Functional Manager – Transportation Management Solution Architect (High Tech)

Accenture•St. Louis, MO

19h•$80,400 - $266,300•Onsite

About The Position

The Solution architect leads the overall solution design of a customer's Transportation capability, working with the Technical Architect who leads the technical design and delivery. The Solution Architect leads cross functional teams and is a key contributor to communication between program delivery leads, customer stakeholders, and IT teams. They are comfortable presenting complex business processes and solutions to a variety of audiences including executive project sponsors. They influence the customer to adopt industry’s best practices and define how the Blue Yonder Transportation solutions will be configured and delivered to ensure customer objectives and goals are achieved.

Requirements

Minimum of 5 years of experience in enterprise level solution design, configuration, deployments, and cloud integrations working 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).

Nice To Haves

Experience in business requirements gathering, user story development and translating requirements to development teams
Experience delivering transportation programs for clients
Familiarity with integration technologies WEB/REST/SOAP Services, Mulesoft, ETL/APIs
Unit, system integration and functional testing 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