Solution Architect with LN/Baan experience

About Infor
Infor delivers end-to-end ERP and strategic edge applications that are integrated and delivered in a multi-tenant cloud. We believe that customers need industry-specific solutions and that one size does not fit all.
We are proud to serve more than 68,000 companies worldwide. Infor is a standalone subsidiary of Koch Industries, Inc., which has annual revenues of over $110 billion.
Position Summary
The Solution Architect is responsible for proposing specific Infor solutions that fit within the customer’s business environment and business objectives and can be shown to address the customer’s business problems and exploit opportunities. The Solution Architect is able to understand customer business drivers and current IT environment. The Solution Architect ensures solution feasibility and proposes a roadmap to realise the solution.
The Solution Architect is deployed operationally across multiple solution domains utilizing their broad knowledge of the Infor solution portfolio to identify the components required to construct the most appropriate solution for the customer. The Solution Architect is typically engaged full time as part of the project delivery structure and has experience in one or more industry segments such as Distribution, Industrial Manufacturing, High Tech, Automotive or Enterprise Asset Management.
A Day in The Life Typically Includes:
General:
• Acts as an expert and evangelist in Infor Applications and Technology
• Maintains up to date product and technical knowledge of the Infor portfolio and roadmap for an industry and/or horizontal solution set
• Knowledge of one or more Industry sectors and is able to present solutions in an Industry context.
• Ability to decompose large complex problems into manageable pieces allowing communication on both business and technical levels.
• Skilled at presenting to C-level audiences focusing on demonstrating the business value of solutions rather than technical detail.
• Knowledge and experience in the application of Infor architecture engagement processes and tools.
• Knowledge of the important standards for business processes, information models and architectural models generally applied in an industry.
• Maintains awareness of IT Industry architecture frameworks and approaches.
• Maintains up to date knowledge of business drivers & typical customer needs within an industry.
Sales:
• Designs, develops, documents and delivers solution architectures that meet client needs.
• Leads architectural discussions with clients around proposed solutions.
• Determines solution approach, identifies the critical path and defines an appropriate solution roadmap.
• Builds and maintains effective relationships with customer throughout the sales lifecycle.
• Ensures solution is practical and provides continuity in the implementation project.
Delivery:
• Acts as the primary point of ownership with responsibility for functional solution.
• Experience in delivery of complex cross-pillar solutions utilizing Infor products.
• Challenges requirements to take advantage from the value-added provided by Infor solutions.
• Manages changes to the solution architecture due to change requests.
• Ensures that the different solution pieces built by different teams are consistent.
• Actively ensures that design/development standards are upheld.
What You Will Need:
· Implementation experience across all business process areas of Warehousing, Logistics, Procurement; or Manufacturing and Planning; or Customer Sales, Management; or Service and Rental.
· Experience of several full project life-cycle Infor LN or Baan implementations as Lead Consultant or Solution Architect.
· Significant customer-facing consulting experience
· Reliability and deadline-driven approach
· Strong organizational skills & time management skills
· Strong oral and written communication that effectively articulates complex ideas.
· Ability to work independently and as a part of a team but also self-motivated
· Team player with the ability to build strong peer and interpersonal relationships.
· Excellent problem solving and analytic skills.
· Fluency in English
· Willingness to travel nationally and throughout Europe
What Will Put You Ahead?
Preferred Qualifications:
· Conceptual knowledge of OAGi standards, workflow & integration methods & techniques
Infor values:
Our Guiding Principles set the standard for how we work with one another. They define who we are as an organization and guide everything we do. By applying the same shared values that unleash prosperity in free societies—such as value creation, integrity, responsibility, free speech, and toleration—we encourage one another to take initiative and to challenge the status quo.We have a relentless commitment to a culture based on a business philosophy called Market Based Management® (MBM®). Informed by the principles that allow a free and open society to flourish, MBM® prepares individuals to innovate, improve, and transform while fostering a healthy, growing organization that creates long-term value for its clients and supporters and fulfillment for its employees.