Senior Enterprise Solution Architect - Supply Chain Planning and Manufacturing

Blue Yonder Pvt Ltd; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Blue Yonder Pvt Ltd in Bengaluru is seeking a Sr. Enterprise Solution Architect for Supply Planning and Manufacturing.

Lead design, implementation, and optimization of Blue Yonder SCM solutions, owning architecture, integration strategy, and functional design. Collaborate with Pre-Sales, Product Management, Consulting, and Customer IT, serving as a trusted advisor to executives and guiding projects from discovery to post-go-live support.

Qualifications

• 13+ years of professional experience in enterprise software delivery.
• At least 6–8 years in solution architecture or senior consulting roles.
• Proven track record leading end-to-end implementations for large, complex customers.
• Hands-on experience estimating implementation effort, scoping integrations, and defining architecture cost and labor.
• Strong domain experience in retail supply chain, planning, allocation, merchandising, or closely related verticals.
• Experience facilitating integration and data/process flow discussions across application stacks.
• Experience advising executive and management stakeholders and delivering executive‑level presentations.
• Experience mentoring teams and conducting knowledge transfer to internal stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Estimate workload for implementation activities within scope; assess integration complexity, architecture cost, and labor requirements.
• Lead business process analysis and design during the sales cycle and throughout development; create functional and technical specifications.
• Prepare and deliver presentations to user, management, and executive audiences.
• Assist Project Managers with planning and create detailed tasks for project plans, including sales‑cycle and post‑go‑live enhancements.
• Demonstrate and facilitate integration discussions of product functionality and architecture (e.g., end‑to‑end data and process flows).
• Identify and communicate incremental revenue and enhancement opportunities.
• Communicate business cases and product trend insights to management to influence future functionality and solution offerings.
• Develop or lead teams in producing functional specs for modifications, interfaces, reports, and screens that meet customer objectives and best‑practice design.
• Ensure knowledge transfer with Cloud Services, Consulting Services, and Support stakeholders.
• Advise customers on industry best practices and process methodologies; tailor Blue Yonder solutions to customer uniqueness and industry verticals.
• Serve as the functional liaison in key meetings between Project Managers, customer contacts, users, and executive sponsors.
• Work with consulting, Product Management, and Pre‑Sales to recommend which Blue Yonder applications solve specific business challenges.
• Help define functional and technical specs to ensure efficient implementation and integration between technical and functional requirements.

Skills

Solution architecture

Business process analysis

Executive presentations

Stakeholder management

Pre-Sales collaboration

Project leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Eng/IS/Business

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

REST APIs

Kafka

Mulesoft

SFTP

AS2

Snowflake

Elasticsearch

Job description

Sr. Enterprise Solution Architect - Supply Planning, Manufacturing Scope: Lead the design, implementation, and optimization of Blue Yonder Supply Chain Planning & Optimization solutions, driving business process transformation for global customers. Own solution architecture, integration strategy, effort estimation, and functional design while collaborating with cross-functional teams across Pre-Sales, Product Management, Consulting, and Customer IT. Serve as a trusted advisor to customers and executive stakeholders, providing industry best practices, solution recommendations, and leadership throughout the project lifecycle from discovery to post-go-live support.

What you’ll do:

• Estimate workload for implementation activities within scope; assess integration complexity, architecture cost, and labor requirements.
• Lead business process analysis and design during the sales cycle and throughout development; create functional and technical specifications.
• Prepare and deliver presentations to user, management, and executive audiences.
• Assist Project Managers with planning and create detailed tasks for project plans, including sales‑cycle and post‑go‑live enhancements.
• Demonstrate and facilitate integration discussions of product functionality and architecture (e.g., end‑to‑end data and process flows).
• Identify and communicate incremental revenue and enhancement opportunities.
• Communicate business cases and product trend insights to management to influence future functionality and solution offerings.
• Develop or lead teams in producing functional specs for modifications, interfaces, reports, and screens that meet customer objectives and best‑practice design.
• Ensure knowledge transfer with Cloud Services, Consulting Services, and Support stakeholders.
• Advise customers on industry best practices and process methodologies; tailor Blue Yonder solutions to customer uniqueness and industry verticals.
• Serve as the functional liaison in key meetings between Project Managers, customer contacts, users, and executive sponsors.
• Work with consulting, Product Management, and Pre‑Sales to recommend which Blue Yonder applications solve specific business challenges.
• Help define functional and technical specs to ensure efficient implementation and integration between technical and functional requirements.

What we are looking for:

13+ years of professional experience in enterprise software delivery; at least 6–8 years in solution architecture or senior consulting roles. Proven track record leading end‑to‑end implementations for large, complex customers (requirements, design, integration, configuration, UAT, cutover). Hands‑on experience estimating implementation effort, scoping integrations, and defining architecture cost and labor. Strong domain experience in retail supply chain, planning, allocation, merchandising, or closely related verticals. Demonstrated ability to run business process workshops and translate outcomes into functional and technical specifications. Experience facilitating integration and data/process flow discussions across application stacks. Experience advising executive and management stakeholders and delivering executive‑level presentations. Strong stakeholder management across Pre‑Sales, Product Management, Cloud Services, Consulting, Operations, and Customer IT. Experience mentoring teams and conducting knowledge transfer to internal stakeholders.

Additional skills:

• Prior experience with Blue Yonder product suite or equivalent retail planning/allocation platforms.
• Experience with multi‑tenant SaaS delivery, cloud migrations, and enterprise SaaS operations.
• Working knowledge of CI/CD, containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Familiarity with integration technologies and patterns (REST APIs, Kafka, Mulesoft, SFTP, AS2) and modern data platforms (Snowflake, Elasticsearch).
• Prior involvement in pre‑sales scoping and the ability to identify incremental revenue opportunities.

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Business, or a closely related field — or equivalent practical experience.

Relevant certifications (examples):

Cloud: Azure/AWS Solution Architect or equivalent Enterprise architecture: TOGAF (or equivalent) Delivery/project: PMP, Prince2, or Agile/Scrum certifications (CSM, PMI‑ACP) Blue Yonder product certifications (if available)

Our Values

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Core Values

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

Experience Level Senior Level