PeopleSoft Solution Architect

Location: London, UK

Mandatory skill: Proven expertise in Accounts Payable (AP) and Accounts Receivable (AR) processes within PeopleSoft.

Purpose: The Solution Architect role is a leadership position which includes the following aspects:

• Own the relationship between Enterprise Architecture and delivery, communicating in both directions.
• Inform the EA roadmap to make it fit for purpose and achievable.
• Explain how to implement it.
• Take responsibility for specific components within the ecosystem.
• Hold and communicate the vision for how they will evolve to reach the target architectural state, reducing technical debt and staying in support.
• Produce solution options and technical designs for projects, consulting with scrums to ensure the designs are understood and viable.
• Play a hands-on technical role when required.
• Identify and proactively manage risks relating to the as-is and to-be technologies in the ecosystem.
• Work through governance processes to align with company standards.
• Work effectively with peers in the Solution Architect role, collaborating on and challenging each other’s work.
• Manage Technical Leads providing both technical and pastoral mentoring.
• Provide thought leadership as part of the IT Leadership Team, challenging where appropriate but supporting the position that is agreed.
• Maintain a culture of empowerment and continuous proactive improvement.
• Provide effective guidance to staff and scrums to help them contribute to the success of the organisation.
• Support training and development to maintain the competencies, behaviours and technical expertise of a high performing team.
• Assist in the development of AOP and Capital Expenditure plans.
• Underpin the delivery of both strategic and tactical projects/programmes across the Group.

Role Holder Qualities:

• IT professional with extensive knowledge and expertise in large, complex system environments.
• Technical excellence in your specialist area, combined with versatility and breadth of technical knowledge.
• Strong leadership and people skills and strong team player.
• Commercial awareness.
• Logical approach to software solutions and problem solving.
• Active and valued contributor in peer group and to upward reporting lines.

Accountabilities:

There will be a wide range of technical accountabilities and activities performed by the job holder depending on the specific discipline e.g. Design, Development, Support and environment Configuration.

Delivery Focused:

• Constantly challenge and drive forwards the levels of quality delivered by the team, in concert with your peers.
• As part of the IT Leadership Team, contribute to the overall development strategy and continuous improvement plans.

Qualifications and Training:

• Experience of working in a matrix managed environment, with mixed teams including contractors and outsourced vendors.
• Experience of working within Agile and Waterfall delivery methodologies.
• Ability to own and manage delivery risks and issues of a technical nature.
• Ability to know when to escalate to senior leadership when appropriate.
• Provide effective communication on the management and progression of risks and issues.
• Understands all aspects of quality management and builds quality control for all key development deliverables into the processes adopted within the Engineering function.
• Excellent appreciation of stakeholder expectations.
• Able to develop, maintain and strengthen relationships with key stakeholders.
• Excellent oral and written communication.
• Able to construct and deliver presentations and options papers.
• Able to facilitate groups to achieve desired solutions.
• Seeks opportunities to undertake training and mentoring of colleagues within the team and to more junior staff in the wider development community.

Technical skills:

• Enterprise standard architecture documentation.
• Designing high quality and repeatable processes that result in low levels of production issues.
• Awareness of industry best practice and new and upcoming technology trends.
• Full solution architectural understanding across networking and software.
• Experience managing large programmes of work across multiple delivery teams with varying technologies, ideally gained within an enterprise scale organisation within a technology or delivery team or similar.
• Tracking delivery timelines and interdependencies across multiple teams to report into stakeholders.
• Technical exposure to and/or experience in a range of technologies and architectural best practice concepts.
• Experienced PeopleSoft Solution Architect with a strong track record in leading end-to-end transformation projects across finance modules.
• Proven expertise in Accounts Payable (AP) and Accounts Receivable (AR) processes within PeopleSoft, including configuration, optimization, and integration.
• Skilled in designing and implementing complex workflow solutions to streamline operations and enhance system efficiency.
• Exposure and passion for new and emerging technologies and trends.