working, and ability to get things done; 

-Highly motivated, hardworking individual with desire to continually learn new skills and improve; 

-Demonstrated interest in discovering and introducing new technologies applicable to relevant domains.