IFS Solution Architect (Remote) at Attalon, Inc.
United States
$146.175k - $219.263k
<div><div><p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:115%;font-size:16px;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;' data-pasted="true"><strong><span style="font-size: 14px;">Attalon</span></strong><span style="font-size: 14px;"> is a leading technology partner to the global aerospace and defense industry, specializing in the physics of light and heat. With over 500 employees in the U.S., Attalon engineers critical optical, laser, and coating technologies that enable systems to see farther, target faster, and survive the harshest environments. From high-energy directed laser systems to satellite optics and hypersonic thermal protection, Attalon equips the warfighter with the advantage of precision.</span></p><p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:115%;font-size:16px;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;'><span style="font-size: 14px;">We are seeking an experienced <strong>IFS Solution Architect</strong> to serve as the strategic custodian of our enterprise IFS architecture across Apps 10 and IFS Cloud. This role owns solution design authority, governs platform change through the CAB, maintains the IFS roadmap and CUI pipeline, ensures regulatory alignment (CMMC, ITAR, DCAA), and leads the IFS Centre of Excellence (CoE). The CoE includes functional leads and future SMEs who maintain their operational reporting lines but hold dotted-line accountability for standards, governance, and platform maturity.</span></p><p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:115%;font-size:16px;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;'><span style="font-size: 14px;">This is a senior leadership role with broad influence across enterprise technology decisions, ERP-enabled transformation, and regulated operations, and is critical in ensuring a stable, scalable, secure, and future-ready IFS platform that supports business growth and regulatory requirements. <strong>This role is a remote position with occasional travel (as required)</strong></span></p><p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:115%;font-size:16px;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;'><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Key Responsibilities</strong></span></p><p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:115%;font-size:16px;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;'><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Enterprise Scope & Impact</strong></span></p><ul style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-top:0in;" type="disc"><li style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 14px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Own the long-term architectural direction for the enterprise-wide IFS platform, ensuring it supports multi-site operations, regulated business environments, and future organizational growth.</li><li style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 14px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Shape and influence ERP-enabled transformation initiatives by providing architectural leadership, risk insight, and strategic alignment to business and technology objectives.</li><li style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 14px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Serve as a key contributor in enabling the successful delivery of agreed IT Value Creation Plans (VCPs) related to IFS, translating business value targets into executable architectural strategies and ensuring feasibility, compliance, and sustained operational benefit.</li><li style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 14px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Drive maturity of the IFS Centre of Excellence (CoE), developing functional leads and SMEs into a high-performance capability that promotes consistent solution design, knowledge management, and ongoing platform evolution.</li><li style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 14px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Partner with senior leaders across IT, Operations, Finance, and Compliance to ensure ERP strategy, roadmap decisions, and enterprise investment align with long-term value creation and regulatory requirements.</li><li style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 14px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Evaluate and influence major architectural investment decisions, including commercial commitments, Cloud roadmap adoption, integration strategy, and cross-platform dependencies.</li><li style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 14px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Own architectural risk management for the IFS landscape, ensuring proactive identification and mitigation of systemic or regulatory risks</li></ul><p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:115%;font-size:16px;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;'><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>IFS Architecture – Primary Responsibilities</strong></span></p><ul style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-top:0in;" type="disc"><li style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 14px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Own and maintain the enterprise IFS architecture across Apps 10 and IFS Cloud.</li><li style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 14px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Act as design authority for configurations, customizations, integrations, reports, and data model extensions.</li><li style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 14px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Define architectural principles, integration standards, and design patterns to ensure consistency and upgradeability.</li><li style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 14px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Ensure solutions are secure, scalable, and aligned with long-term roadmap and regulatory needs.</li></ul><p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:115%;font-size:16px;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;'><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Governance & CAB Management</strong></span></p><ul style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-top:0in;" type="disc"><li style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 14px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Govern and chair the IFS Change Advisory Board (CAB).</li><li style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 14px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Review and approve design proposals and technical changes across functional and technical teams.</li><li style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 14px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Manage architectural approvals, escalate risks, and ensure robust dependency and release governance.</li></ul><p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:115%;font-size:16px;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;'><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>IFS Centre of Excellence Leadership</strong></span></p><ul style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-top:0in;" type="disc"><li style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 14px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Lead the IFS CoE as the central forum for platform governance, standards, and best practices.</li><li style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 14px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Provide dotted-line leadership to functional leads and SMEs supporting IFS Cloud and BAU operations.</li><li style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 14px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Define CoE operating rhythms, documentation requirements, training standards, and maturity goals.</li><li style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 14px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Implement and govern ClickLearn for process documentation, training content, and guided learning.</li><li style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 14px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Ensure knowledge assets are accurate, maintained, version-controlled, and aligned with approved business processes.</li><li style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 14px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Promote consistent design decisions and shared accountability for the ERP platform.</li></ul><p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:115%;font-size:16px;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;'><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Roadmap & CUI Pipeline Management</strong></span></p><ul style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-top:0in;" type="disc"><li style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 14px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Own the multi-year IFS platform roadmap, including Cloud evolution, major releases, and structural improvements.</li><li style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 14px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Govern and prioritize the Continuous Improvement Update (CUI) pipeline.</li><li style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 14px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Work with business stakeholders to evaluate and sequence roadmap initiatives.</li><li style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 14px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Serve as primary liaison to the IFS account manager for licensing, renewals, commercial alignment, integrations, and future product capabilities.</li><li style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 14px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Ensure license entitlements and commercial agreements align with architectural strategy.</li></ul><p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:115%;font-size:16px;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;'><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Regulatory & Security Alignment</strong></span></p><ul style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-top:0in;" type="disc"><li style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 14px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Architect solutions that meet CMMC, ITAR, DCAA, and other regulatory frameworks.</li><li style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 14px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Partner with InfoSec and Compliance teams to ensure secure design, traceability, audit readiness, and segregation-of-duties standards.</li><li style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 14px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Govern access models, permissions, and security controls across the IFS landscape.</li></ul><p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:115%;font-size:16px;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;'><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Delivery Oversight & Collaboration</strong></span></p><ul style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-top:0in;" type="disc"><li style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 14px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Provide architectural guidance to IFS developers, functional consultants, SMEs, and third-party partners.</li><li style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 14px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Validate design concepts before development to ensure alignment with standards and patterns.</li><li style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 14px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Support the IFS Cloud implementation through solution design participation, integration oversight, testing direction, and quality assurance.</li><li style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 14px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Align business processes and functional designs with architectural principles.</li></ul><p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:115%;font-size:16px;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;'><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Platform Health & Lifecycle Management</strong></span></p><ul style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-top:0in;" type="disc"><li style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 14px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Define and govern environment strategy across DEV/TEST/UAT/STAGE/PROD, including refresh cycles and release cadence.</li><li style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 14px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Ensure system performance, stability, scalability, and availability.</li><li style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 14px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Govern performance testing standards, load testing practices, and environment benchmarking.</li><li style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 14px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Oversee permission model governance, SoD alignment, and periodic security review.</li><li style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 14px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Lead platform optimization initiatives, tuning activities, and lifecycle improvements.</li><li style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 14px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Collaborate with the Infrastructure team on environment sizing, capacity planning, performance requirements, and alignment between Cloud architecture and underlying infrastructure components.</li></ul><p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:115%;font-size:16px;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;'><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Ways of Working</strong></span></p><ul style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-top:0in;" type="disc"><li style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 14px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Work cross-functionally with business stakeholders, project teams, functional leads, and vendors.</li><li style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 14px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Participate in change control, release management, and production deployment.</li><li style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 14px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Maintain structured architectural documentation, decision logs, and design standards.</li><li style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 14px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Escalate architectural risks, constraints, and compliance gaps promptly.</li></ul><p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:115%;font-size:16px;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;'><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong> </strong></span></p><p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:115%;font-size:16px;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;'><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Required Experience</strong></span></p><ul style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-top:0in;" type="disc"><li style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 14px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Extensive experience architecting IFS Apps 10 and/or IFS Cloud.</li><li style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 14px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Prior experience as design authority or solution architect in ERP transformation programs.</li><li style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 14px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Deep knowledge of IFS technical layers including projections, APIs, IFS Connect, Aurena, lobbies, and data models.</li><li style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 14px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Strong expertise in integration patterns (REST, SOAP, middleware, event-based).</li><li style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 14px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Experience contributing to or leading ERP Centres of Excellence.</li><li style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 14px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Familiarity with CMMC, ITAR, DCAA, and regulated industries (A&D, manufacturing).</li><li style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 14px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Strong Oracle/SQL/PLSQL capability.</li><li style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 14px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Excellent communication and stakeholder influence skills.<span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong> </strong></span></li></ul><p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:115%;font-size:16px;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;'><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Desirable Skills</strong></span></p><ul style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-top:0in;" type="disc"><li style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 14px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Experience with MES platforms and ERP/MES integration models.</li><li style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 14px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Familiarity with Azure, cloud-native patterns, or microservices.</li><li style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 14px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Experience supporting legacy-to-cloud transitions.</li><li style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 14px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Background in system migration, decommissioning, or multi-environment operations.</li></ul><p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:115%;font-size:16px;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;'><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Personal Attributes</strong></span></p><ul style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-top:0in;" type="disc"><li style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 14px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Strategic thinker with strong architectural discipline.</li><li style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 14px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Governance-oriented with high judgment and decision capability.</li><li style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 14px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Clear communicator able to translate complex topics to business and technical audiences.</li><li style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 14px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Organized, structured, and capable of managing multiple priorities.</li><li style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 14px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Collaborative and pragmatic, balancing</li></ul><p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:115%;font-size:16px;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;'><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></p><p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:115%;font-size:16px;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;'><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Equal Opportunity Employer Statement</strong></span></p><p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:115%;font-size:16px;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;'><span style="font-size: 14px;"><em>Attalon, Inc. is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.</em></span></p><p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:115%;font-size:16px;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;'><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Export Control Compliance</strong></span></p><p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:115%;font-size:16px;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;'><em><span style="font-size: 14px;">This role involves access to technology, materials, software, or hardware subject to U.S. export control laws. Therefore, to be considered, candidates must be classified as a “U.S. Person” under applicable regulations or be eligible for authorization under a U.S. government export license.</span></em></p><p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:115%;font-size:16px;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;'><br></p></div></div>
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