Solution Architect

Summary

Join Vendavo's growing Professional Services team as a Solution Architect! You will collaborate closely with clients, leading technical discovery, training, solution design, and on-site consultations. Key responsibilities include training customers, leading workshops, creating solution designs, and advocating for client needs. Success requires strong communication, technical expertise in Vendavo products, and experience with Agile methodologies. The role involves approximately 30% travel. Vendavo offers a modern office in central Stockholm with a hybrid work style, flexible hours, and a comprehensive benefits package.

Requirements

• 5+ years of Solution delivery experience
• Demonstrated track record of designing and implementing complex solutions for enterprise-level customers
• The technical skills and experience to become an expert on Vendavo products, to map those to customers’ needs, and to design and construct holistic solutions to fill those needs
• Excellent communication skills to understand customer requirements, collaborate on an execution plan, and articulate solutions and tradeoffs
• Experience with Agile development methodologies
• Experience writing functional and technical design specifications
• Able to mentor and work with team members across multiple time zones
• Strong organizational and analytical skills
• Experience with Integration design and object/data modeling
• Experience with Performance analysis and tuning
• Bachelor's Degree in CS, CE or EE
• A passport valid for international travel from time to time

Responsibilities

• Train and advise customers’ managers, architects, and developers in the best ways to use Vendavo technology
• Lead client workshops with a strong grasp on the clients business needs
• Create and present solution designs and architecture specifications to customers, as well as documentation and project templates to the rest of your team
• Spend quality time with our customers, get to know their requirements and requests inside and out, and advocate for them to the rest of the company
• Think thoughtfully about the short term and long-term implications of your advice, and about how to balance the customer's needs with your team's needs and Vendavo’s business goals
• Turn big problems into small problems and figure out what is important, what is not, and everything in-between, with engagements limited in both time and scope by explicit contracts
• Inspire our customers. Implement Vendavo solutions to meet customers' needs today, and teach them how to leverage it in their pricing maturity journey
• Provide architectural guidance and design leadership to the project team

Preferred Qualifications

• Supply chain management, CRM, or pricing experience is advantageous, SAP or other ERP integration experience a plus
• Prior technical or development background - experience with Java/J2EE/C#/.Net/Javascript/HTML and Oracle/DB2/SQLServer is a plus

Benefits

• Modern office located in central Stockholm at Hötorgsskraporna with views over the city, walking distance to the central station, and surrounded by plenty of amenities
• Hybrid work-style with the flexibility to work remotely on an occasional basis
• Flexible working hours
• Working within a team of friendly, skilled people where help is always within reach
• 30 vacation days per year in addition to public holidays
• 4 recharge days, where the entire company goes on a brief pause in all geographies for 1 day each quarter. This day can be spent in whatever way helps you recharge, to regain energy, and dive back into the next workday
• 16 hours of paid volunteer time per year
• Insurances – TGL, Accident Insurance, Travel Insurance
• Complementary sickness insurance
• Long-term sickness prevention insurance
• Pension contributions
• Membership in Benify
• Wellness allowance (Friskvård) 5000 SEK/year
• Cellphone and cellphone plan
• High-end laptop (Dell XPS or Mac)
• Special celebrations (Semledagen, kanelbullens dag etc.)
• Quarterly office events (bowling, boat cruise, after-work)
• Competitive pay and bonus/commission