Solutions Architect - Supply Chain and Logistics (WMS/T
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About The Position
The Solutions Architect plays a crucial role in bridging the gap between business requirements and technological solutions, optimizing Medline's investments in Supply Chain Operations and Logistics systems. This individual collaborates closely with business and IT leaders to align technology initiatives with strategic business goals. Responsibilities include influencing changes in business models and processes through insightful technology perspectives and analytical approaches to decision-making. The Solutions Architect serves as a consultant across a broad range of technologies to drive targeted business outcomes within the Supply Chain Operations and Logistics Management systems domain. They apply extensive techno-functional experience to provide expert analysis, research, and design of technical solutions that realize strategic benefits and enhance key business capabilities such as Warehousing and Distribution, Transportation Management and Route Planning, Order Fulfillment, Branch Automation, Reverse Logistics, Traceability, Recall, and Regulatory Compliance Management. In this role, the Solutions Architect provides leadership and technical decision-making to application teams and initiative stakeholders, ensuring alignment with enterprise and solution architectures, particularly in WMS, TMS, Physical Automation, and related Cloud platforms/technologies integrated with ERP, SCM/SCP, and other core systems. They build effective relationships and collaborate with Business and IT leaders to align the business roadmap with operational decisions. The architect translates business and technical requirements into actionable architectural blueprints to achieve business objectives and defines architectural principles and solution patterns to ensure optimal use of technology within the domain. Staying current with industry technology trends, they research and strategize the implementation of new or alternative technologies to advance business goals and competitive positioning. Additionally, they assess organizational and financial impacts of proposed architectural solutions and oversee governance activities to ensure compliance with architecture, development, security, and resiliency standards. Maintaining a clear view of the WMS, TMS, and Automation technical landscape, they provide actionable insights that mitigate obsolescence risks, increase compliance with standards, and rationalize application and technology investments.
