Transportation Solution Architect – TMS & Blue Yonder

Accenture; Detroit (MI); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a Solution Architect to lead the overall design of transportation capabilities, coordinating cross-functional teams and stakeholders. You will influence best practices and configure Blue Yonder Transportation solutions to meet client objectives, guiding design, testing, and deployment across the program lifecycle.

With a focus on transportation processes, you will translate requirements into effective configurations, collaborate with PMs, architects and client contacts, and

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in enterprise level solution design, configuration, deployments, and cloud integrations with the Blue Yonder Transportation Management Suite or similar platform.
• Minimum of 5 years of strong understanding of functional transportation processes and translation of the functional requirements into configuration with the Blue Yonder Transportation Management Suite.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 10 years' work experience). If Associate’s Degree, must have equivalent (minimum 6-year work experience)

Responsibilities

• Key lead in all aspects of customer journey throughout discovery, design, construction, testing, deployment and hypercare focused on transportation capabilities
• Lead functional design and integration of future state capabilities using a suite of products, to include Blue Yonder Transportation Planning, Transportation Modeling, Load Builder, BY Network, Platform and BY TMS as well as a variety of other complimentary solutions
• Facilitate customer change management leveraging industry best practices and process methodologies
• Design and develop solutions to close gaps between customer requirements where functionality does not exist in the out-of-box solutions
• Serve as an overall solution owner attending and contributing to key meetings between Project Manager, Technical Architect, key customer contacts, and customer users
• Provide variety of support to the project team, including quality assurance/design review, environment configuration, batch operations consulting, troubleshooting, and system testing
• Work with Blue Yonder Support Services team to ensure environment readiness and to proactively resolve customer issues
• Guide and conduct user acceptance testing and training sessions for end users, as project demand dictate
• Work with Cloud service team to ensure a seamless transition to Blue Yonder Steady State team
• Support the Transportation Segment Lead in client discovery, origination and solutioning of client needs during sales cycles

Job description

Accenture is seeking a Solution Architect to lead the overall design of transportation capabilities, coordinating cross-functional teams and stakeholders. You will influence best practices and configure Blue Yonder Transportation solutions to meet client objectives, guiding design, testing, and deployment across the program lifecycle.

With a focus on transportation processes, you will translate requirements into effective configurations, collaborate with PMs, architects and client contacts, and