Solution and Functional Architect (SAFA)

Consulting Lead

Pay Rate Range: $ 60.71 - 62.50/hr. GBaMS ReqID: 10615560

Job Description:

Essential Skills:

• Translate business goals into a sequenced transformation roadmap (assortment, inventory, forecasting, pricing signals, replenishment adjacencies).
• Own the end-to-end design across process, data, analyticsML, and apps.
• Frame use cases, evaluation metrics, human-in-the-loop workflows, explainability standards, and productionization patterns.
• Build business cases, define KPIsOKRs, and track benefits publish monthly value dashboards to leadership.
• Act as the single point of accountability for GPC leaders coordinate with Internal team and boutique vendors, plus product vendors.
• Run POD rituals, riskissue management, release planning, and dependency orchestration with cross-functional teams.
• Drive adoption (playbooks, training, change impacts) across MerchAssortment and Supply Chain operations.

Preferred Skills:

• Retail Client merchandising, clustering, space/planogram awareness, price promo signals.
• Exposure to Vertex, IBM SPSS legacy transitions, and custom product platforms (e.g., PULSE).
• Partner ecosystem orchestration (multi-vendor models near/offshore).

Certifications:

• CSCPCPIM (ASCM), PMPPrince2, TOGAF, SAFe, or equivalent.

Tools Tech (nice to have):

• Cloud dataAI stacks (AzureAWSGCP), DatabricksSnowflake, MLflow, Feature Store, API gateways.
• AnalyticsBI (Power BITableau), AB testing frameworks, observability (logsmetricstraces).

Competencies:

• 6-8+ years experience Solution and Functional Architect (SAFA)

Skills:

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