Ifs Cloud Business Architect

Deloitte Deloitte · Consulting

This role is for an IFS Cloud Business Architect within Deloitte's AI & Engineering team, focusing on transforming technology platforms and driving innovation for clients in the Power & Utilities sector. The architect will translate business objectives into functional designs for IFS Cloud capabilities, lead workshops, define requirements, and manage backlog items. The role requires experience with enterprise asset management solutions, functional design documentation, and specifying integration requirements.

What you'd actually do

  1. Translating business objectives and utility operating requirements into delivery-ready requirements and functional designs for IFS Cloud Enterprise Asset Management and Work Management capabilities
  2. Partnering with business subject matter specialists and technical delivery teams to define user outcomes, develop backlog items, and produce Functional Design Documents covering data, integrations, controls, and user experience
  3. Leading functional workshops to document business processes, pain points, desired outcomes, assumptions, dependencies, and non-functional requirements across asset, work, inspection, measurement, location, and materials processes
  4. Converting requirements into epics, features, user stories, and acceptance criteria in Azure DevOps (ADO) or similar tools, with traceability to process steps and support for build and test execution
  5. Defining data and integration requirements for IFS Cloud, facilitating design playbacks, maintaining design decisions, and supporting stakeholder communication across build, testing, change management, and client presentations

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's degree
  • 5+ years of experience working with utility clients or within the utilities sector, including 5+ years in asset management, asset performance management, or work management in the gas and electric utility industry
  • Experience implementing Enterprise Asset Management solutions such as IFS, including IFS Cloud
  • 3+ years of technical product design experience in enterprise platforms, including writing user stories, acceptance criteria, and functional design documentation, and proficiency with Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, and Microsoft Excel
  • 2+ years of experience specifying integration requirements using application programming interfaces (APIs), events, or batch, including field mapping, system-of-record alignment, latency expectations, and error handling
  • Ability to travel 50%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve.
  • Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.

Nice to have

  • Advanced degree
  • 2+ years of experience with IFS Cloud
  • IFS certifications
  • Experience using Azure DevOps (ADO), Jira, or similar backlog management tools
  • Experience in consulting delivery for utility clients

What the JD emphasized

  • 5+ years of experience working with utility clients or within the utilities sector, including 5+ years in asset management, asset performance management, or work management in the gas and electric utility industry
  • Experience implementing Enterprise Asset Management solutions such as IFS, including IFS Cloud
  • 3+ years of technical product design experience in enterprise platforms, including writing user stories, acceptance criteria, and functional design documentation, and proficiency with Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, and Microsoft Excel
  • 2+ years of experience specifying integration requirements using application programming interfaces (APIs), events, or batch, including field mapping, system-of-record alignment, latency expectations, and error handling