Associate Principal Engineer -- Infor M3 Supply Chain Functional Solution Architect

Summary Provide global functional solution architecture leadership for Infor M3 supply chain, manufacturing, warehousing, branch, and logistics capabilities.

The Solution Architect converts business requirements into cohesive, scalable, and supportable M3 designs; governs regional variation and customization; and guides analysts, developers, Infor, and delivery partners through design, testing, deployment, and stabilization.

Key Responsibilities

Functional Architecture and Solution Design

• Own end-to-end M3 functional architecture across demand and supply planning, procurement, manufacturing, inventory, warehousing, branch operations, fulfillment, shipping, quality, maintenance, and logistics. • Translate business requirements into solution options, global and regional design decisions, process flows, functional specifications, and acceptance criteria. • Write functional design documents or approve those written by regional analysts. • Assess impacts across M3 modules, companies and divisions, master data, integrations, reporting, security, documents, controls, and edge applications. • Define where regional variation is required and where common global design should be maintained. • Promote standard CloudSuite capabilities and process alternatives before endorsing customization. • Support design reviews, fit-to-standard decisions, system integration testing, user acceptance testing, cutover, hypercare, and stabilization. • Ensure regional requirements, compliance initiatives, monthly updates, and approved enhancements remain aligned with the global solution. • Guide regional analysts and delivery partners and ensure designs are understood, documented, tested, and supportable. • Design Governance and Customization Control Co-lead the ERP Design Authority with ERP Technical Architecture and other Functional Solution Architects. • Evaluate proposed solutions for business value, operational efficiency, process fit, complexity, testing burden, support cost, release impact, and lifecycle risk. • Review Infor and partner designs and require complete documentation, traceability, knowledge transfer, and operational ownership. • Maintain functional architecture standards, decision records, process and configuration principles, and an inventory of significant regional variations. Operational Support and Continuous Improvement • Provide retained L3 functional leadership for complex incidents, recurring problems, and high-impact operational issues. • Partner with Service Operations, regional analysts, ERP Engineering, and Integration Engineering to restore service and define permanent correction. • Assess CloudSuite updates and planned releases for functional and operational impact to supply-chain, manufacturing, warehousing, branch, and logistics processes.