Supply Chain Warehousing Solution Architect

Accenture • St. Louis, MO

1d • $112,900 - $338,300 • Hybrid

About The Position

Accenture's Supply Chain & Operations practice architects systems for demanding distribution networks. We advise Fortune 500 leaders in retail, e-commerce, consumer goods, grocery, third-party logistics, and industrial manufacturing on technology decisions shaping warehouse operations. Our Warehousing & Distribution Engineering team offers expertise in WMS platform selection, solution design, and integration architecture across automation systems, ERP, and other supply chain applications, leveraging deep platform knowledge, rigorous architectural thinking, and Accenture's global ecosystem to build scalable and evolving solutions.

Requirements

• Minimum of 8 years of experience in supply chain technology, WMS implementation, or distribution center systems delivery, including at least 6 years of experience in a Solution Architect or Senior Functional Architect role supporting large-scale WMS or distribution center automation programs.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience architecting and delivering Manhattan Active® WM solutions, including platform design, configuration strategy, extensibility framework, cloud/SaaS deployment architecture, and enterprise integrations within high-volume distribution center environments.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience designing and implementing WMS integration architectures, including API, event-driven, and batch integration patterns, data modeling, middleware strategy, and integrations with ERP, TMS, OMS, WCS/WES, LMS, automation systems, and analytics platforms.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience translating complex business and operational requirements into scalable WMS solution designs and leading cross-functional programs involving multiple vendors, stakeholders, and delivery teams.

Nice To Haves

• Experience architecting the integration of warehouse automation systems—AS/RS, AMRs, conveyor/sortation, robotic picking, WCS/WES—with WMS platforms, including throughput modeling, failure mode design, and operational resilience requirements.
• Demonstrated experience leading WMS technology selection and RFP/RFI processes, including requirements definition, evaluation criteria development, vendor scoring, and executive recommendation for enterprise WMS investments.
• Strong executive communication and stakeholder management skills, with experience presenting architecture decisions, technology trade-offs, and strategic recommendations to C-suite, CIO/CTO, and VP-level client audiences.
• Manhattan Active® WM certification or Manhattan Associates partner-level credentials, or equivalent platform recognition.
• Experience designing WMS solutions on cloud/SaaS infrastructure—including multi-tenant architecture, data residency, disaster recovery, and integration patterns specific to cloud-hosted WMS deployments.
• Hands-on architecture experience with Blue Yonder Luminate Warehouse Management, SAP Extended Warehouse Management (EWM), Oracle WMS Cloud, or other leading enterprise WMS platforms in addition to Manhattan.
• Experience with integration middleware platforms (MuleSoft, Azure Service Bus, Dell Boomi, IBM MQ, or equivalent) in the context of enterprise WMS integration programs.
• Experience with warehouse data and analytics architecture—including WMS operational data models, real-time reporting pipelines, labor analytics, and AI/ML applications for demand sensing, labor forecasting, or slotting optimization.
• Direct DC operations or industrial engineering experience that gives you credibility on the warehouse floor and sharpens your ability to design solutions grounded in operational reality.
• Lean Six Sigma, TOGAF, or other architecture or operational excellence certifications.
• Consulting or systems integrator experience delivering WMS architecture for Fortune 500 clients across retail, e-commerce, grocery, consumer goods, third-party logistics, or industrial/manufacturing sectors.
• MBA or an advanced technical degree in a related discipline.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the end-to-end WMS solution architecture for large distribution center transformation programs, establishing the technology landscape, platform design, integration architecture, and solution governance framework across WMS, WCS/WES, ERP, automation systems, and adjacent supply chain applications.
• Lead the solution design for Manhattan Active® WM implementations, including platform configuration approach, extensibility and customization strategy, deployment architecture (cloud/SaaS), data model design, and alignment with Manhattan Associates’ product roadmap and best practices; apply equivalent architectural rigor to Blue Yonder Luminate, SAP EWM, or other platforms where required.
• Architect and govern the integration layer between WMS and connected systems—ERP (SAP, Oracle), TMS, OMS, labor management, slotting, material handling automation (WCS/WES, AS/RS, AMR, conveyor/sortation), and BI/analytics platforms—defining API and messaging patterns, data flows, payload design, and middleware selection.
• Lead WMS technology assessment and platform selection engagements: define business and technical requirements, author RFP/RFI documentation, establish evaluation criteria and scoring frameworks, manage vendor demonstrations, and develop platform recommendations for senior client leadership.
• Design the integration architecture for warehouse automation solutions—AS/RS, goods-to-person, conveyor and sortation, autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), robotic picking, pick-to-light/voice—ensuring WMS, WES, and WCS layers are architected for throughput, operational resilience, failover, and scalability at full production volume.
• Translate complex business requirements and DC operational processes into scalable, maintainable WMS solution designs that maximize native platform capability, minimize unnecessary customization, and position clients for platform upgrades and innovation over the solution lifecycle.
• Provide architectural leadership and technical oversight to configuration teams, functional leads, technical developers, and integration engineers throughout the program—conducting design reviews, adjudicating solution decisions, and maintaining alignment between the approved architecture and delivered solution.
• Lead architecture governance across the program: own the solution decisions log and architecture change control process; serve as the senior technical escalation point for complex functional, integration, and performance issues during design, build, and testing phases.
• Develop and maintain client-facing solution architecture artifacts: current- and future-state technology landscape diagrams, integration architecture blueprints, architecture decision records (ADRs), platform evaluation scorecards, and solution design documentation suitable for client executive and IT leadership audiences.
• Serve as a trusted technology advisor to client CIOs, CTOs, VP-level IT and supply chain leaders, and enterprise architects—communicating architecture decisions, technology trade-offs, risk assessments, and strategic recommendations with clarity and executive presence.
• Support Accenture business development—solution architecture for proposals and RFP responses, technology sections of SOWs and contracts, client demonstrations of WMS platform capability, and development of differentiated points of view on WMS and warehouse automation technology strategy.
• Build Accenture’s WMS and automation technology practice: develop reusable architecture patterns, integration accelerators, platform evaluation tools, and technology POVs; support alliance relationships with Manhattan Associates, automation OEMs, and adjacent technology partners.

Benefits

• medical
• dental
• vision
• life
• long-term disability coverage
• 401(k) plan
• bonus opportunities
• paid holidays
• paid time off

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed