Solution Architect

Position - Supply Chain IT Solution Architect

Hybrid at 525 Harbour PI Dr. Davidson , NC 28036

Contract 6 months

The customer's key requirement is a Solution Architect with a strong AS400/iSeries background” with WMS

BRIEF POSITION SUMMARY

The position of Solution Architect at one of our client rganization demonstrates expertise by analyzing business problems articulating technology capabilities and weaving the best options together in to cohesive solutions that integrate in to Customers broader technology architectureUtilizing a palette of existing software frameworks custom and best of breed systems and hybrid cloud infrastructure there will be opportunity to create solutions that add business value and create competitive advantage for the Customer This position is expected to push the limits of our existing architecture and if new capabilities are needed help the Customer to close the gapLeadership is expected and should be demonstrated by teaching and coaching others collaborating with peers and proposing new and better ways of doing things The Solutions Architect will be expected to drive improvements establish project milestones assist with planning and resource scheduling and make decisions which will shape the workstream and outcome of a project The architect is expected to establish governance and reusable patterns translate strategy into executable roadmaps and partner with internal and external stakeholdersDUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES ESSENTIAL DUTIES

Lead end to end IT solution design for supply chain initiatives decomposing business problems into scalable system designs and guiding solutions from concept to go live and steady stateDefine 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 decisionsArchitect system solutions across multiple platforms WMS WCSWES TMS planning inventory fulfillment and custom IBM iSeriesAS400 applicationsOwn integration patterns across IBM iSeries WMS WCSWES ERP TMS SAPS4HANABTP Google Cloud IBM Sterling Integrator EDI APIs middleware event messaging file exchange and partner connectivityProvide architectural leadership for warehouse automation and robotics including ASRS AMR PLC Fortna Auto Store Exacta Savoye iPack Cubiscan Plus One Osaro and related material handling solutionsEnsure reliable data flow across systems maintain integration frameworks documentation data dictionaries and traceability standardsDrive reliability quality and operational readiness environment strategy testing assets observability SRE practices security controls DRrun books release calendars incident problem management and root cause remediationPartner with Industrial Engineering Operations Maintenance IT Operations IT Security Data Finance vendors communicate effectively with warehouse teams technical teams and executivesIdentify opportunities for automation analytics AIML workflow improvement and technical debt reduction while ensuring compliance security and change management controlsFoster Customer culture mentor analysts developers architects share current technology trends and performs additional duties or special projects as assignedEDUCATION EXPERIENCE AND TECHNICAL SKILLSBachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or related discipline or equivalent experience required masters preferred10 years IT experience with significant solution design experience lead designer or engineering leadership experience preferred for enterprise scale scopeProgramming webdata technologies such as RPGILE COBOL DB2 SQL QRY C C Python Java JavaScript HTMLCSS relationalnoSQL query languagesExperience 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 scalableStrong experience supporting supply chain distribution warehouse logistics transportation fulfillment or manufacturing technologiesProven delivery of major enterprise systems across multiple sites including vendor platform or budget cost managementExperience modernizing legacy environmentsCapability modeling target transition roadmaps application rationalization and system documentation diagramsIBM iSeriesAS400 RDI VSCode Turnover Implementer Jenkins GitHub batch processing legacy integration and modernization patterns Jira Atlassian Bitbucket ServiceNow and Office365 products word excel power point vision or equivalentWMS WCSWES TMS planning inventory fulfillment SAP S4HANABTP AribaIBM Sterling Integrator EDI ANSI X12 XML AS2 SFTP APIs middleware event driven patterns queues and canonical data modelsGoogle Cloud hybrid cloud architecture cloud integration API gateways observability APM logs metrics tracing security CICD testing and DRMultitier architectures load balancing distributed systems loose coupling stateless designSkills

Mandatory Skills : Application Architecture