Introduction

A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe. Youll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio

Your role and responsibilities

As a Solution Architect youll be a pivotal team member who connects the clients technical functional and implementation requirements with a solution design and proposal. Youll work closely with clients and sellers to build solutions based on the meeting the clients business outcomes and known best practices for the technology and industry. In this fast-paced role, youll design, and construct build work breakdown structure leading to the rough order of magnitude leading to the price and statement of work. A successful Solution Architect will demonstrate a natural bias towards self-motivation and navigating data and people to find answers and present solutions that ensure world class delivery. If you are passionate about success with both your career and solving clients business challenges, this role is for you. To help achieve this win-win outcome, a day-in-the-life of this opportunity may include, but not be limited to¦ End-to-End Technical Guidance: Providing expert end-to-end technical guidance to lead discovery discussions with prospective clients, assess architecture needs for projects, work with technical leads and sellers to create proposals. Finding the Best Architectural Outcomes: Leading client workshops

Required education

Bachelors Degree

Preferred education

Masters Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

8-12 Years of SAP functional experience specializing in design and configuration of SAP APO modules - At least skill in 2 modules expected (e.g., DP+SNP, SNP+PPDS, DP+GATP etc.)
Experience in gathering business requirements, providing conceptual and detailed designs to meet business needs, performing necessary SAP configurations, writing detail specifications for development of custom programs, testing, co-ordination of transports to production and post go live support
The person should have least 2 end to end SAP implementation experience
Should be able to create requirement specifications based on Architecture/Design/Detailing of Processes
Also the candidate should have Min one Industry expertise preferably from CPG, Oil&Gas, Automotive, Retail, Pharma or equivalent

Preferred technical and professional experience

Proven work experience in GATP would be an added advantage
Working knowledge of CIF, SNP Optimizer and CTM engine will be preferred
For practitioner with APO DP skill should have working knowledge of BW

Package Consultant-SAP SCM APO