Solution Architect

Job Description

Primary Function of Position
As IT Solution Architect - Manufacturing, you will be accountable for driving the design, development, and integration of production execution solution and associated applications. Solution architect will be responsible for collaborating with cross functional and CoE teams to define standard best practice application solution.

Essential Job Duties

• Provide leadership in functional design, implementation, and sustain the SAP Production Planning, SAP ME and Mfg applications.
• Perform deep data to translate complex business information to actionable system activities; recommend best practices; and present associated technical process components.
• Operate as a credible IT thought principal for manufacturing execution business functions.
• Work with key business stakeholders to evaluate requirements and assess impact of use cases, to ensure the solution will produce desired business outcomes.
• Investigate, research and evaluate new applications and/or technologies and application integrations that will improve business productivity.
• Identify gaps between current and future state of business processes and helps in prioritizing opportunities to improving processes through the use of inbuilt features in Mfg application.
• Identify and participate in prioritization of business capabilities and act as a springboard for building mature and scalable processes.
• Ensure that solutions designed by analysts are scalable and in sync with business needs.
• Coaches other team members with design and thought leadership to achieve organizational goals.
• Interact on a day-to-day basis with other analysts, business leadership, SME and IT team members to help business operations and drive change management.
• Facilitate change management and transition to future state working with various stakeholders.

Qualifications

Required Skills and Experience

• Experience implementing MES in a medical device or high-tech manufacturing industry is required.
• Minimum 7+ years of Implementing SAP ME and other related MES solutions is required.
• Must have in depth experience in SAP – PP, MES (SAP ME), SAP master data and touchpoints with other SAP modules in SAP S4 is required.
• Must have in depth knowledge of business processes in the areas of production planning, manufacturing execution, manufacturing operations, production management, labor or workforce management, machine integrations, production process controls etc,
• Experience with end to end manufacturing operations processes (e.g., Procurement, Manufacturing , quality control, Inventory Management) is desired.
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in engineering, information systems or related field, or equivalent work experience is required
• Experience in medical device manufacturing or lifesciences industry is preferred.
• Excellent communication skills to present complex ideas and concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Exceptional social skills; demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with a wide range of team members at all levels of the organization.
• This role requires working onsite in our Sunnyvale, CA office on Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday every week.

Required Education and Training

• Minimum Bachelor’s degree in engineering or equivalent experience

Preferred Experience

• Project management
• SAP certification
• CPIM or CSCP certification

Note:

• The final job level (Professional 4 or Professional 5) will be determined based on the candidate's experience, skills, and interview performance.