System Architect

Are you the super glue between our functional and technical employees? Ensure the quality of our WMS implementations as a technical lead in our project team. Sounds interesting? Let's get introduced!
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As a system architect you are responsible for the technical part of a Warehouse Management System (WMS) implementation. You are involved from the sales phase until and including the delivery of the solution to the customer. During this whole process you will cooperate with the lead application consultant within the project team, the project manager and the developers. Together with the lead application consultant and the developers you are responsible for the functional and technical quality of the delivery.

You align with the customer, document and follow up on the following topics:

• Integration of various systems including, but not limited to ERP/TMS systems.
• Integration and optimal steering of warehouse automation components like conveyor systems, crane systems, pick stations, palletizers, de-palletizers, sorting machines, picking robots, packing robots.
• Sizing and validate setup of the IT landscape from a WMS application perspective based on a ‘on premise’ or ‘cloud based’ strategy. This includes topics like server sizing, operating system requirements, database requirements, network requirements, LAN, mobile equipment, printers, scanners, voice equipment and other hardware components that are integrated with the WMS system.

Our solutions are based on the following techniques and tooling: C / C++ / C# / .NET, XML/XSL, JSON, SQL (both on Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle), GIT/Gerrit.

This role entails the following responsibilities:

• Make use of the standard product as much as possible;
• Review and challenge functional designs for customer specific developments;
• Make estimations for customer specific developments;
• Write technical designs for developments;
• Steer and coach developers during the development process;
• Execute code reviews to guard the quality of coding and to validate the correct interpretation of the technical designs;
• Review test cases defined by application consultants for end-to-end tests, guarding that from a technical perspective all flows and exceptions are covered by the test cases.

Each project is different and refreshing. Be it a manual warehouse, full of automation, single or multi-site or a combination of it all. It is great to see the progress in a project, from the very first meeting to a fully working warehouse. Along the way there are always fun new challenges to solve and so much that you can learn together with your team and the customer.

Cyriel Lenting, Software Architect Consafe Logistics

What makes you a great candidate?
We are you looking for an ambitious technical/functional IT professional. A perfect candidate enjoys dynamic and challenging environments, has an ability to solve complex customer problems and is interested to work with advanced IT systems and applications.

You recognize yourself in our core behaviors ‘Together we get there’, ‘Strive for greatness’ and ‘Be accountable and act’. Furthermore, the ideal candidate would have:

• A minimum of 3 years relevant working experience, preferably working with Supply Chain Management solutions
• Analytical mindset and problem-solving skills
• The ability to quickly switch from helicopter view to low level details (back and forth) and this for multiple projects in parallel
• Great communication skills with the ability to adjust your communication to the type of stakeholder (in- and external)
• The ability to quickly switch between helicopter view and low-level details for multiple projects in parallel
• Fluent in English. Dutch is preferred but not essential

What we offer our co-workers
Professional growth: We are on an exciting growth journey, so your potential to have an impact and build your career within the organization is remarkable. We support your work-life balance and develop your competence according to your individual goals and needs.

Inspiring business environment: You will have the opportunity to work together with prominent international brands, travel, gain experience from various industries, and drive the evolution of state-of-the-art WMS solutions for the future.

A strong community: At Consafe Logistics, we live by our three core behaviors, Together We Get There, Be Accountable and Act and Strive for Greatness. We have an open and inclusive company culture, where we always find occasions to celebrate and have fun together.

This role comes with a competitive base salary and amongst others:

• a lease car;
• company mobile phone and laptop;
• 8% holiday pay and 25 holiday days on an annual basis;
• Vitalilty budget and working from home allowance;
• A bonus based on individual performance

Who we are
Consafe Logistics is the leading European supplier of warehouse management solutions. We deliver reliable, flexible and smart solutions to create competitive advantages for our customers worldwide. With our extensive warehouse knowledge and through co-creation, we deliver sustainable solutions that fit every level of complexity and volume in the warehouse.

We’ve been in the business for more than 40 years, and we still love it! We also know that we would be nothing without our talented co-workers, so we continuously strive to provide them with an attractive workplace with long-term development and career opportunities. Learn more about us here.