Enterprise Solutions Architect - Logistics & Supply Chain Domain - Shipping Firm

Job Description

We are looking for a Solutions Architect to help manage, design, implement and support integration focused solutions for our customers and partners globally. The Solutions Architect will help penetrate our market segment by integrating B2B Business processes with customer's existing procurement (ERP) systems using standard industry protocols like API, EDI, OAG, OCI, XML and cXML.

As a Solutions Architect, you'll work closely with external Partners, Alliances, Professional Services, Sales, Product, Engineering, and cross-functional teams to coordinate new product integrations and launches. Develop and execute operational processes, and manage on-going integration with customers and partners. You will manage programs from discovery through implementation and post-production support whilst reporting success metrics. You will facilitate project scoping; identify and track dependencies with external and internal teams; coordinate and communicate timelines for the development of new integrations and products; and generate and execute project plans.

Core Job Responsibilities :

1. Lead technical projects and technical integration of company platform with customers, platforms, partners and communicate directly with internal and external stakeholders.

2. Leverage company integration platform to automate business processes with customers, platforms and partners. Continuously improve our integration processes, time and data quality.

3. Lead external integration architectural discussions and implementations to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment.

4. Provide technical consultation to companies integrating with the company

5. Maintain company integration specifications and mapping as well as ERP/eProcurement, partner and customer configurations.

6. Drive and build innovative, creative and reusable solutions for challenging external integration requirements.

7. Partner with company teams, customers, platforms and partners worldwide to identify new needs and user interfaces. Work closely with company, a technology team to innovate and simplify complex integration needs.

Basic Qualifications :

- Computer Science degree or equivalent practical experience in technology.

- 6-10 years of relevant experience in hands-on Integrations including map development, API development, XSLT, XSD, REST, SOAP based services.

- Experience writing Business requirement documents, functional and technical design documents, troubleshooting complex integration failures, working with external integration partners, and testing interconnected systems.

- Strong verbal and written communication skills.

- Experience with integrations of B2B marketplaces with procurement and ERP applications utilizing API, EDI, OAG, OCI, XML, cXML.

- Experience with EDI communications standards and protocols.

Preferred Qualifications :

- Experience working in client side roles preferably in Tech consulting

- Excellent communication skills : oral as well as written

- Knowledge of procure to pay integration, Punchout and ordering Integrations

- Experience of working in ERP/ Procurement systems such as Ariba, Coupa, SAP-SRM, Oracle iProcure, Zycus, other ERP ( procurement module) Integrations

- Experience of implementing API Integrations.