Supply Chain IT Solution Architect (IBM/AS400)

BRIEF POSITION SUMMARY

• The position of Solution Architect at one of our client rganization demonstrates expertise by analyzing business problems articulating technology capabilities and weaving the best options together in to cohesive solutions that integrate in to Customers broader technology architecture
• Utilizing a palette of existing software frameworks custom and best of breed systems and hybrid cloud infrastructure there will be 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
• Leadership is expected and should be demonstrated by teaching and coaching others collaborating with peers and proposing new and better ways of doing things The Solutions Architect will be expected to drive improvements establish project milestones assist with planning and resource scheduling and make decisions which will shape the workstream and outcome of a project The architect is expected to establish governance and reusable patterns translate strategy into executable roadmaps and partner with internal and external stakeholders

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES ESSENTIAL DUTIES

• Lead endtoend IT solution design for supply chain initiatives decomposing business problems into scalable system designs and guiding solutions from concept to golive and steady state
• Define and maintain the system architecture vision roadmap reference architecture standards governance stage gates and reusable design patterns facilitate architecturedesign reviews and buildvsbuy decisions
• Architect system solutions across multiple platforms WMS WCSWES TMS planning inventory fulfillment and custom IBM iSeriesAS400 applications
• Own integration patterns across IBM iSeries WMS WCSWES ERP TMS SAPS4HANABTP 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 DRrunbooks release calendars incidentproblem management and rootcause 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 analystsdevelopersarchitects share current technology trends and performs additional duties or special projects as assigned

EDUCATION EXPERIENCE AND TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science Engineering or related discipline or equivalent experience required masters preferred
• 10 years IT experience with significant solution design experience lead designer or engineering leadership experience preferred for enterprisescale scope
• Programmingwebdata technologies such as RPGILE COBOL DB2 SQL QRY C C Python Java JavaScript HTMLCSS relationalnoSQL query languages
• Experience building realtime data streaming solutions between the cloud and enterprise systems using message queuing architectures that support event streaming and are reliable resilient and scalable
• Strong experience supporting supply chain distribution warehouse logistics transportation fulfillment or manufacturing technologies
• Proven delivery of major enterprise systems across multiple sites including vendor platform or budgetcost management
• Experience modernizing legacy environments
• Capability modeling targettransition roadmaps application rationalization and system documentationdiagrams
• IBM iSeriesAS400 RDI VSCode Turnover Implementer Jenkins GitHub batch processing legacy integration and modernization patterns JiraAtlassian Bitbucket ServiceNow and Office365 products word excel powerpoint visio or equivalent
• WMS WCSWES TMS planning inventory fulfillment SAP S4HANABTP Ariba
• IBM Sterling Integrator EDI ANSI X12 XML AS2 SFTP APIs middleware eventdriven patterns queues and canonical data models
• Google Cloud hybrid cloud architecture cloud integration API gateways observabilityAPMlogsmetricstracing security CICD testing and DR
• Multitier architectures load balancing distributed systems loose couplingstateless design or p

Skills

Mandatory Skills : Application Architecture