Supply Chain IT Solution Architect
Job Summary
The position of Solution Architect at one of our client organization demonstrates expertise by analyzing business problems, articulating technology capabilities, and weaving the best options together into cohesive solutions that integrate into the customer’s broader technology architecture. Utilizing a palette of existing software frameworks, custom, and best-of-breed systems, and hybrid cloud infrastructure, there will be an opportunity to create solutions that add business value and create competitive advantage for the customer. This position is expected to push the limits of our existing architecture and, if new capabilities are needed, help the customer to close the gap.
Responsibilities
Lead end-to-end IT solution design for supply chain initiatives, decomposing business problems into scalable system designs and guiding solutions from concept to go-live and steady state.
Define and maintain the system architecture vision, roadmap, reference architecture, standards, governance, stage gates, and reusable design patterns. Facilitate architecture design reviews and build-vs-buy decisions.
Architect system solutions across multiple platforms (WMS, WCS, WES, TMS, planning, inventory fulfillment, and custom IBM iSeries/AS400 applications). Own integration patterns across IBM iSeries, WMS, WCS, WES, ERP, TMS, SAP, S4/HANA, ABTP, Google Cloud, IBM Sterling Integrator, EDI APIs, middleware, event messaging, file exchange, and partner connectivity.
Provide architectural leadership for warehouse automation and robotics, including ASRS, AMR, PLC, Fortna AutoStore, Exacta Savoye iPack, Cubiscan Plus One, Osaro, and related material handling solutions. Ensure reliable data flow across systems, maintain integration frameworks, documentation, data dictionaries, and traceability standards.
Drive reliability, quality, and operational readiness environment strategy, testing assets, observability, SRE practices, security controls, DR runbooks, release calendars, incident/problem management, and root cause remediation. Partner with Industrial Engineering, Operations, Maintenance, IT Operations, IT Security, Data, Finance, vendors, communicate effectively with warehouse teams, technical teams, and executives.
Identify opportunities for automation, analytics, AIML, workflow improvement, and technical debt reduction while ensuring compliance, security, and change management controls. Foster customer culture, mentor analysts, developers, architects, share current technology trends, and perform additional duties or special projects as assigned.
Qualifications
NA
Skills
- ANSI X12
- API gateways
- APIs
- AIML
- warehouse automation
- batch processing
- Bitbucket
- COBOL
- cloud
- cloud integration
- Computer Science Engineering
- CICD
- IT Security
- DB2 SQL
- Data dictionaries
- Data flow
- Data streaming
- distributed systems
- enterprise systems
- XML
- SFTP
- GitHub
- Google Cloud
- hybrid cloud infrastructure
- hybrid cloud
- IBM Sterling
- IBM iSeries
- IT experience
- integration frameworks
- Java
- Javascript
- Jenkins
- load balancing
- PowerPoint
- Visio
- middleware
- Office365
- Python
- query languages
- message queuing
- SAP
- Ariba
- ServiceNow
- SRE practices
- design patterns
- system architecture
- technical debt
- current technology trends
- communicate effectively
- Leadership
- resilient
- reliability
- architecture
- automation
- analyzing business
- workflow improvement
- change management
- data models
- design experience
- architectural leadership
- supply chain distribution
- ERP
- governance
- material handling
- Industrial Engineering
- Finance
- manufacturing technologies
- mentor
- modeling
- Operations Maintenance
- operational readiness
- reference architecture
- resource scheduling
- robotics
- security controls
- internal and external stakeholders
- inventory
- warehouse
- supply chain
- system designs
- teaching
- technology architecture
- testing
- business value
- warehouse logistics
- weaving
Equal Opportunity Employer
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Benefits
- medical
- prescription
- dental
- vision
- AD&D
- life insurance
- short-term disability
- 401K plan