Senior Solution Architect

Job Description:Pay Range: $86hr - $91hrResponsibilities:• Solution Design and Road mapping: Works in partnership with a project manager to orchestrate the architecture design and is accountable for the overall technical quality of solutions.• Follows the IT Methodology, producing, contributing to, and providing signoffs on deliverables as defined.• Future State Planning and Road mapping: Works with Business Architects and Technology Architects to contribute to planning and road mapping activities.• Standards and Governance: Participates in the governance processes as defined by the client architecture practice.• Capabilities Assessment and Technology Oversight: Partners with the Technical Architects in the health evaluation of the technology within the architect’s focus area and assists in the development of improvement plans for their area of focus.• Architecture Practice: Follows the client Architecture Practice.• Leads communities within the practice.• Mentors other architects.Required Industry Experience:• 10 years in IT.• 7 years of solution architecture and project implementation experience, including heavy use of SAP WM, EAM, PM, MM and/or PP modules.• Expert in the solution architecture discipline, processes, concepts and best practices.Required Technical Experience:• Process design, information modeling and / or system solution architecture development with project or portfolio focus in at least one of the following: SAP WM/EAM Application Architecture, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Information Architecture, Data Management, Security, or Infrastructure.• Extensive experience designing and architecting complex SAP solutions with one or more of the following SAP modules: Supply Chain Management (SCM), Project Systems (PS), Project Portfolio Management (PPM).• Environmental Health and Safety(EH&S), Work Management(WM),Material Management(MM), Asset Management (EAM), or Plant Maintenance (PM).• Experience with Production Planning (PP) and Sales and Distribution (SD) would also be helpful.• Supply Chain Management (SCM), Project Systems (PS), Project Portfolio Management (PPM), Environmental Health and Safety(EH&S), Management(MM).• Operational support for applications, systems, or infrastructure.• Experience with enterprise architecture tools.• Experience providing direction to design and engineering staff.• Experience providing direction to one or more architects.Required Functional Experience:• Ability to engage and collaborate with IT and business leadership. Demonstrates thought leadership in area of expertise.• Clear and concise communications skills.• Influence outcomes through expertise and analysis.• Excellent stakeholder interaction; collaborative, able to work cross-functionally; possessing the ability to forge relationships and partner effectively.• Customer focus; Able to engage and influence partners to develop the best solutions.• Own the outcome; Able to manage expectations; strive for overall IT success; take the initiative; administrative excellence.• Great insights and judgment skills; courage to share unpopular viewpoints; comfort with ambiguity Ability to apply multi-disciplinary approach to develop best-of-breed portfolio solutions.Desired Education and Certifications:• BA/BS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business or related field.• Architecture Certification (TOGAF, Zachman, DODAF, etc).• Security Certification (CISSP, etc) (depending upon specific role).• IT Delivery Certification (ITILv3, etc) (depending upon specific role).Additional Desired Experience:• Experience with SAP SaaS applications, e.g. Ariba, HANA, SuccessFactors, Material Management, Supply Chain.