SAP Solution Architect
INEOS Automotive – Grenadier – Built On Purpose
Story so far
Since Sir Jim Ratcliffe announced Project Grenadier in 2017, our team at INEOS Automotive has grown rapidly. From a start-up to the scaled business we are now, we’ve hit some huge milestones along the way. Despite some global challenges, we brought our first vehicle, the INEOS Grenadier, from a vision to prototype and to market in just five years. And now, as the first customer deliveries of our INEOS Grenadier have begun, we look to the future with our first all-electric vehicle.
People and Culture
With around 1500 employees, 10 locations and 44 nationalities, we’re an international team working together to challenge the ordinary. We welcome people who mirror our values: Spirit of ownership, who take responsibility and make things happen. Delivering quality work, with ambition to deliver outstanding results and who have a community mindset, believing together everyone achieves more. Creativity and initiative are encouraged to support your career development.
We’re doing things differently.
If this sounds like you, let’s talk.
The role:
The SAP Solution Architect, will support departments across all locations; UK, France, Germany. The SAP Solution Architect, will report to the Head of Enterprise Architecture and IT Integration, and will work closely with the existing Enterprise Architecture and Integration Competency Centre (ICC) Teams to guide and shape technical solutions, that assist in achieving business outcomes and objectives.
Responsibilities include (but are not limited to):
- Ownership and responsibility for Solution Architecture across the INEOS SAP Estate. With a primary focus on SAP Solutions, for our Sales and Aftersales business functions. (e.g. warranty, campaigns, roadside assistance etc.) and also supporting manufacturing systems, solution architecture.
- Assist in identifying the best solution among all available choices to solve the existing business problems by carefully reviewing and analysing the business, functional, and technical requirements.
- Design, implement and direct a solution architecture to address specific problems and requirements, usually through the application of technical, business process and/or industry knowledge.
- Manage relationships with key stakeholders for solution planning.
- Serve as liaison to other Implementation workstreams on process and technical integration issues. Work with solution leads and functional leads to refine end to end business process scenarios to confirm the integration between process areas
- Provide solution recommendations and help drive resolution of major process and technical build issues within and across process teams, specifically where there is a significant degree of integration.
- Estimate and provide ROM or detailed estimations for various potential solutions, working with Financial Management team to formally cost these solutions.
- Provide delivery support to inflight projects and assist in resolving open risks and issues – by leveraging past experience to help guide the team.
- Prepare summary level presentations and facilitate future state system design and process workshops to obtain client acceptance.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a relevant Technology related discipline
- Strong knowledge and experience, working with current and core SAP Products and Solutions;
- S4, C4C, Emarsys, CPI, VMS, LBN, NetWeaver, BTP
- Strong knowledge and experience, working with TOGAF standards, principles, guidelines etc
- A proven track record, working as a Senior Solution Architect and a concise understanding of current architectural best practices
- Preferably, experience working within an Automotive OEM as a Solution Architect or Senior Solution Architect
- Experience in SAP and non-SAP Enterprise Integration Technologies and tools e.g. Microsoft Azure Integration Technologies, IBM MQ etc
- Experience in time and project management using Agile or Waterfall principals.
- Experience in training, presenting, and communicating technical topics to a non-technical audience at all levels.
- Experience using Enterprise Architecture tools such as Archimate, iServer365, Alfabet etc.
- Pragmatism to provide applications and solutions consulting, by understanding, analysing and translating business and technical requirements to enhance, support and facilitate the design of business enabling solutions, by being
- A Professional, effective, and highly competent Solution Architect
- Highly competent at managing and influencing stakeholders.
- Able to effectively communicate, to and with all levels, of the internal organisation and with 3rd parties
- A Big Picture thinker and someone who can also think outside the box
- Assertive and enforcing IT and Architectural; standards, policies and principles
- Capable of balancing competing demands and priorities