Business Architecture Manager (Blue Yonder TMS)

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Overview

The Business Architecture Manager leads the overall solution design of a customer's Transportation capability, working with the Technical Architect who leads the technical design and delivery. They lead cross functional teams and is a key contributor to communication between program delivery leads, customer stakeholders, and IT teams. They are comfortable presenting complex business processes and solutions to a variety of audiences including executive project sponsors. They influence the customer to adopt industry’s best practices and define how the Blue Yonder Transportation solutions will be configured and delivered to ensure customer objectives and goals are achieved.

Responsibilities

• Key lead in all aspects of customer journey throughout discovery, design, construction, testing, deployment and hypercare focused on transportation capabilities
• Lead functional design and integration of future state capabilities using a suite of products, to include Blue Yonder Transportation Planning, Transportation Modeling, Load Builder, BY Network, Platform and BY TMS as well as a variety of other complimentary solutions
• Facilitate customer change management leveraging industry best practices and process methodologies
• Design and develop solutions to close gaps between customer requirements where functionality does not exist in the out-of-box solutions
• Serve as an overall solution owner attending and contributing to key meetings between Project Manager, Technical Architect, key customer contacts, and customer users
• Provide variety of support to the project team, including quality assurance/design review, environment configuration, batch operations consulting, troubleshooting, and system testing
• Work with Blue Yonder Support Services team to ensure environment readiness and to proactively resolve customer issues
• Guide and conduct user acceptance testing and training sessions for end users, as project demand dictate
• Work with Cloud service team to ensure a seamless transition to Blue Yonder Steady State team
• Support the Transportation Segment Lead in client discovery, origination and solutioning of client needs during sales cycles

Minimum Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in enterprise level solution design, configuration, deployments, and cloud integrations working with the Blue Yonder Transportation Management Suite or similar platform
• Bachelor's degree or college diploma
• Strong understanding of functional transportation processes and translation of the functional requirements into configuration with the Blue Yonder Transportation Management suite.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in business requirements gathering, user story development and translating requirements to development teams
• Experience delivering transportation programs for clients
• Familiarity with integration technologies WEB/REST/SOAP Services, Mulesoft, ETL/APIs
• Unit, system integration and functional testing experience

Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation, based on full-time employment, for roles that may be hired as set forth below.

The recruiting efforts for this position are intended to fill a brand new position.

The base pay range shown below is intended as a guideline to reflect the majority of offers for this role. It does not represent a maximum limit — in some cases, actual compensation may exceed the range where appropriate.

Information on benefits is here.

Role Location Annual Salary Range

British Columbia/Ontario $99,450 to $209,900

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