DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITES:
• Responsible for elicitation, analysis, and documentation of business requirements.
• Research and exploration of user requirements, costs, and benefits in support of documentation required for the demand management process.
• Responsible for analyzing the business needs to identify new processes and process improvements that will meet those needs.
• Documents current business processes and models to define requirements and/or gaps.
• Analyze detailed system factors including input/output requirements, information and paper flow, hardware, and software needs.
• Analyze “soft" system factors including roles, responsibilities, policy, culture, etc.
• Evaluate the impact of potential software and process changes on the organization.
• Develop and facilitate groups as necessary in pursuit of eliciting and defining requirements.
• Assist in the creation of the business case documentation.
• Understanding of architectural consistency and usability standards.
• Defines and develops user test cases and validates test results during testing.
• Executes unit and functional test cases.
• May conduct system demonstrations and training sessions, as well as participate in design/review of training content.
• Plays a third level support role by helping to troubleshoot and resolve issues with production systems.
• Participates in associate meetings and communicates any concerns to management.
QUALIFICATIONS AND REQUIREMENTS:
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Business, or another related field or equivalent work experience.
• Proven experience leading data migration requirements from legacy systems into a new ERP (Sage X3) environment
• Strong hands-on expertise in requirements elicitation, documentation, and management, with emphasis on data mapping, transformation rules, and validation
• Deep understanding of data structures, data quality, and migration best practices, with the ability to identify gaps and risks early
• Self-driven and accountable professional with strong stakeholder management and communication skills, able to drive outcomes with minimal oversight
• Working knowledge of Confluence and JIRA.
• Experience in any of the following business areas is desired: Sales operations, order entry, accounting, finance, procurement, warehouse operations, order management, and order fulfillment.
• Minimum of 3-5 years’ business analysis or systems analysis experience is preferred.
• Bonus: Sage X3 experience (ERP).
Associate is expected to operate at a proficient level across the following areas of technical knowledge and skill:
• Ability to organize and prioritize work.
• Detail oriented, proactive, creative, and efficient
• Intermediate level abilities in Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Visio, and Word
• Familiarity with application integration methods to include understanding of data mapping process.
• Ability to effectively work both independently and collaboratively in a team environment
• Ability to work on simultaneous and complex projects, with domain expertise in at least one business area.
• Expertise in ERP solution selection and implementation is a plus
• Ability to communicate effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences in written and non-written format
• Ability to work with all levels of associates
• Ability to work with minimal supervision in a very dynamic environment
• Ability to learn new systems and tools
• Knowledge of software development life cycle methodologies, processes, and procedures.
• Active listener
• Effective in a variety of formal/informal presentation settings: one-on-one, small, and large groups.
Job Title: Solution Architecture Consultant
Location: REMOTE
Duration: 12 Months
Canadian Locals Only
The domain architect advisor is responsible for the consistency, alignment and evolution of the solution architecture of their domain in conjunction with the integration solution architecture advisors, business architecture advisors and enterprise architecture advisors.
Main responsibilities
- Define and maintain the strategic architectural vision for the commercial brokerage domain (according to business, data, application, and technology views) while integrating company priorities.
- Implementing the target IT architecture – Commercial and Brokerage Systems (IT Emphasis)
- Conduct preliminary studies, positioning and design phases, and make appropriate technological recommendations
- Organize, manage and deliver guidance work on specific technical topics requiring consensus from multiple stakeholders
- Oversee the development and evolution of policies, standards, architectural targets, and technological solutions that consider data, application, and infrastructure aspects in support of your unit's strategic projects and initiatives.
- Identify and analyze problems. Highlight key issues. Establish frameworks and make recommendations to the relevant bodies and committees.
- Identify IT opportunities for modernization, simplification, and optimization of your domain
- Mapping the capabilities of one's domain and the trajectories of development based on
- Produce architectural opinions on the solutions proposed by the solution architects
- Participate in architecture governance (reviews, arbitration, prioritization) to ensure that solutions comply with guidelines and standards.
- To act as a trusted advisor to business and IT stakeholders.
- Ensure inter-domain consistency and limit technological debt.
- Advising business and IT leaders on key strategic choices (build vs buy, modernization, cloud).
- Facilitating architecture, framing and design workshops.
- To act as an influential leader, without hierarchical authority.
- Describe and popularize the solutions using architectural diagrams and models (ideally in Archimate).
Requirements and qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline
- Eight (8) years of relevant experience
- Technical leadership experience
- Expert-level knowledge of the insurance field.
- Extensive knowledge of the Guidewire Cloud, Majesco, and Sapiens ecosystems
- Knowledge of Guidewire 's "Advance Product Designer" is an asset
- Expertise in large-scale assessment of the implementation and migration of insurance products.
- General Insurance IT ecosystem (EIS, Kafka, etc.) is an asset
- Expertise in writing executive-level documents.
- Expertise in profit analysis and ROI calculation.
- Expertise in enterprise architecture (TOGAF or equivalent approach).
- Capability modeling, target architectures, roadmaps.
- Mastery of integration, data and modern architecture concepts.
- Excellent command of integrations (APIs, events, interoperability), data and their governance, modern architectures (cloud, hybrid, service-oriented).
- Understanding of agile, product and scaled environments.
- Architecture governance and decision-making processes.
- ArchiMate modeling language and conceptual modeling tools (Asset).
- Strong focus on value creation and simplification.
- Experience in a regulated environment (a major asset in insurance).
- Leadership, systems thinking and the ability to synthesize information.
- Excellent communication and popularization skills.
- Ability to navigate complexity and to influence positively.
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