ERP Platforms Team - Junior ICT Architect

Job description

Job Description

Date: Sep 12, 2018

Job summary

Come join our ERP Platforms Team as a Junior ICT Architect. In this Job you will support other Architects in the team in vital Role of Leading transformation of Ericsson’s current SAP Business Suite Systems Landscape. This is a SAP System Landscape that consist of about 37 production- and 140+ non-production systems, providing Enterprise Core Capabilities to the Ericson business.

The Team you join is focusing on transformation themes such as e.g. on how to increase usage of cloud-based offerings, roll-out of mobility capabilities and in automation of operation and business flows.

As a Junior Architect for the SAP Landscape you will, supported by other colleagues, take on responsibility for securing that Strategies and Architecture Plans gets successfully implemented as optimized solution- and platform changes. You will support implementation of the ERP applied Architecture Plan to secure that Cost-, Security-, Architecture-, Sustainability-, Availability-, Performance- and Operational Stability is meeting demanding requirements as of today and in the long-term Product Life Cycle perspective.

You will work with a good mix of different tasks, spanning from setting Quality Improvement Plans, preparing for investment decisions, Supplier Management as well as with execution of plans and projects evolving the SAP Landscape towards future business demands.

In the ERP Platforms Team, we also have colleagues working with implementation-, divestment-, mergers and acquisitions projects executed all around the globe. This gives the Team good input on business needs and improvement areas, often leading to requests on helping the business with SAP Digital Transformation assignments.

Responsibilities & Tasks:

·  Define Architecture Strategy, Roadmap, and Drop-Plans.
·  Improve product and portfolio architecture leading to reduction of Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and/or Operational Stability and/or Security/Sustainability/Compliance improvements.
·  Lead development of domain target architecture.
·  Set and maintain Architecture Plan/s to steer towards Compliance-, Security, Quality-, Cost- and Sustainability Targets.
·  Prepare Portfolio/Product/Platform decisions and Lead execution of Architecture plans.
·  Establish a cooperative working environment with Business-, IT- and supplier colleagues.

Position Qualification

Core Competences

·  Knowledge in SAP products and offerings.
·  Passionate about Technology, Information Management, and its business value.
·  Knowledgeable in ITIL.
·  Financial acumen and skills.
·  Learning and researching.
·  Experience and competency in IT Development design models
( Waterfall development, Agile- and Lean development, test driven development, and acceptance driven development).
·  Experience of working with global IT service providers (both on and off shore).
·  Knowledgeable in Change Management.
·  Knowledgeable in how to prepare and follow-up a business case and in how to

optimize Total Cost of Ownership.

Behavioral Competences

·  Interpersonal skills and communication capabilities
(customer oriented, flexible, strong ability to build and maintain relationships and being a good listener).
·  A background of delivering results and meeting Customer expectations.
·  Entrepreneurial and Commercial thinking.
·  Influencing and marketing skills.
·  Analyzing, Presenting & Communicating Information.
·  Leading and Supervising.

Preferred Qualification & Experience Requirements

·  University degree preferred within technology field.
·  2+ years’ of SAP experience.
·  1+ years’ experience of Architecture Management work.
·  Knowledge of software design principles.

Additional Requirements, Physical Demands, Region/Local

Specification

·  The position will be in Bangalore, India.

Hiring manager

·  John Solbreck, Head of ERP Platforms

Why is Ericsson a great place to work?

Ericsson enables communications service providers to capture the full value of connectivity. The company’s portfolio spans Networks, Digital Services, Managed Services, and Emerging Business and is designed to help our customers go digital, increase efficiency, find new revenue streams, and create new user experiences. Ericsson’s investments in innovation have delivered the benefits of telephony and mobile broadband to billions of people around the world ensuring our solutions – and our customers – are at the forefront of innovation. We support networks that connect more than 2.5 billion subscribers. With over 100,000 employees and customers in 180 countries, we combine global scale with technology and service leadership. 40 percent of the world’s mobile traffic is carried over an Ericsson network. And, our Technology for Good and Connect to Learn programs include creating technology that makes it easier to save lives, feed societies, bring technology to emerging markets and connectivity to remote areas, and grow businesses and prosperity.

At Ericsson, we give our employees the freedom to think big and navigate their career, on a global scale. We create technology that helps others, from helping people enjoy their favourite content to helping people recover from natural disasters by enabling better communications between rescue workers. Your ideas and innovations can turn into achievements that impact society and change the world, creating new connections, new possibilities, and new capabilities. We find that Ericsson is at its best when we bring together the diverse skills of our people. Working across business areas, across cultures, across geographical borders, across technical disciplines. More often than not, across ground-breaking solutions. Next generation technology can be staggeringly complex. But the simpler it is to use; the more people benefit from it. Join us and help build technology that makes it simple to connect with information, business, societies, and each other.