Key Responsibilities:
- Serve as the primary technical lead and internal subject matter expert for IFS Cloud.
- Provide technical leadership throughout implementation, go-live, stabilization, and ongoing support.
- Own IFS technical architecture, environment strategy, integrations, and development standards.
- Review and approve technical solutions proposed by implementation partners and vendors.
- Design and support integrations between IFS and other enterprise systems.
- Establish standards for configurations, reports, integrations, and customizations.
- Provide technical oversight for data migration, interfaces, and system conversions.
- Lead IFS security design, permission structures, access controls, and segregation-of-duties requirements.
- Oversee release management, upgrades, testing, and production deployments.
- Troubleshoot complex application, integration, data, and performance issues.
- Establish technical documentation, support procedures, governance, and change-management standards.
- Partner with business process owners to translate functional requirements into sustainable technical solutions.
- Manage technical relationships with IFS, implementation partners, and external consultants.
- Mentor and provide technical direction to IFS administrators, developers, and other enterprise application resources.
- Identify opportunities to reduce unnecessary customization and improve automation, scalability, and maintainability.
Qualifications:
- 7+ years of ERP technical experience, with significant experience supporting enterprise applications.
- 3+ years of hands-on experience with IFS Applications or IFS Cloud strongly preferred.
- Experience participating in or leading a full lifecycle ERP implementation or major upgrade.
- Strong knowledge of ERP integrations, APIs, data migration, security, environments, and release management.
- Experience with SQL, REST APIs, middleware, or related integration technologies.
- Understanding of Manufacturing, Finance, Procurement, Supply Chain, or related ERP business processes.
- Strong troubleshooting, architecture, documentation, and vendor-management skills.
- Ability to communicate effectively with technical teams, business users, senior leadership, and external partners.