Logistics Execution-Solution Architect

Position Title : Solution Architect, Logistics Execution

Position Location : Gurgaon

Requisition ID : 33002

JOB PURPOSE :

We are looking for a business savvy technical leader, someone who can perform activities of developing a direction for managing the portfolio of to-be solutions — including systems (meaning not just applications, but also processes and information), shared infrastructure services, and shared application services and components — to better match business outcome objectives.

The Solution Architect supports process transformation and product development by bridging the specific business problems (and issues) to the technologies that support them. In this role you will be a solution thought leader in the Supply Chain Portfolio in architecting and implementing sophisticated solutions aimed at expanding McCain’s Supply Chain transportation and logistics execution capabilities.

If you possess a profound acumen for complex problem-solving, coupled with a comprehensive understanding of supply chain processes and solutions, we invite you to contribute your expertise to our team at McCain.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES :

• Understand business drivers and business capabilities (future and current state), and determine corresponding enterprise system designs in SAP and change requirements to drive the organization's targeted business outcomes.
• Own and maintain the overall integrated solution architecture for supply chain execution systems for transportation and logistics.
• Manage and develop the architecture for a broader scope of projects, working closely with application architects that manage and design architecture for a single project or initiative.
• Take a leadership position in the technology roadmap and establish a vision by :
• Remaining at the forefront of technological advancements within the supply chain management domain, providing proactive recommendations for innovative solutions.
• Exhibiting technical leadership by guiding the selection and assimilation of technologies that augment the efficiency and efficacy of our supply chain processes.
• Maintain systems encompassing Enterprise Architecture, Solution documentation, Business Process Management, process materials (e.g. SOPs) and other related documentation repositories in line with our aim to have best-in-class documentation.
• Collaborate with the Product Owner, Functional Engineers, Solution Architects and Global & Regional Supply Chain business to develop solutions.
• Provide support to portfolio architects within projects to ensure the project is aligned with the overall enterprise architecture.
• Monitor the current-state solution portfolio to identify deficiencies through aging of the technologies used by the application, or misalignment with business requirements.
• Understand technology trends and the practical application of existing, new, and emerging technologies to enable new and evolving business and operating models.
• Analyze the business-IT environment (run, grow and transform the business) to detect critical deficiencies, and recommend solutions for improvement (systems of record, differentiation and innovation).
• Develop a roadmap for the evolution of the enterprise application portfolio from future to current state (as defined by the solutions architecture).
• Consult with application and infrastructure development projects to fit systems or infrastructure to architecture, and identify when it is necessary to modify projects to accommodate the solutions architecture.

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