Senior IT Solutions Architect - AI-Driven Supply Chain

MSC Industrial Direct Co.,Inc.; Davidson (NC); Hybrid; USD 155,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

MSC Industrial Supply Co. seeks an IT Solutions Architect for Supply Chain to lead the transformation of MSC’s software landscape across WMS/WCS/WES, Logistics, Planning and Purchasing.

You will translate business strategy into secure, scalable systems, guide legacy modernization, cloud, and integration patterns, and partner with IT and business teams to deliver measurable value. You will mentor engineers, drive AI adoption, ensure governance, and champion security, reliability, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline, or equivalent experience required; master’s preferred.
• 10+ years IT experience with significant solution design experience; lead designer or engineering leadership experience; enterprise-scale scope preferred.
• Programming/web/data technologies such as RPGILE, COBOL, DB2, SQL, QRY, C#, C++, Python, Java, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, relational/no-SQL query languages.
• Experience building real-time data streaming solutions between the cloud and enterprise systems using message queuing architectures that support event streaming and are reliable, resilient, and scalable.
• Strong experience supporting supply chain, distribution, warehouse, logistics, transportation, fulfillment or manufacturing technologies.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end IT solution for supply chain initiatives, decomposing business problems into scalable system designs and guiding solutions from concept to go-live and steady state.
• Define and maintain the system architecture vision, roadmap, reference architecture, standards, governance, stage gates and reusable design patterns; facilitate architecture/design reviews and build-vs-buy decisions.
• Architect system solutions across multiple platforms WMS, WCS/WES, TMS, planning, inventory, fulfillment, and custom IBM iSeries/AS400 applications.
• Own integration patterns across IBM iSeries applications, WMS, WCS/WES, ERP, TMS, SAP/S/4HANA/BTP, Google Cloud, IBM Sterling Integrator, EDI, APIs, middleware, event messaging, file exchange and partner connectivity.
• Design Microservices and APIs: create microservices, APIs, data models, and integration patterns that support modular, scalable and modern applications.
• Provide architectural leadership for warehouse automation systems and robotics, including ASRS, AMR, PLC, Fortna, AutoStore, Exacta, Savoye, iPack, Cubiscan, Plus One, Osaro and related material handling solutions.
• Ensure reliable data flow across systems; maintain integration frameworks, documentation, data dictionaries and traceability standards.
• Drive reliability, quality and operational readiness, environment strategy, testing assets, observability, SRE practices, security controls, DR/runbooks, release calendars, incident/problem management and root-cause remediation.
• Partner with Industrial Engineering, Logistics, Warehouse Operations, Maintenance, IT Operations, IT Security, Data Analytics, and software vendors; communicate effectively with warehouse teams, technical teams and executives.
• Identify automation opportunities, drive AI adoption, and technical debt reduction while ensuring compliance, and security.
• Mentor analysts/developers/architects and share current technology trends
• Fosters the MSC Culture in the department and throughout the company to ensure fulfillment of MSC’s vision and unity of purpose
• Participation in special projects and performs additional duties as required

Skills

RPGILE

COBOL

DB2

SQL

Java

Python

JavaScript

HTML/CSS

Google Cloud

WMS/WCS/WES

IBM iSeries/AS400

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline

Master’s degree preferred

Tools

Jenkins

GitHub

Jira/Atlassian

VSCode

Turnover

IBM Sterling Integrator

Job description

MSC Industrial Supply Co. seeks an IT Solutions Architect for Supply Chain to lead the transformation of MSC’s software landscape across WMS/WCS/WES, Logistics, Planning and Purchasing.

You will translate business strategy into secure, scalable systems, guide legacy modernization, cloud, and integration patterns, and partner with IT and business teams to deliver measurable value. You will mentor engineers, drive AI adoption, ensure governance, and champion security, reliability, and