29954 - RFR-DTS-047– Solution Architect

Office Location: Onsite & Remote#Business Days:Up to 24 MonthDuration: The duration of the engagement may be for up to a 24-month term. Due to the nature of projects, there may be exceptional circumstances where the total term may be extended beyond 24 months. The 24-month term is anticipated to start with a 6-month initial term followed by up to 18-month renewal(s) DescriptionSERVICES AND DELIVERABLES All Services will be performed on-site with primary location at 215 Garry Street, Winnipeg, in the province of Manitoba, regardless of the location of residence of the Proponent’s resource. The service location of the resource may change as a part of STATEMENT OF WORK between Proponent and Manitoba. Manitoba at its sole discretion may provide an option to work remotely. The remote working rate is the rate at which the proponent’s resource will work primarily remotely and called onsite if needed at Manitoba’s sole discretion. The onsite rate is the rate at which proponent’s resource will work primarily onsite as per the location defined in STATEMENT OF WORK and may work remotely if needed with prior written permission from Manitoba at its sole discretion. Standard working hours for the resource will be in accordance with Manitoba usual working hours of 8:30 am to 4:30 pm CST (7.25 hours per day), Monday to Friday. Manitoba offices are closed on all Manitoba statutory holidays, and these days will be unpaid. Manitoba at its sole discretion may decide that at certain times extended working hours are needed to meet project deadlines. But extended working hours are to cover exceptional circumstances and may not be available during the entire duration of the engagement with the proponent’s resource. Overtime work cannot be used and billed unless approved by Manitoba with an advanced written approval The Solution Architect will have experience providing technical leadership to ensure data integrity and consistency throughout a solution's life-cycle stages. Responsibilities

• The Solution Architect will be responsible for the application and data migration of legacy systems (including older versions of SAP) and the transition approach within the project.
• Definition and implementation of the strategy and solution to support the migration of legacy data into the SAP Application.
• Identification and qualification of source data to satisfy master and transactional data requirements for the SAP Application.
• Lead data assessment and mapping activities, and architect the underlying migration framework to extract, transform, validate, enrich and load the legacy source data.
• Execute technical leadership on the use of the technology platform and tools to perform the profiling and migration of legacy data.
• Planning and managing the efforts of technical developers
• Setting up a concept for migration (data and application) and the transition approach in regards to time, costs and risk
• Transition planning regarding technical and organizational aspects and coordination with stakeholders
• Setting up a data staging environment for data cleansing activities
• Leads the Data Management Workstream
• Creates Data Strategy, Data Cleansing, Data Migration/Conversion Strategy and Data Volume Management Strategy and all data plans.
• Working with the SI, Leads, and internal staff, defines the data migration strategy & data migration tools.
• Works with SI to develop ETL transformation/enrichment programs and schemas.
• Outlines data cleansing according to business logic in datasets provided by data extraction expert.
• Responsible for data migration verification and testing.
• Data Extraction - works with Leads and internal staff to extract data from legacy systems in the format provided by the SI.
• Ensures tools and processes developed by SI are implemented and maintained.
• Develops Data Volume strategy with SI (configures archiving objects, deletion jobs)
• Works with Business Data Owners (Data Custodians) to define dataset structure and its data usage in alignment with requirements from all business area functions.
• Master Data Management:
• Creates Master Data change processes and tools with business.
• Ensures Master Data Management satisfies business strategy.
• Provides support to data management improvement initiatives.
• Creates and enforces Master Data Management policies and procedures.
• Provides requirements to Master data governance strategy/plan.
• Defines policies and tools to be used for master data management processes.
• Accepts responsibility for master data operations from project team. Defines security standards and measures for data security

Skill Requirements/Qualifications A clean criminal record check status will be required at the proponent's expense prior to the successful Service Provider Resource(s) arriving onsite or working remotely. Maintaining a clean status is required throughout the Proponents contract. An enhanced background check, completed by Manitoba may be required on certain projects due to the confidentiality of the materials shared to the Proponent. If the proponent fails, they must rectify on their own cost and time. The following are minimum qualifications and/or experience for the delivery of the Services. The Resource must have the following minimum qualifications or experience:

• Bachelor's degree or Master degree in Computer Science, information technology, or related field;
• Minimum of ten (10) years of experience working in data migration projects in technically complex enterprise environments;
• Minimum 5+ years’ experience working in a Solution Architect role;
• Expert knowledge of Data Architecture and techniques, data management, data integration and data quality platforms and tools;
• Expert knowledge in at least one enterprise ETL tool;
• Ability to translate complex technical concepts into simple non-technical terms for various audiences;
• Ability to adapt to change in dynamically evolving situations;
• Ability to work in a team environment;
• Ability to lead a team of data analysts from various business areas;
• Experience with communicating and presenting to senior executive management;
• Minimum 5+ years’ experience developing and implementing standards, principles, guidelines, strategies and roadmaps for Master Data Management (MDM);
• Excellent customer service skills

Desired Experience And Skills

• Experience with establishing a data migration strategy related to SAP S4/HANA migration

Eligibility and Application Steps If you are enthusiastic about this exciting opportunity, we kindly request you to provide the following documents: hrsmss@smsoftconsulting.com Without mandatory documents, we cannot submit a candidate.

• Updated Resume in word format (Mandatory)
• Skills Matrix and References (Mandatory)
• Expected hourly rate (Mandatory)
• Visa Status (Mandatory)
• LinkedIn ID (Mandatory)

Please only apply if you meet the qualifications mentioned above. Feel free to share with your network or tag someone who fits for this role!If you have any questions or need further clarification, feel free to call or text at (647) 408-1348.