Become A Business Solutions Architect

* Serve as the solution lead for new opportunities and direct large proposal efforts leading virtual teams and collaborating with local and global resources
* Understand client business needs and industry trends in depth to spark innovative thinking and develop trusted advisor relationships with client executives
* Work with the Dealer Industry team to develop and execute selling strategies
* Proactively deliver strategic messages and roadmaps to new and existing clients
* Lead client workshops and requirements discovery sessions
* Provide qualification expertise to assist in evaluation of client business needs and align them based upon Avanade differentiators
* Provide solution fit assessment against client requirements
* Help create and deliver innovative solution demonstrations of Avanade offerings, D365FO and supporting software, including relevant ISV solutions
* Assist in building relationships with opportunity channel partners to enable collaboration
* Support business value assessment and business case development
* Deliver high quality written and oral presentations
* Marketing and Solution Development (20%):
* Assist in building relationships and evangelize Avanade offerings with Accenture, Microsoft, industry groups and clients
* Provide input to the Region Offering Lead & Marketing Manager in developing & executing plans for brand development, client referrals, market awareness & market positioning
* Represent Avanade at relevant client and industry events and write POV documents which create positive exposure for Avanade
* Evangelize D365FO based offerings within the industry vertical within the egion
* Actively participate in Avanade industry and offering development communities and contribute directly to the development of Avanade intellectual property and solution assets
* Delivery Support (20%):
* Participate in envision stage client engagements leading workshops and providing solution design leadership and guidance
* Sales stage knowledge transfer with project delivery team
* Objectives:
* Sales support (sales and revenue targets)
* Solution asset development and harvesting of field-generated assets
* Continual growth and maintaining of solution skills and certifications
* Active leader in Avanade industry communities

* Design, develop and implement innovative solutions collaboratively with clients using SAFe methods to support sales activities delivering on exceptional customer digital experiences that achieve Brand goals.
* Supports the selling and upselling process by providing demos, technical solutions to client objectives and anticipating future client needs.
* Partner closely with Product Management by participating in product planning and sharing feedback from the selling process.
* Collaborate with various partners to understand requirements and viable technologies in order to determine evolving client needs.
* Become an expert in Broadridge's offerings to provide end to end digital solutions to current and potential client challenges.
* Participate in discovery, needs/requirements gathering and root cause analysis to ensure both technical and business needs are met.
* Deliver effective presentations and demo products to current and potential clients that reflects Broadridge's current and future capabilities.
* Collaborate with various teams to ensure alignment on the digital strategic vision, prioritization of new business initiatives, project updates and to resolve product issues
* Provide leadership on user story sequencing that leverages team productivity
* Remain up to date on cutting technology within the digital environment, including awareness of competitive solutions

* Become the leading expert on the technologies that drive the line-of-business and how they are used (processes, workflows, integrations, etc) by working closely with our business leaders as well as our technology organization.
* Develop a deep understanding of both the current and future state line-of-business needs and how those relate to technology.
* Own the solutions architecture for the line-of-business, both in its current state and the changes to drive it forward in line with future business and technology strategy.
* Design technology solutions that best match the business needs with general enterprise technology capabilities that Scholastic already has, as well as details of what is needed where there are gaps in existing capabilities.
* Conduct technical analysis and present design options of business solutions as part of the project intake process for new initiatives.
* Build and maintain the current-state and future-state solutions architecture views for various specific initiatives for the business.
* Drive broader architectures when the overall solution spans multiple technology domains.
* Deliver various artifacts as part of the solutions architecture, including reference designs, architecture roadmaps/backlogs, and tech debt inventories.
* Design the appropriate integration patterns between domain applications and the rest of the enterprise.
* Collaborate with domain architects across the organization on the details of the capabilities needed in their areas to deliver broader business solutions.
* Work with enterprise data, applications, systems, and security architects in relation to overall solution architecture.
* Direct resolution of complex process/technology issues in both production and pre-production environments.
* Support complex legacy systems retirement due diligence to provide visibility of issues in advance, and work with businesses to implement new solutions to allow legacy retirements to proceed.
* Participate on the architecture council to provide governance and build processes to guide and sanction critical architectural decisions.
* Monitor market/technology trends along with vendor strategies and determine potential impact to our businesses and systems.
* Develop, document, and present recommendation proposals, including selection criteria, evaluation, analysis of options, tradeoffs, justifications, and final selections.
* Take an active and insightful role in group discussions.
* HOW YOU CAN FIT
* BA or BS in a technical discipline, advanced degree strongly preferred.
* Minimum of 10 years of experience implementing enterprise systems, with minimum 3 years in architect roles with demonstrable growth in scope and complexity of the roles filled.
* Strong experience as a technical solutions architect delivering large-scale enterprise technology services that solve specific needs, with focus on composing these solutions from a variety of existing technology services and applications.
* Able to work across many technical domains to design the technology landscape to meet various business needs.
* Experience working with cloud-based Iaas, PaaS, and SaaS platforms in a variety of technical and business domains.
* Experience in agile software engineering methods, specifically providing architecture leadership as part of an agile organization, as well as evangelizing the principles behind Minimum Viable Architecture.
* Driven collaborative mindset that will push through barriers in the face of ambiguous situations.
* Continuous learner, able to adapt quickly to new technologies in a challenging and high-growth environment.
* Strong intellectual curiosity and desire for excellence around leading teams by example, building products, supporting development, and scaling a business.
* Tenacious problem solver able to make routine decisions as well as sound complex analysis in a fast-paced, technical environment.
* Must be able to work well autonomously and be a complete self-starter.
* Powerful communicator, in both verbal and written form, able to articulate concepts and ideas, break through barriers, engage people, and work effectively with others under pressure.
* Ability to quickly establish credibility with multiple business and technology stakeholders, including executives, engineers, architects, operations, security, etc.
* Capable of planning and executing on both short-term and long-term goals individually and with the team.
* Able to incorporate strategic objectives, commitments, and day-to-day tasks seamlessly.
* Experience in education, publishing, and/or digital media is highly desirable.
* WHO WE ARE
* Scholastic Corporation (NASDAQ: SCHL) is the world's largest publisher and distributor of children's books, a leading provider of core literacy curriculum and professional services, and a producer of educational and entertaining children's media.
* The Company creates quality books and ebooks, print and technology-based learning programs for pre
* K to grade 12, classroom magazines and other products and services that support children's learning both in school and at home.
* With operations in 14 international offices and exports to 165 countries, Scholastic makes quality, affordable books available to all children around the world through school-based book clubs and book fairs, classroom collections, school and public libraries, retail and online.
* True to its mission of 97 years to encourage the personal and intellectual growth of all children beginning with literacy, the Company has earned a reputation as a trusted partner to educators and families.
* Learn more at www.scholastic.com at http://www.scholastic.com/ .
* Some benefits that we offer:
* vested of 401(k) Retirement Plan after 5 years employment
* Up to 1M worth of supplemental Life Insurance
* Tuition Reimbursement
* Purchase Scholastic stock at a 15% discount
* Thank you for your consideration in choosing Scholastic

* Perform high-level analysis of customer business processes and requirements to support project evaluations with proposed solutions.
* Perform detailed analysis of customer business processes and requirements to produce solution specifications for complex and large projects.
* Define & architect the solution design.
* Expert experience in delivering projects in Agile/Scrum Methodology.
* Provide direction to development teams for solution realization and participate, as necessary, in coding, testing, documentation and maintenance support activities.
* Participate in project quality management tasks such as peer and quality reviews of specifications, design documents and code reviews.
* Work closely with project stakeholders to ensure successful project completion.
* Be a multiplier of your skills by actively mentoring other technical resources on your team.
* Continually enhance existing skills and seek new areas for personal development.
* Possess a business and results driven mindset to support SAP Innovative Business Solution’s Sales Organization in developing and driving new business

* Designs integration architectures, defines data mappings, develops data models, and consults with the infrastructure team on server and data storage services.
* Formulates and recommends standards for achieving maximum performance, compliance and efficiency of the Data Warehouse and Master Data Management systems.
* Ensures accuracy and integrity of service-oriented architecture through analysis, coding, writing clear documentation and problem resolution.
* Reviews issues and enhancements documented in the incident management and project management system for consideration of business needs.
* Maintains in-depth current knowledge of standards, guidelines, and industry trends for Data Warehouse Architecture as it relates to reporting and operations.
* Attends and interacts with user groups and researches new software vendors in the market.
* Fosters use of self-service analytics, data governance and visual discovery while guiding changes and limited reliance on manual data processes.
* Builds proof of concept and tangible results by sharing testing data.
* Participates in the planning for retirement of systems programs, and migration of systems infrastructure by providing current state and future state architectural diagrams.
* Works closely with Business Intelligence Manager to ensure prioritization of corporate and department objectives within the portfolio management system.
* Champions data quality, integrity and reliability throughout the department by designing data flow models and promoting development best practices with best of breed automation tools.
* Provides mentoring to Extract/Transform/Load (ETL) team members with technical expertise, complex systems, and/or programming knowledge.
* Provides on-the-job training for new or less experienced ETL team members.
* Provides technical training to external team members to encourage cross-department connections including the development and maintenance of standard operating procedures.
* Provides a methodology for the ongoing assessment of database performance and the identification of problem areas by holding regularly scheduled reviews of code and monitoring software.
* Develops business cases, impacts evaluation and ROI for department to get buy-in from senior management