Senior Technical Architect - Category Management

The main responsibilities are:

• Drive the technical design, optimization, integration, and implementation of the company's Retail Category Management software solutions for customers, utilizing industry best practices and process methodologies. Will also provide clear construct and validation tasks and timeline
• Serve as a technical owner attending and contributing to key meetings between Project Manager, Solution Architects, key customer contacts, and customer users, up to and including key executive project sponsors
• Conduct technical analysis sessions with clients and/or the project team to understand the functional needs and develop technical solutions to support the requirements
• Provide variety of support to the project team, including quality assurance/design review, environment setup, software installation, configuration, batch operations consulting, troubleshooting, system testing and programming
• Interact with Product Management Group and Product Development Teams regarding new releases and new functionality and act as the liaison to communicate to the rest of the team
• Work with Support Services team to make Customer Stable post go-live and venture towards value realization
• Conduct and/or guide system integration, user acceptance testing and deployment phases of the project to ensure a seamless transition to steady team associates
• Sustain the balance between project scope, timeline, and technical requirements to ensure successful time to value and definitive customer satisfaction
• Assess technical needs that fall outside the standard solution and/or scope, and assess integration complexity, architecture constraints and/or product roadmaps
• Volunteer for new challenges and eager to learn and challenge himself for new tasks as well build a network outside the immediate team and encourage an atmosphere where team can thrive

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