IT & Data Solution Architect - Supply Chain Planning

Roles & Responsibilities

• Partner with business stakeholders to understand Supply Chain Planning processes, challenges, and technology requirements.
• Translate business needs into scalable, secure, and sustainable solution architectures aligned with enterprise standards.
• Define and govern end-to-end architecture for Supply Planning platforms, applications, integrations, and data flows.
• Lead solution design reviews and ensure compliance with architectural principles, security policies, and governance frameworks.
• Design and manage enterprise integrations, APIs, data models, transformation rules, and interface standards across connected systems.
• Drive data governance initiatives, ensuring data quality, integrity, monitoring, and consistency across planning ecosystems.
• Collaborate with Product Owners to shape product roadmaps, platform evolution strategies, and technology modernization initiatives.
• Provide technical leadership to development, configuration, testing, and deployment teams throughout the solution lifecycle.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and lead PoCs, MVPs, and innovation initiatives to enhance Supply Chain Planning capabilities.
• Establish platform, tenant, and infrastructure strategies while optimizing performance, scalability, and total cost of ownership.
• Identify technical risks, architectural gaps, and dependencies, and recommend mitigation strategies.
• Ensure solution stability, reliability, compliance, and operational excellence through monitoring and governance frameworks.
• Coordinate with Enterprise Architecture, Cloud, Data, Security, and Delivery teams to ensure seamless implementation.
• Drive release governance, change management, and continuous improvement of Supply Planning solutions.
• Act as the primary architecture advisor for business and IT stakeholders, providing strategic technology guidance and decision support.

Technical Requirements

• Supply Chain Planning
• Solution Architecture
• Enterprise Architecture
• o9 Solutions / SAP IBP / Blue Yonder
• API & Integration Architecture
• MuleSoft / Informatica / Talend
• Data Architecture & Data Governance
• Cloud Platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP)
• Data Modeling & Data Quality
• Security & Compliance
• Technical Leadership
• Stakeholder Management
• Architecture Governance
• Release & Deployment Management
• AI/ML-enabled Planning Solutions