Senior IT Solution Architect - Warehouse & Supply Chain

Academy Sports and Outdoors; Katy (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Academy Sports + Outdoors is seeking a Solutions Architect to own end-to-end architectural design for merchandising systems, including Manhattan Active WM implementations, cloud integrations, and security considerations.

You will translate business needs into detailed architecture, partner with Merchandising and IT leadership, and drive initiatives to reduce reactive work while aligning with enterprise standards. This role is based at our Texas operations with cross-functional exposure.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering (Computer, Software, Electronics), or a relevant field of study required.

Responsibilities

• Directs the identification and recommendation of appropriate solutions, upgrades, replacements, or decommissioning options.
• Translate business requirements for merchandising systems into detailed, scalable technical architectures.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders within Merchandising to understand their needs.
• Analyze existing processes to identify opportunities for improvement through technology.
• Develops and executes solutions that further reduce reactive work.
• Interact with business leadership to establish a solid IT/operations relationship.
• Facilitates requirements refinement with a focus on service-level requirements.
• Collaborates with IT to ensure understanding of proposed architectures and feedback.
• Participates in design reviews to ensure traceability of design to solution architecture.

Skills

Agile methods

Architecture

Stakeholder communication

Problem solving

Independent work

Team collaboration

Microsoft Office

Cloud platforms (GCP & Azure)

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Manhattan Active WM

Google Cloud Platform

Microsoft Azure

Visio

SharePoint

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Academy Sports + Outdoors is seeking a Solutions Architect to own end-to-end architectural design for merchandising systems, including Manhattan Active WM implementations, cloud integrations, and security considerations.

You will translate business needs into detailed architecture, partner with Merchandising and IT leadership, and drive initiatives to reduce reactive work while aligning with enterprise standards. This role is based at our Texas operations with cross-functional exposure.