Senior Solution Architect - Supply Planning in Herzogenaurach

About the Role

The Senior Solution Architect – Supply Planning designs and communicates high-level structures that enable and guide the design and development of integrated solutions meeting current and future business needs. The role encompasses changes to service, process, organisation and operating models alongside technology components, and provides comprehensive guidance on the development and modification of solution components. It ensures that solution components take account of relevant architectures, strategies, policies, standards and practices, including security, and that existing and planned components remain compatible. The position sits within the Technology team and works closely with Global IT and business functions such as GOPS, Finance, HR, Brand Marketing and Wholesale/Retail.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain recognised expert-level knowledge in one or more specialisms, provide definitive expert advice, consolidate expertise from multiple sources including third-party experts, and support and promote the sharing of specialist knowledge across the organisation.




• Build on and refine outline research ideas within given research goals, apply standard methods to collect and analyse quantitative and qualitative data, and create research reports communicating methodology, findings and conclusions.




• Monitor the external environment and assess emerging technologies to evaluate potential impacts, threats and opportunities, contributing to reports, technology road mapping and the sharing of knowledge and insights.




• Contribute to the development of solution architectures in specific business, infrastructure or functional areas, identifying and evaluating alternative architectures and the trade-offs in cost, performance and scalability.




• Produce specifications of cloud-based or on-premises components, tiers and interfaces for translation into detailed designs, and support change programmes or projects through technical plans and design principles compliant with enterprise and solution architecture standards, including security.




• Investigate operational needs, problems and opportunities and contribute to recommendations for improvements in automated and non-automated components of new or changed processes and organisation, assisting in the definition of acceptance tests.




• Define and manage scoping, requirements definition and prioritisation activities for initiatives of medium size and complexity, facilitating stakeholder input, reviewing requirements for errors and omissions




• Establishing baselines and managing authorised changes in line with change management policy.




• Design software components and modules using agreed software design standards, patterns and methodology, creating multiple design views, evaluating alternative design options and trade-offs, and leading reviews of others' designs.




• Design, code, verify, test, document, amend and refactor complex programs, scripts and integration software services, selecting appropriately between predictive and adaptive development approaches.




• Investigate corporate data requirements and apply data analysis, design, modelling and quality assurance techniques to establish, modify or maintain data structures, and implement physical database and data warehouse designs supporting transactional, business intelligence and data analytics needs.




• Provide technical expertise to configure software and system components for testing, collaborate with technical teams on system integration plans, define complex integration builds, ensure integration test environments are correctly configured and report integration test results.




• Implement stakeholder engagement and communications plans, manage problems, resolutions and corrective actions, and collect customer and stakeholder feedback to measure the effectiveness of stakeholder management.




• Where required, support the recruiting process and pre-selection of candidates, allocate work according to experience, complexity, workload and organisational efficiency, monitor team workload and provide direct reports with clear direction and targets aligned with business needs and GIT objectives.

Required Experience & Qualifications

• Four-year college or university degree with a focus on Business Administration or IT or related areas, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.




• Experience with SNP, IBP system and heuristic planning engine and Optimizer Planning Engine, CIDS and RTI expertise.




• Proficient spoken and written command of English.




• At least 7 years' experience in IT.




• 5 years' experience in a relevant area.




• 2 years' experience in team management.




• Strong understanding and knowledge of the regional and global market landscape and the respective customer.




• Experience managing critical elements and cross-functional and regional projects.

About the Company

Adidas is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive workplace, and welcomes applications from people of all ages, genders (including gender identity), ethnic and social backgrounds, nationalities, sexual orientations, religions and beliefs, and those with apparent or non-apparent disabilities; individuals with disabilities are actively encouraged to apply and reasonable accommodations are provided throughout the recruitment process. Adidas states that it does not tolerate harassment or discrimination toward any of its applicants or employees.

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