PRINCIPAL ARCHITECT, SYSTEMS--SUPPLY CHAIN BUSINESS SOLUTIONS

PRINCIPAL ARCHITECT, SYSTEMS--SUPPLY CHAIN BUSINESS SOLUTIONS 

Bellevue, WA

EXP 7-10 yrs

DEG Bach

RELO

BONUS

VISA candidates welcome

Job Description

DESCRIPTION

The Principal IT Solution Architect plays a key role in shaping our technology strategy by applying expertise in strategic analysis, business architecture, and technology architecture. This role will seek to understand how people, processes, and technology interact to perform fundamental business activities in both current and future states, and model these interactions to guide technology strategy in order to achieve the strategic goals and objectives of the Supply Chain business. This role is part of the Supply Chain Business Solutions team within the Enterprise Systems organization and provides leadership and guidance to business partners, functional analysts, development teams, QA, application support and the enterprise architecture team.

This role is highly visible and requires regular interaction with business and IT leadership. Candidates need to have extensive experience as an enterprise level solution architect with interest and background in both the strategic and the hands-on aspects this role. Expert level understanding of the existing T-Mobile systems landscape, state of the art supply chain software solutions, tools, technologies, data architecture, integration, web services, SOA, cloud and SaaS options are required to be successful. Candidates should also be familiar with ERP solutions, ideally SAP, and high transaction volume enterprise applications. Excellent leadership, communication, collaboration and consensus building are critical skills to be successful in this role.       

The Principal IT Solution Architect will be responsible for end-to-end solution roadmaps in alignment between business and technology, solution architecture and overall design in Supply Chain related projects to ensure that business requirements will be satisfied by the most efficient and effective solutions and in alignment with our vision and strategy. 

The Enterprise Systems team supports a wide variety of core internal and customer-facing functions, including HR, Finance and Supply Chain. The Principal Solution Owner will have responsibility for projects focused on Supply Chain solutions and processes, including Order-To-Cash, Procure-To-Pay, Inventory and Device Lifecycle Management, Forecasting and Planning.     

Qualifications JOB REQUIREMENTS:  

Minimum Required:

Minimum 8-10 years related work experience

Experience working with enterprise applications and ERP systems, SAP solutions preferred, including SAP ECC, CRM, SCM, etc.

Demonstrated ability to think strategically as well as deliver hands on and in detail, which requires breadth and depth of expertise in supply chain business operations and related disciplines.

Understanding of wireless telecom architecture, including devices, core, customer systems, enterprise systems, enterprise architecture framework and related domain expertise.

Ability to connect business strategy with solution and technology strategy and roadmaps.

Exceptional verbal and written communication skills with business and technical audiences on all levels.

Experience explaining difficult concepts to decision makers to help shape technology strategy.

Excellent organizational and time-management skills.

Proficient with MS Office Programs and aptitude for learning new software quickly

Proven record of demonstrating proper judgment in managing difficult situations.

Desired:

Experience working preferably as a business management or strategy consultant

Relevant industry experience, such as wireless, telecom, retail, high tech, utilities

EDUCATION

Required:

Bachelors Degree in Business or IT

Desired:

Masters Degree in Business or IT preferred

JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:  

Cross-functional and cross-organizational architect role working on supply chain solutions including order-to-cash, procure-to-pay, inventory management, planning, forecasting, replenishment, 3rd party logistics provider integration, device lifecycle management, retail and web front-end systems integration.

Develop, manage and evangelize end-to-end solution and technology roadmaps guiding the evolution of infrastructure, solutions and services by applying depth and breadth of expertise in multiple related disciplines.

Establish, maintain and ensure compliance with architectural guardrails in collaboration with other enterprise, solution and technology architects.

Provide guidance and direction to project teams to ensure compliance with standards and best practices.

Understand, leverage and improve end-to-end supply chain business processes supported by various software solutions including SAP ERP, CRM, SCM, IS Retail, JDA and others.

Drive solution innovation leveraging existing solution portfolio, cloud services and SaaS models, Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services integration using SAP-PI and Tibco tools.

Evaluate and recommend solutions and technologies for applicability to T-Mobile business and systems environment. 

Interact with company senior and executive management to provide solutions for enterprise business requirements. 

Guide architectural focus groups by serving as a prime SME in the integration of SAP and non-SAP solutions encompassing Supply Chain processes.

Mentor and guide team members on supply chain process improvement opportunities and related new solutions and technologies. 

Prepare and maintain documents, including architecture diagrams, data models, and navigation maps. 

Analyze and prepare recommendations to address existing and potential trouble areas in systems and procedures across the organization