Enterprise Solution Architect
First seen by Alion on Sep 15, 2026.
Scope:
Lead enterprise-wide architecture across retail and supply chain domains, ensuring scalability, performance, and integration integrity.
Collaborate with Pre-Sales, Product Management, and Delivery teams to define roadmaps, evaluate emerging technologies, and align solution designs with customer strategy.
What You'll Do:
- Drive end-to-end solution design, translating complex business requirements into scalable, integrated, and high-performing solutions.
- Lead business process analysis and design workshops, preparing comprehensive functional and technical designs for solution components.
- Act as a trusted advisor and retail domain expert, recommending industry best practices and process optimizations aligned with business objectives.
- Engage with executive stakeholders to present solution strategies, design rationales, and measurable business outcomes.
- Act as a functional liaison across Consulting, Pre-Sales, Cloud, and Support teams, ensuring alignment, collaboration, and effective knowledge transition.
- Support project planning efforts by estimating work scope, cost, and integration complexity, assisting Project Managers in defining realistic and efficient project plans.
- Facilitate solution demonstrations and integration discussions, including data and process flows between Enterprise Planning and Store Shelf Planning systems.
- Identify and develop incremental revenue and enhancement opportunities within ongoing projects; articulate business cases for future product improvements.
- Mentor and guide Solution Architects and Consultants, promoting delivery excellence, architectural consistency, and continuous capability growth.
- Champion standardization and reusability through the creation of frameworks, templates, and best-practice methodologies.
- Provide strategic industry insights, advising clients on transformation, modernization, and process optimization initiatives aligned to Blue Yonder's capabilities and roadmap.
What We Are Looking For:
- 15+ years in Manufacturing or supply chain planning, with 5+ years focused on JDA/Blue Yonder Enterprise Planning.
- Preferably from T1 Business school or Technology Institutes.
- Deep functional and architectural expertise in demand Planning, Supply Planning, MRP, Production Planning, order optimization, Inventory Planning, Sales & Operation Planning related modules.
- Proven experience in solution estimation, architecture governance, and end-to-end delivery leadership.
- Strong understanding of Manufacturing processes including CPG & White Goods Manufacturing, Industrial and Automative, Semi-Conductor & Consumer Electronics, Metals, Pharmaceutical data flows, and integration patterns.
- Skilled in preparing and delivering presentations to business, management, and executive audiences.
- Hands-on experience designing and delivering functional and technical specifications.
- Ability to identify incremental value opportunities and articulate business cases for innovation.
- Excellent analytical, stakeholder management, and communication skills.
- Experience in global delivery models with strong onshore - offshore coordination.
- Willingness to travel as per business needs.
Our Values:
If you want to know the heart of a company, take a look at their values.
Ours unite us.
They are what drive our success - and the success of our customers.
Does your heart beat like ours? Find out here: Core Values.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.
Skills
Solution Design, Solution Architect, Presales