Technical Architect

Key Responsibilities

• Lead Blue Yonder WMS solution architecture, design, and implementation for complex warehouse and distribution environments.

• Conduct discovery workshops with business stakeholders to understand warehouse processes, pain points, and transformation requirements.

• Translate business requirements into functional and technical solution designs aligned with Blue Yonder capabilities and best practices.

• Design end-to-end warehouse processes including:

o Inbound and receiving

o Put-away and replenishment

o Inventory management

o Picking, packing, and shipping

o Wave and workload management

o Returns and reverse logistics

o Cycle counting and inventory reconciliation

• Identify opportunities to use standard BY WMS functionality and minimize unnecessary customization.

• Define integration architecture between Blue Yonder and enterprise systems such as ERP/SAP, TMS, OMS, automation systems, material-handling equipment, and external logistics platforms.

• Provide architectural guidance for configuration, extensions, interfaces, data migration, testing, and deployment.

• Review solution designs and ensure scalability, performance, security, maintainability, and alignment with enterprise architecture standards.

• Lead design reviews and provide technical/functional guidance to developers, consultants, integration teams, and testing teams.

• Support SIT, UAT, cutover, go-live, hypercare, and production stabilization activities.

• Identify solution risks, dependencies, and design decisions and proactively drive them to closure.

• Act as a trusted advisor to customer stakeholders and provide recommendations on warehouse transformation and Blue Yonder roadmap opportunities.

• Support estimation, solution planning, and identification of additional transformation opportunities.

Required Experience & Skills

• 10+ years of supply chain/WMS experience, with significant hands-on experience in Blue Yonder WMS.

• Experience architecting and delivering at least 2–3 end-to-end Blue Yonder WMS implementations.

• Strong understanding of warehouse and distribution-center business processes.

• Deep knowledge of Blue Yonder WMS configuration, solution design, extensions, and integration patterns.

• Experience integrating WMS with SAP/ERP, TMS, OMS, automation/MHE, and third-party applications.

• Strong understanding of APIs, interfaces, messaging, master data, and transactional data flows.

• Experience with large-scale and multi-site WMS deployments preferred.

• Ability to conduct customer workshops and translate business requirements into solution architecture.

• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving capabilities.

• Excellent stakeholder management and executive communication skills.

• Ability to work effectively with geographically distributed business and technology teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Blue Yonder WMS certification or relevant Blue Yonder implementation credentials.

• Experience with Blue Yonder SaaS/cloud solutions and modernization programs.

• Experience in manufacturing, retail, logistics, automotive, or distribution environments.

• Knowledge of adjacent Blue Yonder capabilities such as TMS, Order Management, Labor Management, or Supply Chain Planning is advantageous.

• Prior consulting or customer-facing solution architecture experience.