You're an original. So are we.
We're a company of people who like to create our own path. We invented the blue jean in 1873, and we reinvented khaki pants in 1986. We pioneered labour and environmental guidelines in manufacturing. And we build sustainability into everything we do. Our brands stand for freedom and self-expression around the world.
Where we lead, others follow. For more than 160 years, we've used the strength of our brands to lead with our values and change the world. We employ more than 15,000 people globally to support our great brands: Levi's®, Dockers®, Denizen®, Signature by Levi Strauss & Co.™ and Beyond Yoga.
About the Job
At LS&Co we’re embarking on a multi-year business transformation programme to position us for long-term success. The goal is to transform our supply chain, commercial operations and technology platform by implementing a scalable set of global systems. At the core of the programme, we are implementing SAP S/4 Fashion and rolling it out globally. We are also investing in other strategic platforms across supply chain and operations to allow the business to become an omnichannel DTC retailer.
As a Solution Architect within the CIO organisation at LS&Co IT you’ll manage the solution design for multiple large-scale, cross-domain projects within the portfolio. To be successful you’ll need to collaborate with software engineers, partners, enterprise architects and technology leaders to provide scalable solutions that are aligned with our technology and business capability roadmaps. You are passionate about technology and delivering value through technology.
Develop project level solution architecture and system concepts
Facilitate architecture design reviews
Collaborate with partners, Subject Matter Experts (SME) and other partners to define and document requirements
Understand the functional intent of requirements
Translate functional requirements into a technical solution that supports the e2e business process.
Lead efforts to scope and estimate technical deliverables
Manage the Important Design Decision Process and Design Escalations
Collaborate with enterprise architects and other solution architects to ensure that the solution architecture aligns with technology and business capability roadmaps
Develop technical designs in partnership with development teams that align with technology standards and architecture principles.
Perform software inspections and design reviews.
Ensure that technical and other non-functional requirements are designed into the end-to-end solution.
Guide resources working on technical solution and act as a point person for cross-project technical issues/resolution
Ensure development is following the solution design
Responsible for operational readiness and implementation strategy
Document technical debt and Identify opportunity to alleviate it
About You
10+ years working in Technology, preferably with experience implementing large-scale ERP projects on a global / enterprise level
5+ years’ Supply Chain architecture experience at vertically integrated retail businesses; work in an apparel or wholesale environment
An understanding of main Supply Chain trends
A technical background and an interest in technology and technology trends.
Experience with e2e business processes in Product Development, Sourcing & Costing, Planning, Order Management, Inbound Logistics, Distribution and other primary activities.
Experience implementing packaged solutions including ERPs (Oracle, SAP S/4, AFS), Logistics (Infor Nexus), Warehouse Management (Manhattan, BlueYonder), PLM (PTC FlexPLM), Master Data Management solutions and other package applications.
SAP functional or technical experience is good to have. In particular SAP HANA, ECC 6.0 (FICO, SD, MM), AFS 6.0, FMS, S4 HANA Finance, ABAP, NetWeaver.
An understating of different integration methodologies including Extract Transform Load, EDI, asynchronous messaging and service-based integration patterns.
Experience with SAP integration tools (iDocs, BAPI, PI/PO) or other integration tools such as MQ, MuleSoft, Kafka, FTP, or AS2.
Some cloud platform experience (Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure) is helpful.
Experience managing internal and external development teams at onsite and offshore locations.
Educational Requirements:
Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering or related discipline/experience.