Maximo Solutions Architect

Location: Toronto, Ontario
Work arrangement: Hybrid, 2 to 3 days onsite per week
Hours: 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday
Estimated Duration: 12 Months
 

About the Role

Our client is undertaking an Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) implementation using IBM Maximo Application Suite (MAS) Manage and related modules to modernize and standardize asset and maintenance management processes across a large, asset intensive environment.

The initiative will support asset lifecycle management, work management, preventive maintenance, inventory, procurement and integration with enterprise systems. It also includes capabilities supporting condition monitoring, asset health and condition based maintenance.

The Maximo Solutions Architect will focus on functional analysis and delivery, owning requirements definition, business process analysis and functional configuration decisions. This individual will work directly with business stakeholders and technical teams to deliver functional specifications and configurations aligned with enterprise asset management standards.

Key Responsibilities

  1. Lead requirements workshops with subject matter experts and operational stakeholders.

  2. Elicit, document and validate functional requirements for MAS Manage and related modules.

  3. Analyze current business processes and design future state EAM processes.

  4. Conduct gap analyses between business requirements and MAS Manage capabilities, recommending configuration solutions.

  5. Translate requirements into functional specifications and configuration design documents.

  6. Collaborate with the MAS Technical Consultant / Configurator to ensure technical configurations align with business requirements.

  7. Support functional design and validation of MAS Health, Predict and ACM capabilities, including condition monitoring and condition based maintenance strategies.

  8. Maintain process flows, use cases, configuration registers and requirements traceability matrices.

  9. Support data migration planning, mapping, validation and reconciliation from a functional perspective.

  10. Develop test strategies, test cases and test scripts, and coordinate defect resolution with technical teams.

  11. Support user training planning and develop training materials and user guides.

  12. Conduct stakeholder walkthroughs and demonstrations.

  13. Provide go live, hypercare and ongoing functional support.

  14. Participate in project meetings, reporting and status updates.

Required Qualifications

  1. Minimum 5 years of hands on experience as a Maximo Functional Analyst working with IBM Maximo 7.6.1+, including recent MAS 8.x or 9.x delivery.

  2. Proven experience supporting MAS Manage implementations in a functional analyst capacity.

  3. Strong understanding of EAM business processes, including Work Orders, Preventive Maintenance, Assets, Locations, Inventory and Procurement.

  4. Demonstrated ability to facilitate requirements workshops, document business processes and translate operational needs into system configuration requirements.

  5. Experience producing functional specifications, gap analyses and configuration design documents.

  6. Experience supporting data migration planning, mapping, validation and reconciliation.

  7. Familiarity with MAS applications, domains, workflows, escalations and security groups sufficient to guide and validate technical decisions.

  8. Strong analytical, documentation, communication and problem solving skills.

  9. Ability to work independently and collaborate effectively with business stakeholders and technical teams.

Preferred Experience

  1. Experience within a large public sector or public transit environment.

  2. Experience with asset condition management capabilities, including condition monitoring, meter groups and condition based maintenance strategies.

Key Deliverables

  1. Requirements workshops and documented functional requirements.

  2. Configuration documentation and requirements traceability matrices.

  3. Current state and future state process maps.

  4. Gap analyses and functional recommendations.

  5. ACM functional designs and condition based maintenance strategy documentation.

  6. Data mapping and migration validation documentation.

  7. Test strategies, test cases and test scripts.

  8. Defect tracking and resolution documentation.

  9. Training materials, user guides and stakeholder demonstrations.

  10. Sustainment and hypercare support documentation.