WMS Development Lead EMEA
YOUR ROLE
As WMS Development Lead EMEA, you will be responsible for leading and coordinating Warehouse Management System (WMS) development across the region, ensuring successful delivery of both strategic roadmap initiatives and customised project-specific solutions.
You will oversee technical architecture governance and DevOps practices across both streams, ensuring all solutions are scalable, secure, and future-proof.
YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
1. Strategic Roadmap Delivery • Own the definition and execution of the WMS Development Roadmap for EMEA in alignment with the product strategy. • Prioritise roadmap initiatives in collaboration with business stakeholders, ensuring ROI, feasibility, and alignment with long-term architecture. • Ensure roadmap deliverables enhance system capability while reducing complexity and increasing standardisation. • Govern technical design for roadmap features, validating architectural integrity and compliance with standards. • Report progress, risks, and outcomes to senior management, ensuring proactive transparency across the roadmap portfolio.
2. Customised Project Solution Delivery • Oversee the design and delivery of bespoke customer-specific solutions required by implementation projects. • Collaborate with stakeholders to translate customer requirements into robust, maintainable technical solutions. • Validate and challenge customisation proposals, ensuring they are cost-effective, upgrade-safe, and technically sustainable. • Manage delivery performance (time, cost, quality) of customised developments across internal and external partners. • Safeguard the balance between project-driven customisations and the broader standardisation strategy to avoid system fragmentation.
3. Technical Architecture Leadership • Provide governance and assurance on all technical solutions, whether roadmap or project specific. • Ensure all developments adhere to corporate standards for security, scalability, integration, and cloud adoption. • Lead technical reviews to ensure proposed solutions are fit for purpose and optimise long-term performance. • Act as senior escalation point for complex technical challenges across both delivery streams.
4. DevOps & Engineering Excellence • Oversee adoption of DevOps practices across roadmap and customised delivery, embedding CI/CD, automated testing, deployment pipelines, and proactive monitoring. • Define and enforce common engineering standards (coding, branching, deployment, observability) across both streams. • Champion continuous improvement and modernisation (containerisation, cloud-native patterns, automation) within development practices. • Ensure both roadmap and project deliveries include operational readiness and long-term maintainability.
5. Partner & Resource Management • Allocate and coordinate resources across roadmap and project streams, balancing demand with capability. • Manage performance of internal teams and external partners against KPIs, ensuring quality, cost control, and accountability. • Oversee onboarding and enablement of resources, ensuring compliance with standards and delivery methodology. • Maintain cost transparency and financial reporting for both roadmap and customised delivery activities.
6. Unified Delivery Leadership • Ensure both roadmap initiatives and customised solutions are delivered to scope, on-time, on-budget, and to quality standards. • Provide structured reporting on progress, risks, dependencies, and satisfaction across both streams. • Proactively manage risks and dependencies where roadmap and project demands intersect. • Step in hands-on where necessary to unblock delivery challenges or accelerate progress.
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCES • Extensive knowledge of Blue Yonder WMS solutions • Proven experience delivering both standardised product roadmaps and customer-specific customised solutions. • Strong technical architecture and solution governance skills. • Knowledge of DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, automation, and cloud technologies. • Track record of managing external partners and distributed internal teams. • Skilled in balancing strategic standardisation with tactical customisation. • Strong problem-solving and communication skills with ability to simplify complexity for stakeholders. • Demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities across multiple delivery streams.
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