[Hiring] Solution Lead @Fortive

Role Description

As a member of the Account Services Team, the Solution Lead is responsible for providing architectural leadership in the solution design and implementation of Intelex software. The Solution Lead plays a key role in providing technical leadership in the review and approval of services estimates and the delivery of solution designs for Global Services engagements.

• Facilitates project and client transition from Sales to Global Services for new accounts or engagements.
• Translates client requirements into an Intelex solution design, including workflow and configuration architecture, that meets client’s overall business objectives while considering cost and timeline targets.
• Conducts careful and timely reviews of all Services estimates and implementation plans to ensure accuracy and reduce non-billable service time.
• Attends Implementation Design Workshops to oversee analysis and documentation of business and interface requirements.
• Ensures architectural consistency and coherence between technical and business processes through systems analysis and design, system modelling, performance modelling, integration planning, and technology and component selection.
• Leads the creation/maintenance of configuration guidelines and best practices to ensure efficient, reusable configuration detail is produced by the team and measured through regular reviews.
• Conducts technical risk assessments through experience, analysis, prototyping, and research.
• Provides guidance, training, and mentorship to junior level consultants.
• Works closely with a Project Manager to assess and manage risk, maintain proper resource levels on the project team, and identify and escalate issues.
• Works with other Solution Architects in Global Services to ensure knowledge sharing across project teams and technical resources.
• Participates in the development and contributes to the continuous progress of Intelex methodology, knowledge-based team rooms, and other key documentation artifacts.
• Assists the Product Management organization with execution of product management processes and product development.
• Provides ongoing feedback on the process improvement of the review, preparation, and confirmation of service estimates.
• Collaborates with leadership to address new project opportunities.
• Shares in the development and contributes to the continuous progress of Intelex methodology, knowledge-based team rooms, and other key documentation.
• Travels to client locations within Canada, the United States, and occasional international travel required. Expected travel is 10%-40%.

Qualifications

• Strong interpersonal skills with an ability to communicate at a high level with various internal and external parties such as clients, vendors, employees, and executives.
• Strong written and verbal skills; including the ability to present technical issues to a non-technical audience.
• Strong understanding of the software implementation project lifecycle.
• Results driven with a proven ability to project a positive sales attitude.
• Ability to understand business needs in order to align the business need into system capabilities.
• A great teammate, constantly considering ways to improve performance and support others to ensure the team’s overall success.
• An innovator with an inquisitive mind, actively seeking new ways of working through experimentation to solve problems.

Requirements

• Strong understanding of application architecture and design principles.
• Solid understanding of web-based application architectures.
• Knowledge of object-oriented design principles.
• Software and integration configuration experience.
• Ability to design software systems at an abstract/conceptual level as well as at a detailed level.

Experience

• Experience implementing enterprise-wide, multi-site software solutions.
• Demonstrated history of developing novel configuration approaches that are scalable and repeatable.
• Experience in coaching team members to further their technical understanding and provide guidance on standard methodology.
• Excellent presentation skills, with experience delivering business and project solution topics to audiences of different roles including customers from technical experts to director level.

Education

• Bachelor’s Degree or College Diploma in Computer Science/Information Systems, or equivalent experience.

Company Description

Fortive’s essential technology makes the world stronger, safer, and smarter. We accelerate transformation across a broad range of applications including environmental, health and safety compliance, industrial condition monitoring, next-generation product design, and healthcare safety solutions.

We are a global industrial technology innovator with a startup spirit. Our forward-looking companies lead the way in software-powered workflow solutions, data-driven intelligence, AI-powered automation, and other disruptive technologies.

We’re a diverse team 18,000 strong, united by a dynamic, inclusive culture and energized by limitless learning and growth.