Solution Architect

**Location**: Singapore

**Salary**: Open

**Industry**: Manufacturing, Engineering & Industrial, IT & Digital Media

**Sub-industry**: Packaging/Printing, Cloud/Virtualization

**Function**: Technology
**Job Description**:
**The Organization**:
The organization is a global company with presence in all five continents, with its aim to be the world's leading provider of products and services to support optimization of business processes through digital transformation. Established more than 80 years ago in Japan, as of today they have a global workforce of more than 35,000 employees working effectively to innovate the modern workplace we are all now in. Fast forward as of today, the business is at the forefront in several R&D domain with proprietary technologies that we are all dependent on a daily basis.

Their first office presence in Singapore was established more than 50 years ago, bringing innovation and changes to the workplace landscape. Standing strong with 600 employees in Singapore, the business is geared to continuously support digital transformation.

**The Responsibilities**:
**Your responsibility will include but not limited to**:

- Follow the prescribed solution architecture process (such as ensuring that relevant reviews, approvals, and checkpoints are completed with the appropriate deal governance stakeholders)
- Collaborates with Sales and Bid Managers during the pre-sales/solutioning/tender stage to support the creation and submission of proposals and bids
- Serves as the Solution Design Authority. You are to assume responsibility for all elements involved in solution design, including participation in qualification and business approval meetings and checkpoints
- Responsible for developing clear, financially viable, and feasible solutions
- Establishes the strategy for creating solutions, managing the scope and activities of the solution design team to ensure a reasonable cost structure
- Presenting the entire solution to a customer or partner in both technical and business terms, effectively outlining the advantages, assumptions, and potential risks involved
- Pinpointing customer needs for developing a solution by fostering robust partnerships with key stakeholders within the team, customer organization, and collaborators
- Devises effective solutions and has the ability to supervise various experts, including third-party vendors, who contribute to the design and execution of the solution
- Keeping abreast of company's offering and services, as well as the products and solutions
- Staying up-to-date with the latest advancements in technology and services in the Customer Communication Management, multi-channel communications, and transactional print industries

**The Requirements**:

- Bachelor's Degree (in Computer Science is an advantage)
- Familiarity and expertise in offering or providing outsourced print and document management services, including transactional printing, production workflow automation, mail management, and automation, as well as multi-channel communication solutions
- Experience working in regional or global teams structure to support regional-wide contracts & projects
- Actively seeks cooperation with stakeholders and is a valuable member of a team
- Capable of earning trust and exerting influence
- Proficient in explaining the fundamentals of data protection and privacy regulations, including GDPR, and showcasing how they affect the design of solutions
- Knowledgeable about the principles of developing commercial business cases and managing profit and loss (P&L)
- Possesses effective written and verbal communication skills, able to articulate the technical aspects and business advantages of proposed solutions
- Skilled in using MS-Office, especially advanced Excel, and PowerPoint
- Self-motivated and able to take initiative

What's in it?
- A truly multinational company which creates positive impacts to our society
- A global company that values open door policy, diversity, and reward for innovations
- Committed on their presence in Singapore for the future