ESA with CAT Man experience Role Summary As an Enterprise Architect focused on retail solutions, you will play a critical role in designing, guiding, and supporting end-to-end solution architecture for our retail customers—leveraging Blue Yonder’s suite of products. You will lead the architectural vision for large-scale transformation initiatives, collaborating closely with both internal teams and customer stakeholders to ensure solutions meet current and future business needs. Key Responsibilities Lead solution architecture design for enterprise-scale implementations of Blue Yonder solutions, with deep expertise in Category Management and adjacent capabilities. Understand and advise on how Blue Yonder solutions can be configured and integrated to optimise customer business processes, especially in the retail supply chain domain. Analyse current ("As-Is") architectures and recommend future-state ("To-Be") designs, including clear transition strategies. Facilitate cross-product integration discussions and demonstrate data and process flow between Blue Yonder solutions. Act as the solution expert across transformation programs, guiding technical and business stakeholders. Deliver engaging presentations to business users, managers, and executive audiences to communicate solution strategy and benefits. Advises customers on industry best practices related to enterprise architecture relative to Blue Yonder Platform and solution methodology. Support Project Managers by contributing to planning activities, estimating implementation effort, and validating delivery approaches. Identify and assess business needs beyond the standard solution, including custom integration, configuration constraints, and architectural trade-offs. Develop detailed functional specifications for customisations, reports, interfaces, and screens to support seamless end-to-end integration. Develops and maintains blueprint system documentation throughout the project lifecycle. Collaborate in the development and execution of both SIT and UAT test scripts to validate that Blue Yonder solutions meet customer objectives. Provide Level 3 (non-technical) go-live support to confirm functionality, performance, and data integrity post-deployment. Identify and communicate incremental revenue opportunities or solution enhancements to customer account teams. Serve as a liaison across project stakeholders including Project Managers, Solution Architects, customer teams, and executive sponsors. Ensure robust knowledge transfer to the customer’s team for long-term solution sustainability. Interface with Product Management and Development teams to stay aligned on upcoming releases, feature enhancements, and to relay field feedback. Required Skills & Experience Proven experience as an Enterprise Architect or senior Solution Architect, ideally in a retail-focused software or consulting environment. Strong hands-on knowledge of Blue Yonder solutions, particularly Category Management, Allocation & Replenishment, or Forecasting. Solid understanding of enterprise integration patterns, data flows, and architecture frameworks. Exceptional communication and presentation skills, with the ability to influence technical and non-technical audiences. Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to balance short-term needs and long-term scalability. Ability to travel as needed to customer sites or regional offices. Preferred Qualifications Experience working with major retailers on software transformation projects. Familiarity with cloud-native solution design and SaaS delivery models. Formal architecture certification (e.g., TOGAF, Zachman, or similar) is a plus. 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.