Senior JDA / Blue Yonder Solution Architect – Space & Floor Planning

ThoughtStorm; Mississauga; On-site; CAD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

ThoughtStorm is seeking a Senior Solution Architect / Application Consultant with extensive retail planning and merchandising application experience, notably JDA Space Planning and JDA Floor Planning. You will act as a senior SME and trusted advisor, delivering functional application support, solution design, troubleshooting, enhancements, requirements analysis, integrations, and modernization guidance.

You will collaborate with business stakeholders and delivery teams to translate needs into

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in retail application consulting, retail planning, merchandising systems, or a closely related domain.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a senior SME and trusted advisor for functional application support, solution design, troubleshooting, enhancements, requirements analysis, integrations, and application modernization guidance.
• Gather business requirements and translate them into functional requirements, solution designs, workflows, and implementation approaches.
• Analyze application integrations, data flows, interfaces, and enterprise integration environments to support implementation.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, technology teams, developers, analysts, and delivery teams in workshops, reviews, testing, and production support.
• Evaluate enhancement requests and recommend configuration, customization, or architectural solutions based on feasibility and business value.

Skills

Retail domain expertise

Solution architecture

Business requirements gathering

Stakeholder collaboration

ERP/retail systems

Tools

JDA Space Planning

JDA Floor Planning

CAD/AutoCAD

Job description

Position Overview

We are looking for a Senior Solution Architect / Application Consultant with extensive retail planning and merchandising application experience, particularly with JDA Space Planning and JDA Floor Planning. The ideal candidate will serve as a senior SME and trusted advisor, providing functional application support, solution design, troubleshooting, enhancements, requirements analysis, integrations, and application modernization guidance.

Key Requirements & Responsibilities

• 10+ years of experience in retail application consulting, retail planning, merchandising systems, or a closely related domain.
• Strong hands-on experience with JDA Space Planning and JDA Floor Planning in enterprise retail environments.
• Strong knowledge of Micro Space, Macro Space, Planograms, Fixtures, Store Layouts, Departments, Selling Areas, and Space Allocation.
• Experience supporting enterprise retail applications in production, including complex issue troubleshooting, root‑cause analysis, enhancements, and continuous improvement.
• Ability to gather business requirements and translate them into functional requirements, solution designs, workflows, and implementation approaches.
• Experience analyzing application integrations, data flows, interfaces, upstream/downstream dependencies, APIs, databases, and enterprise integration environments.
• Strong understanding of the interaction between Space Planning, Floor Planning, Assortment Planning, Planogram, and Merchandising applications.
• Ability to assess whether issues are related to configuration, data, integrations, application behavior, or business processes and recommend practical solutions.
• Experience working directly with business stakeholders, technology teams, developers, analysts, and delivery teams in requirements workshops, design reviews, testing, defect triage, and production support.
• Experience contributing to application modernization, migration, future‑state architecture, cloud transformation, or legacy application replacement initiatives.
• Strong ability to evaluate enhancement requests and recommend configuration, customization, process, or architectural solutions based on feasibility, risk, maintainability, and business value.
• JDA / Blue Yonder product experience or certification, large‑scale retail experience, multi‑store/multi‑format environments, and CAD/AutoCAD or store‑layout data experience are considered assets.