Solution Architect - Procurement and Finance

We are looking for a Solution Architect, who would be responsible for designing architectural solutions that solves specific business requirements. including infrastructure, security, integration, and test of the solutions according to existing strategies, principles and best practices to meet the organization’s current and future business needs. This involves understanding existing systems and technology, including comprehending the relationships, dependencies and flows of information.

Your responsibilities will also include:

• Be a first point of contact for the architectural runway for Finance and Procurements, and ESG capabilities

The Solution Achitect is responsbile for designing solution architures, i.e. design solution that solves specific business requirements.
The Solution Architects acts in the border line between business and the wider Digital technical/enginering teams, i.e. acting as the design authority across several Digital technologies that comprises the solution architecture design.
The Solution architect is anchored deeply in a (or more) Business Capability e.g. Manufacturing or in a dedicated Digital Platform, e.g. Microsoft Azure. For this specific roles we expect a solution architetct with knowledge ERP and Procurement processes and systems.
The Solution Architect facilitates business dialogues to formulate a concrete Business requirement that requires a digital solution. This represent a core skill of the Solution Architect, namely to express a Business requirement in a clear and concrete manner. The Solution Architect then designs a Solution Architecture to solve the presented requirement. That design is the foundation for more specialised Digital teams work with concrete solution delivery.
The Solution Architect oversees the delivery cycle and quality assures the solutions being developed.

The Solution Architect must possess excellent communication skills and be able to elevate from deep technical conversations to more abstract business conversations to secure that business requirements and contexts are properly understood and conveyed to Digital teams and vice versa that deep teechnical matters are conveyed and discussed with business in a non-technical manner.

• Design, analyses and specify efficient architectural solutions, based on standard global business processes using best practices and communicate the impact that certain functional and technical choices have
• Design with re-use in mind
• Design with templatization in mind
• Design with technological debt in mind
• Identify problems and opportunities within Hempel and provide Digital solutions in line with overall Hempel strategy and Enterprise Architecture guidelines.
• Attend SCRUM ceremonies
• Convert architectural design and requirements into Features and Stories using DevOps
• Communicate with Business Analysts in order to map Business requirements into functional and Technical Features and Stories
• Coordinate with developers to build and implement technology solutions
• Provide advice and knowledge sharing
• Participate in defining overall roadmap creation as well as epics, features and user stories
• Describe the structure, characteristics, behavior and other aspects of software solutions to stakeholders
• Engage external suppliers in connection with project related activities to ensure architectural advice is followed

Required education, experience and job-related skills

• Master/Bachelor degree in IT/Digital Business or relevant
• Min. 3 years of experience in a solution architect role
• Deep understanding of IT architecture, integration patterns and databases
• Good understanding with Microsoft Azure DevOps including CI/CD pipelines and automated testing
• Experience in  software architecture, design principles and integrations patterns
• Experience of designing Cloud based solutions, preferably in the Microsoft Azure Cloud
• Solid understanding of Security and  Compliance requirements
• Solid understanding of business processes
• Experience with agile methodologies (Scrum, SAFe) and process excellence

Experience working in an international environment with teams and stakeholders in multiple locations and time zones

• Excellent Working English, verbal and in writing