Professional Services - Madrid, Spain - Full Time: The Business Consultant will be responsible for delivering Centric 8 Agile deployment projects on-time, per schedule, and per responsible technical and business goals of the company (e.g., out-of-the-box - OOTB configurations, customer business process mapping, and best practice advocacy).
Key Responsibilities Provide technical leadership and support to pre-sales and implementation teams in designing and delivering Centric 8 Solutions focused on the Retail, Apparel & Footwear Industry and fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) and High-Fashion market. Manage deployment projects per Centric's Agile deployment methodology, delivering customer solution model per out-of-the-box Centric 8 (PLM) use cases and configuration points. Conduct customer business process analysis, information modeling, mapping to Centric 8 configurations and interface control definitions with related systems to be integrated, and data and process conversion from legacy PDM systems. Provide customer guidance on process-system alignment practices, desktop procedures, process-system validation, training, and ongoing customer care. Specialist skills in system integration, IT tuning and optimization, and installation in enterprise environments. Acquire and disseminate FMCG domain and system integration best practices and provide customer scenario details to guide product development, QA, and Customer Support groups as needed. Key Activities Coordinate and collaborate with the customer implementation team and Centric teams to ensure a successful and referenceable delivery. Analyze customer business process requirements as a basis to propose Centric 8 (OOTB) Solutions. Consult, deploy, tune, configure, optimize, and install Centric software stack within the customer's IT environment, with a focus on enterprise high availability and system integration dimensions. Produce written specifications (i.e., UML models, Centric 8 configurations) to capture business process requirements for proposed solutions and configuration activities. Analyze requirements and design solutions to address customer business scenarios within the product scope. Ensure clear understanding of customer's technology requirements; provide support for Proposal and Project teams, and provide technical leadership and vision to win and deliver large-scale, complex solutions. Develop and document Data/Object Model to meet customers' requirements. Identify, delegate, and execute project tasks including installing and configuring software, deployment training, data migration, and deployment support. Mentor other consultants during the delivery of Centric Software based solutions. Provide input into future solution functionality, implementation methodology, and configuration standards. Ensure that quality software engineering processes and Agile practices are followed. Minimum Requirements Degree holder in a Computing related discipline such as Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Information Technology, or other Engineering disciplines. Degree in Garment and Fashion related studies may be considered. System modeling skills (preferably UML). Project Management certification desirable (not compulsory). Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and business audiences. Years of experience: 5+ years. Strong consulting background and customer-facing skills and experience with Project Management. Domain knowledge in one or more of the following areas: Apparel, Footwear, Fashion, Retail, Manufacturing, Food and Beverage, Beauty. System Implementation and technology experience. Product life cycle (PLM) understanding. Understanding the system implementation process. Experience in Agile deployment methodology desirable. Understanding of infrastructure and cloud computing platforms (e.g., AWS) and familiarity with SaaS model. Familiar with system modeling techniques (familiarity with UML an added advantage). Technical skills for software package configurations, such as: Experience in pseudo-code/regular expression. Experience in SQL (e.g., Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL). Experience in XML and JavaScript / Typescript and REST API an added advantage. Technical aptitude and proven self-learning skills if some of the above skills are not present and desire to sharpen technical skill sets. Centric Software provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, color, age, religion, protected veteran or disability status, or genetic information.
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