CeDent is Hiring a Principal Solution Architect - Planning (Portland, OR) Near Portland, OR
Title: Principal Solution Architect - Planning @ Portland, ORTerms of Hire: Full Time.Job description
The Enterprise Architecture team partners and engages with business and technology leaders across all business functions within the enterprise in planning, crafting, maintaining and executing a capability roadmap aligned to the overall company and functional strategies to ensure that the people, process, data insights/information, and technology needs are accurately captured and planned for short, medium and long-term execution.
As a Principal Solution Architect for Planning, you will collaborate with a team of Solution Architects embedded in Client’s Merchandising and Planning and Capabilities bringing your passion for Planning, Supply Chain, and Technology. The technical strategy and architecture we build will have a direct impact on Client’s Digital Transformation strategy!
We will engage, collaborate and partner with Client’s End-to-End Planning and Supply Chain leaders and partners across Business and Technology to understand long and short-term business strategies, provide thought leadership, and engage in proactive planning of an executable Design.
PRINCIPAL SOLUTION ARCHITECT – PLANNING RESPONSIBILITIES:
Collaborate with a team of Planning and Supply Chain Solution Architects to build an End-to-End Planning strategy and Architecture in partnership with Line Planning and Merchandising, Demand Planning, Supply, Material & Inventory Planning business and technical specialists
Drive Planning architectural strategy with hands-on leadership in ideation and implementation
Deliver solution designs, recommendations, and options based on business capability roadmaps and requirements following API first model, enterprise security standards and reference architectures
Lead solution optioning and recommendations around sophisticated business problems
Ensure architecture alignment across domains and enabling functions (verticals and horizontals)
Lead, build, manage, and improve solution architectures to drive enablement of the longer-term roadmap
Provide technology mentorship and insight to business & technology Domain leaders
Provide experienced technical advice to domain delivery teams
Drive and facilitate the right discussions that determine solutions in relation to current and future technology landscape
Maintain awareness of vendor products and industry developments and trends to identify potential impacts and benefits to the Domain
Present recommendations and solutions clearly and concisely focusing on key points to portray the intended message or purpose based on audience
Facilitate development and implementation of architecture principles and technology standards within the assigned Domain and across the Enterprise; ensuring architecture alignment across domains
Drive alignment with corporate strategies through strong business and technical thought leadership
Qualifications: WHAT YOU BRING
Must have strong experience with Planning/Supply Chain solutions (experience in one or more areas: Demand Planning, Supply/Material Planning, Inventory Forecasting & Management)
Experience driving a decoupled, composable platform architecture to enable planning capabilities at scale
Experience incorporating analytics-driven forecasts into Planning solutions
Familiarity with Supply Chain functions (Operations and Logistics, Order Management, Procurement)
8 years combined hands-on architecture and/or senior engineering experience with public cloud, distributed computing, commercial off-the-shelf (COTS), and custom developed solutions
3 years of experience developing strategy, E2E Solution architecture and crafting technology roadmaps
Large enterprise experience including global experience with solution delivery Domain Driven Design (DDD) and agile development experience preferred
Experience with Microservice architecture, Cloud Computing, DevOps, Java, Javascript, REST API, noSQL DB
Design and implementation experience with cloud platform providers such as Azure, AWS and/or other cloud providers
Ability to articulate and detail architectural decisions and roadmaps at a senior executive level
Demonstrated track record of leading within complex organizations requiring strong influence leadership skills - ability to work collaboratively at all levels in a matrixed environment
Outstanding teamwork, listening, written and verbal communication skills with ability to facilitate technology strategy, requirements and architecture conversations with all partners (management, business users, and technology resources)
Self-starter with high motivation and passion to thrive & adapt in a constantly evolving, fast-paced environment
You Will Enjoy:
An opportunity to be a part of a great culture, an awesome team, a challenging work environment, and some fun along the way!
Apply today to learn more and be part of our Growth story.
All applications will be kept strictly confidential and once shortlisted, our team will be in touch with you for further discussions.