Strategic Transformation Enterprise Solution Architect

ESA with CAT Man experience

Role Summary

As an Enterprise Architect focused on retail solutions, you will play a critical role in designing, guiding, and supporting end-to-end solution architecture for our retail customers—leveraging Blue Yonder’s suite of products. You will lead the architectural vision for large-scale transformation initiatives, collaborating closely with both internal teams and customer stakeholders to ensure solutions meet current and future business needs.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead solution architecture design for enterprise-scale implementations of Blue Yonder solutions, with deep expertise in Category Management and adjacent capabilities.
• Understand and advise on how Blue Yonder solutions can be configured and integrated to optimise customer business processes, especially in the retail supply chain domain.
• Analyse current ("As-Is") architectures and recommend future-state ("To-Be") designs, including clear transition strategies.
• Facilitate cross-product integration discussions and demonstrate data and process flow between Blue Yonder solutions.
• Act as the solution expert across transformation programs, guiding technical and business stakeholders.
• Deliver engaging presentations to business users, managers, and executive audiences to communicate solution strategy and benefits.
• Advises customers on industry best practices related to enterprise architecture relative to Blue Yonder Platform and solution methodology.
• Support Project Managers by contributing to planning activities, estimating implementation effort, and validating delivery approaches.
• Identify and assess business needs beyond the standard solution, including custom integration, configuration constraints, and architectural trade-offs.
• Develop detailed functional specifications for customisations, reports, interfaces, and screens to support seamless end-to-end integration.
• Develops and maintains blueprint system documentation throughout the project lifecycle.
• Collaborate in the development and execution of both SIT and UAT test scripts to validate that Blue Yonder solutions meet customer objectives.
• Provide Level 3 (non-technical) go-live support to confirm functionality, performance, and data integrity post-deployment.
• Identify and communicate incremental revenue opportunities or solution enhancements to customer account teams.
• Serve as a liaison across project stakeholders including Project Managers, Solution Architects, customer teams, and executive sponsors.
• Ensure robust knowledge transfer to the customer’s team for long-term solution sustainability.
• Interface with Product Management and Development teams to stay aligned on upcoming releases, feature enhancements, and to relay field feedback.

Required Skills & Experience

• Proven experience as an Enterprise Architect or senior Solution Architect, ideally in a retail-focused software or consulting environment.
• Strong hands-on knowledge of Blue Yonder solutions, particularly Category Management, Allocation & Replenishment, or Forecasting.
• Solid understanding of enterprise integration patterns, data flows, and architecture frameworks.
• Exceptional communication and presentation skills, with the ability to influence technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to balance short-term needs and long-term scalability.
• Ability to travel as needed to customer sites or regional offices.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with major retailers on software transformation projects.
• Familiarity with cloud-native solution design and SaaS delivery models.
• Formal architecture certification (e.g., TOGAF, Zachman, or similar) is a plus.

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