Senior Technical Architect ( WMS )

Overview:

Core responsibilities focus your efforts as the technical lead for Blue Yonder Warehouse Management Solution implementations for customers across the Americas region.

In this role, you will design best-in-class solutions using a suite of products in the Warehouse Management space, as well as being on the leading edge with our latest product innovations.

You will be the technical liaison across of key stakeholders, including key customer contacts, Project Managers, Solution Architects, Technical/Business Consultants, and 3rd Party Consultants, to drive the timely and successful delivery of the final solution.

What you’ll do

Drive the design, optimization, and implementation of Blue Yonder Warehouse Management software solutions for customers, utilizing industry best practices and process methodologies

Apply domain knowledge to fully understand and identify how the Blue Yonder solutions can be configured and delivered to best meet customer requirements/business processes, with regarding

Lead Technical and integration design to ensure clear construct and validation tasks and timeline

Lead integration design with automation vendors

Conduct and/or guide system integration, user acceptance testing and deployment phases of the project to ensure a seamless transition to our steady state/support associates

Sustain the balance between project scope, timeline, and requirements to ensure successful time to value and definitive customer satisfaction

Assess business needs that fall outside the standard solution and/or scope, and assess integration complexity, architecture constraints and/or product roadmaps

Recognize and highlight incremental revenue opportunities with existing customers/projects

Identify product issues analyze root cause, provide workarounds and provide inputs to product team on problem areas

Communicate business cases to PMG and PD regarding customer specific needs related to product functionality and enhancements

What we are looking for

Industry and Product Experience:

Minimum 5 years of specific experience working within Blue Yoder’s Warehouse Management Systems either as a customer of Blue Yonder or as a consultant implementing Blue Yonder solutions for customers

Experience in end to end WMS deployment from Blue printing/design to transition to support for varied customers / industries

Additionally relevant solutions consulting and implementation experience with other leading supply chain planning solutions such as HighJump, Manhattan or SAP is a plus

Current or prior experience working in a management consulting organization or Supply Chain Center preferred

Experience in integrating ERP/Host systems with Blue Yonder’s Warehouse Management Systems

Experience with using / Testing APIs

Experience in working with Native SaaS WMS solutions

Skills:

Strong technical analysis skills, Technical design, Integration with HOST/ERP systems , Integration with Automation systems, awareness of tactical planning on overall supply chain required

Ability to prepare and deliver presentations for user, management, and executive level audiences. Strong verbal, written and interpersonal skills required

Ability to plan technical activities of WMS deployment, Track issues through RAID log and provide tasks to junior resources

experience with Relational databases (SQL Server/Oracle), SQL, Understanding Native SaaS solutions deployed on Azure, Python, JAVA /J2EE, MOCA

RESTful Web Services, API, JSON and testing APIs with Postman

Education:

Advanced degree in Computer Science, Supply Chain, Information Systems or equivalent degree

Bachelor’s degree and relevant industry experience may be considered in lieu of advanced degree

Travel is expected within the US at 50% - 75%