Solution Architect

Solution Architect

Solution Architect
Global Solutions Delivery  Chicago, IL

Company Overview
Vendavo is the leading provider of price management and optimization solutions for large enterprises worldwide. The company's solution drives bottom-line results by giving businesses true enterprise-wide control of their entire pricing process. Vendavo's enterprise-class software solution delivers big increases in profits—from 10-30 percent—by systematically driving incremental improvements in average prices throughout the pricing process. Vendavo is the enterprise pricing solution of choice for more than 200 company divisions at some of the world's biggest names in high-tech, manufacturing, chemicals, consumer products, medical devices, mill products, and distribution. SAP, the worldwide leader in enterprise software, offers the Vendavo solution as SAP Price and Margin Management by Vendavo™.

Position Overview
We are looking for Solution Architect to lead the design and implementation of Price and Margin Management solution for large companies. The Solution Architect will play a critical role in managing the solution delivery.

Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible for leading a group of technical resources from design phase to the completion of large, multi-divisional customer implementation
• Responsible for engaging the customer IT group to help facilitate and estimate the hardware and software environment required for the project
• Responsible for resolution of technical issues either through project level technical changes or working with product management and engineering groups to find core-product based solutions
• Extensive travel to client sites throughout the US, 50% travel required as part of customer project delivery

Skills Required:

• Requires 7+ years progressive technical experience including: Object and data modeling; J2EE/Java and web-based application development; Integration design and development using ETL tools, Web Services, SOAP, and middleware; XML and SQL; Oracle database and J2EE application server
• Demonstrated large scale project management and implementation expertise
• Understanding of development methodology and actual experience writing functional and technical design specifications
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, in person, by telephone, and with large teams
• Strong prior technical, development background in either Services or Engineering - 5+ years of hands on solution design experience; experience developing applications on top of platforms
• ERP and platform configuration implementation experience (SAP, Siebel, Oracle, Peoplesoft, I2, etc.)
• The candidate should be comfortable with modern web based application technologies and be able to mentor and work with technical team members spread over multiple time zones
• Knowledge of Oracle database and application server (Weblogic, Netweaver, or Websphere) required
• Demonstrated experience resolving complex business and application problems; performance analysis a big plus
• 3+ years managing technical project teams
• Supply chain management, CRM, or pricing experience is advantageous, SAP integration experience a plus
• Requires a bachelor's degree in CS, CE or EE 

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