Director of Supply Chain Applications

National Vision; Georgia; Vor Ort; USD 150.000 - 210.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Health and dental insurance

401k retirement savings with company

Flex spending account

Paid personal time off

Paid company holidays

Parental leave

Employee eyewear discount

And much more

Zusammenfassung

National Vision is hiring a Director of Supply Chain Applications to lead the design, development, and modernization of the technology platforms supporting our supply chain operations. You will oversee the JDA environment on IBM i, guide transitions from legacy to cloud-based solutions, and ensure reliability, scalability, and risk management across the portfolio.

You will partner with business and technology leaders, drive strategic roadmaps, and lead modernization initiatives while maintaining

Qualifikationen

• Four year college degree in information technology, computer science, or a related field (Required)
• Experience with IBM i (AS/400 / iSeries) and JDA environment maintenance (Required)
• Demonstrated leadership of application development and support teams (Required)
• Experience migrating legacy environments to modern SaaS solutions (Preferred)
• Strong knowledge of end-to-end supply chain processes (Required)
• Ability to translate business needs into scalable technology solutions (Required)
• Proven ability to manage production incidents and root-cause analysis (Required)
• Experience with ALDON for IBM i source management (Required)

Aufgaben

• Oversees development of critical applications to support long-term goals
• Owns the supply chain application portfolio and lifecycle planning
• Oversees a customized JDA environment on IBM i for supply chain applications
• Provides technical direction on the JDA platform (RPG, CL, database)
• Reviews code changes and guides incident resolution
• Manages ALDON change management and releases
• Partners with leaders to translate requirements into scalable solutions
• Documents business rules and interfaces to preserve knowledge
• Defines standards for design, testing, and production support
• Improves availability, performance, security, and disaster recovery

Kenntnisse

Leadership

Strategic planning

Project management

Communication

Technical leadership

Supply chain

Risk management

Problem solving

Stakeholder management

Ausbildung

Bachelor's degree in IT/CS or related field

Tools

JDA on IBM i

ALDON

RPG development

CL programming

Db2 for i

DDS

SQL

APIs

Jobbeschreibung

At National Vision we believe everyone deserves to see their best to live their best. We help people by making quality eye care and eyewear more affordable and accessible. National Vision is one of the largest optical retail companies in the United States with over 1,200 stores. We operate four retail brands: America’s Best Contacts & Eyeglasses, Eyeglass World, and Vista Optical inside select Fred Meyer stores and on select military bases. We offer an innovative culture where training is a priority, hard work is praised, and career growth is a reality.

We are hiring for a Director of Supply Chain Applications to join our growing team!

The Director, Supply Chain Applications leads the design, development, implementation, support, and modernization of the technology platforms that enable the company's supply chain operations. This role is accountable for the performance and long‑term direction of the supply chain application portfolio and works closely with business and technology leaders to translate operational priorities into reliable, scalable solutions. The Director also guides the transition from legacy platforms to modern cloud-based solutions while maintaining business continuity, managing technology risk, and ensuring critical systems continue to support the company's evolving needs.

What Would You Do? The Specifics.

• Oversees the development of critical applications and technology to support the company’s long‑term goals.
• Owns the supply chain application portfolio, including strategy, delivery, maintenance, production support, and lifecycle planning.
• Oversees an extensively customized JDA environment running on IBM i (AS/400 / iSeries), supporting the applications and business processes that keep our supply chain operating.
• Provides technical direction and oversight for the customized JDA platform, including RPG programs, CL processing, database interactions, batch workflows, and interfaces, while ensuring sound architecture, maintainability, and operational reliability.
• Reviews complex code and application changes, assess downstream impacts, and guide troubleshooting of production issues.
• Oversees source control, change management, and release processes within ALDON, including dependency management, approvals, environment promotion, deployment readiness, and rollback planning.
• Serves as a technology partner to leaders across Supply Chain, Distribution, Merchandising, Finance translating operational requirements into scalable solutions, prioritized roadmaps, and informed technology investments.
• Documents critical business rules, customizations, interfaces, and operational dependencies to preserve institutional knowledge and reduce reliance on individual experts.
• Defines and maintains application development and support standards across solution design, coding, testing, documentation, production support, release management, and change control.
• Partners with Infrastructure and Operations teams to strengthen application availability, performance, security, disaster recovery, business continuity, and batch-processing reliability.
• Leads application modernization and transformation planning, including application discovery, requirements analysis, process assessment, solution evaluation, data mapping, migration planning, and transition readiness for future platform changes.
• Communicates application health, delivery progress, risks, and investment recommendations to business and technology leadership.
• Assists in the development, review, and compliance of IT policies and procedures including project approval process, signature authority policy, information security policies and processes, and disaster recovery and business continuity processes.

Work Experience

• 9+ years related experience working on IBM i (AS/400 / iSeries) (Required) and
• Experience sunsetting a legacy JDA/IBM environment and migrating to a modern SaaS solution such as Oracle (Preferred)
• Demonstrated leadership of application development and support teams responsible for business-critical systems. (Required)
• Demonstrated success leading enterprise application portfolios that support supply chain, distribution, retail, merchandising, or other large-scale operational functions. (Required)
• Extensive experience supporting and enhancing highly customized packaged applications with complex business rules, interfaces, and integration dependencies. (Required)
• Proven experience leading supply chain or merchandising platform modernization, replacement, or migration initiatives within complex operational environments. (Required)

Education

• Four year college degree or equivalent experience. in information technology, computer science, or a related field (Required)

Additional Skills

• Extensive hands‑on experience with RPG development on IBM i, including the ability to read, debug, evaluate, and provide technical direction for heavily customized legacy code. (Required)
• Strong familiarity with older fixed‑format RPG and experience with RPG III, RPG IV / ILE RPG, and newer RPG approaches, as applicable to the environment. (Required)
• Strong working knowledge of CL, Db2 for i, DDS, physical and logical files, libraries, jobs, job queues, job logs, and batch‑processing environments. (Required)
• Substantial hands‑on experience using ALDON for IBM i source management, change control, release governance, and application promotion. (Required)
• Strong understanding of end‑to‑end supply chain processes, including purchasing, inventory management, replenishment, allocation, distribution, and fulfillment. (Required)
• Proven ability to lead high‑priority production incident resolution, root‑cause analysis, corrective action, and long‑term risk mitigation. (Required)
• Demonstrated ability to translate technical constraints and business needs into clear priorities, practical delivery plans, and well‑supported investment decisions. (Required)
• Working knowledge of SQL, EDI, APIs, file‑based interfaces, and enterprise integration patterns. (Required)
• Experience identifying, validating, and documenting business rules embedded within legacy source code. (Required)

Taking Care of our People!

We also offer a comprehensive benefits package including health and dental insurance, 401k retirement savings with company match, flex spending account, paid personal time off, paid company holidays, parental leave, employee eyewear discount and much, much more.

• health and dental insurance
• 401k retirement savings with company match
• flex spending account
• paid personal time off
• paid company holidays
• parental leave
• employee eyewear discount
• and much, much more

We are an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, genetic information, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.