****Travel position****

Responsibilities:

• Take ownership of the overall solution design and ensure that system requirements are translated effectively into solutions, including review and assurance of Service Provider design documentation.
• Ensure that solutions are implemented in a way that meets the original business/IS strategy requirement: analyze business challenges and define business processes required to meet customer requirements.
• Identify opportunities to transform business and system processes by leveraging standard IT solutions.
• Assurance that core elements of the design confirm to standards and design principles.
• Accountable for creating Architectural artefacts and driving resolution of issues that lie behind the system requirements.
• Driving impact assessment of any change requests to requirements providing input to the Program Management Team and Change control board on changes in scope and solution. Articulate any system or plan impact and manage design of a solution that integrates correctly with the wider IT systems and strategy. Ensure service providers and service integrators meet the needs identified in change requests in an effective and cost-efficient manner.
• Participate in design authority forums and Architecture review boards to provide direction and make design decisions.
• Supporting the design and development of operational processes, aligned to service provider contract requirements.

Qualifications:

• Strong Demonstrable SAP Experience including full end to end project lifecycle in Gas, Electricity or Water implementations.
• A proven track record in the field of SAP Utilities Solutions e.g. CRM/CCS, ISU Billing, EDM Invoicing, Device Management, FICA.
• Experience of architecting SAP IS-U Customer Care & Billing Solutions.
• Ability to develop and maintain solution architecture documents, establish policies & standards to meet the developing needs of the business.
• Ability to understand business requirements and manage conversion into designs, configuration & functional specification whilst maintaining integrity of overall application design.
• Knowledge of overall IS-U data design end to end.
• Ability to assess emerging business & regulatory changes and articulate how these can positively impact your client.