ARAS Consultant Architect @ Sopra Steria

Overview:

As an Aras PLM Solution Architect, you will be leading successful customer deployments of Aras Innovator solutions. You will lead the technical implementation team during the planning, elaboration, design, construction, and transition of solutions to the customer. You will be accountable for the overall technical software solution delivered. Demonstration of technical leadership, large team management, organization skills, and the ability to negotiate with key customer stakeholders are essential in ensuring success.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Should be a single point of contact for a project involving the ARAS PLM platform on technical inputs
2. Facilitate workshops, develop solutions, and build consensus across all stakeholders to ensure timely and successful delivery of technology aligned to business value
3. Work closely and collaboratively with stakeholders to understand and capture requirements and devise effective technical solutions.
4. Develop conceptual solution architecture using a combination of standard and custom applications to produce end-to-end customer solution
5. Lead as well as support the development of requirements specifications, Use Cases, and functional specifications
6. Perform solution analysis and develop customer-facing proposals and contribute to the development of proposals/statements of work
7. Transform customer requirements into technical solutions through a thorough understanding of the Aras Innovator suite of tools
8. Lead or participate in the delivery of Proof-of-Concept engagements at key prospects
9. Provide input to the development team regarding methodology and tools
10. Provide coaching and mentoring to other team members as necessary
11. Assign tasks to project members and review the team s work products to ensure that they are accurate and consistent. Supervises and manages project teams as appropriate.
12. Supervise and manage technical teams that may be located either onsite or offshore
13. Should be technology agnostic and understand the emerging technologies and applicability around the Aras Innovator platform.
14. Should be up to date on Aras Innovator solutions and be proactive in understanding customer s business and suggest timely usage.
15. Should be able to act as subject matter expert for the domain, processes, and methodology.
16. Able to adapt to the latest technologies, frameworks, and tools quickly.
17. Lead and Support in activities such as technical discovery, demos, proof of value, POC, presentation, sizing, and documentation of technical decision criteria
18. Drive the development team to use the latest and better technologies.
19. Create and ensure best practices, standards, and documentation among development teams.
20. Bring in Continuous Improvement using DevOps solutions.
21. Lead and Participate in ongoing training programs and conduct training as needed.

Skills:

1. Hands-on experience with Aras PLM Innovator performing configuration and customization, integrations at the enterprise level is strongly desired.
2. Should be well versed with Aras Platform architecture and its majority of modules.
3. Must be able to write clear, understandable Requirements, SOW, Specification documents, and Use Cases.
4. Have a thorough understanding of large-scale enterprise application deployment methodologies with experience leading teams in an Agile / Scrum environment
5. Excellent communication, interpersonal, and presentation skills, fluent in English and should be able to handle discussions with stakeholders independently.
6. Ability to work in teams, in a global environment, and manage multiple priorities and deliverables concurrently.
7. Highly organized and self-motivated with the ability to prioritize, meet deadlines, and manage changing priorities
8. Strong rapport and relationship building skills with both internal individuals and external customers. Must be an effective communicator in difficult customer situations
9. Proven strong project management skills with accountability for end-to-end delivery
10. Strong planning, problem solving, and decision-making skills
11. Technically self-sufficient with data modelling techniques, SQL Server and Microsoft Office products. Installation and configuration of SQL Server, SQL Scripting (Transact SQL), SQL triggers, stored procedures, functions, etc.
12. Must be proficient with web programming languages such as: C# (.NET), JS, HTML, XML, XSL
13. Good experience with Web API Services: REST and SOAP
14. Experience in best practices and tools around CI/CD
15. Exposure to cloud Azure/AWS
16. Experience with data migration techniques from legacy systems.

Preferred Qualifications:

1. ARAS Innovator certification or related training.
2. Experience with Agile methodologies for software development.
3. Knowledge of DevOps practices for continuous integration and delivery.
4. Experience working in industries such as manufacturing, automotive, aerospace, or electronics.
5. Airbus experience

Total Experience Expected: 10-14 years