- Responsible for the application and the future functional development
- Represent Application team at the technology Governance meetings
- Design, develop and maintain the product based future applications state, standards and group wide governance ensuring systems are fully aligned to customer and operational requirements
- Ensure User Acceptance Testing and end user training are completed for all application changes
- Provide advice and consultancy to the business about the operating model, and to further develop and lever this through opportunities you will either be alerted to or create
- Lead and develop the Applications capability across the business, establishing a baseline organisational design required for each functional area of the business to take responsibility for the ownership and development of capabilities within each platform
- Advise and recommend on upgrading existing systems and installing new new software to make sure there are no issues
- Engage technology and Information Security resource as required to ensure alignment to IT strategy, architecture, principles and safe service introduction of applications
- Manage risks and issues associated with the application landscape and escalate where necessary
- High technical understanding of IT systems and interface methods
- Strong Planning/Project Management skills
- WMS experience would be ideal (Manhattan, PKMS, Microlise, Blue Yonder)
- Ability to People Manage to assist in the development of a team
- Previous experience in a Solution Architect role