Senior ERP Solutions Architect in London

The Senior Solution Architect at Infor is responsible for owning and leading the functional solution design across Infor applications, ensuring alignment with Infor's Cloud Suite off‐the‐shelf solutions and industry best practices. This role demands strategic oversight of solution architecture governance, minimal customization emphasis, and innovation embedding to drive maximal business value for clients. The Senior Solution Architect works collaboratively with client stakeholders, internal teams, and other architecture roles to deliver coherent scalable, and maintainable solutions.

Functional Solution Design Ownership

• Own the end‐to‐end functional solution design across one or more Infor applications, primarily focusing on fit to standard configurations that minimise extensions and customisations.
• Ensure alignment of the solution design with industry best practices embedded within Infor's Cloud Suite offerings.
• Shape and confirm the scope during sales and engagement phases, ensuring alignment to business outcomes and product roadmaps.
• Maintain design integrity through to cutover, protecting the reuse of standard configurations and challenging unnecessary customisations.

Architecture Governance

• Set and enforce product‐fit design standards and architecture governance for the application stream.
• Approve configuration choices made by consultants, ensuring conformity with design principles and solution integrity.
• Collaborate with Technical Architects to define application level RICE Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements and data requirements.
• Work with Enterprise and Industry Solution Architects to align application scope and maintain architectural consistency across the ecosystem.

Innovation and Technology Enablement

• Identify and champion opportunities to embed AI, automation, and emerging technologies within solution designs to enhance business outcomes.
• Lead adoption of innovations that complement CloudSuite's standard processes and deliver measurable client value.
• Stay abreast of industry trends and Infor's evolving technology capabilities to drive continuous solution improvement.

Stakeholder Leadership and Team Coordination

• Act as the primary architect for the application stream, especially for Edge (stand‐alone) deployments owning full application architecture.
• Collaborate with senior client stakeholders, guiding them on solution strategy and design decisions.
• Lead and coordinate functional consultants and specialists, providing final decision‐making authority on application design and scope.
• Partner with sales, delivery, and customer success teams to ensure smooth transitions from engagement through to delivery and ongoing support.

Consultancy and Strategic Alignment

• Support sales and engagement teams by validating solution fit and defining business benefits aligned with client strategy.
• Contribute to success roadmaps, benefits realization frameworks, and governance oversight to ensure delivery of promised business value.
• Apply Principle Based Management (PBM) principles – Vision, Virtue & Talents, Knowledge, Comparative Advantage, Motivation – in all aspects of solution architecture.

Risk Management and Quality Assurance

• Identify architectural risks and manage change requests or deviations to maintain solution quality and client satisfaction.
• Ensure security, privacy, and compliance requirements are incorporated within solution designs.
• Develop roadmaps to migrate or extend solution components consistent with organizational strategy and cloud adoption plans.

A Day in the Life

• Lead the fit‐to‐standard solution design and scope shaping with sales and delivery teams.
• Govern configuration and design integrity, approving consultant work and minimizing customisations.
• Drive innovation through AI and new technology integration within solution designs.
• Manage relationships with senior stakeholders and coordinate multidisciplinary teams to ensure delivery success.
• Collaborate with technical and enterprise architects to ensure architectural consistency and data integration.
• Oversee risk management, compliance, and quality assurance in architectural decisions.
• Support benefits realization and articulate the business value of solutions aligning with client strategies.

Basic Qualifications

• Extensive experience in enterprise solution architecture, preferably within ERP or Cloud Suite environments.
• Strong functional knowledge of Infor applications and industry best practices.
• Proven ability to design fit‐to‐standard solutions minimizing customisations.
• Experience leading cross‐functional teams and managing senior stakeholder relationships.
• Skilled in leveraging emerging technologies, including AI, to enhance solution value.
• Familiarity with SFIA skill framework and Principle Based Management (PBM).
• Excellent communication, leadership, and problem‐solving abilities.

Core Competencies

• Functional and technical solution architecture.
• Architecture governance and standards enforcement.
• Client and stakeholder leadership.
• Innovation in solution design, AI automation.
• Collaborative teamwork and cross‐role partnership.
• Risk and quality management.
• Strategic alignment and benefits realization.
• Application of PBM principles to architecture and delivery.

About Infor

Infor is where ambition meets impact. Join a global community of bold thinkers and innovators, where your expertise doesn't just solve problems but shapes industries, unlocks opportunities, and creates real‐world impact for billions of people. At Infor, you're not just building a career – you're helping to build what's next. Infor is a global leader in business cloud software products for companies in industry‐specific markets. Infor builds complete industry suites in the cloud and efficiently deploys technology that puts the user experience first, leverages data science, and integrates easily into existing systems. Over 60,000 organizations worldwide rely on Infor to help overcome market disruptions and achieve business‐wide digital transformation.

Equal Opportunity Statement

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