Application Architect - Supply Chain Technology

As the Supply Chain Management and Logistics Architect at Medline Industries, you will play a vital role in aligning business needs with technological solutions. Your focus will be on maximizing the value of our technology investments by collaborating with business and IT leaders to ensure that technology initiatives align with strategic goals. You will lead the design and implementation of solutions within the Supply Chain Management (SCM) and Logistics landscape, ensuring that projects adhere to architectural standards and best practices. Key areas of your responsibility will include Workforce Management Systems (WMS), Transportation Management Systems (TMS), and cloud application modernization. Your responsibilities will include providing technical leadership by leading the design, analysis, and realization of high-quality solutions for systems and applications, with a specific focus on WMS, TMS, and cloud modernization. You will develop and maintain detailed technical designs for software applications, following modern architecture principles, patterns, and best practices, while documenting all architecture design and analysis work. Additionally, you will oversee application design reviews to ensure solutions meet functional and non-functional requirements, including cost optimization, performance, reliability, scalability, security, and compliance. In this role, you will provide guidance to the IT team on development practices, CI/CD pipelines, testing, validation, monitoring, security, and system integrations to ensure adherence to Medline standards. Collaboration will be key as you work closely with management, business leaders, IT architects, and other stakeholders to prioritize and execute the IT roadmap in alignment with operational decisions. You will stay updated on industry trends in supply chain technology, evaluating and recommending new technologies and tools to enhance application development. Furthermore, you will coach and mentor technical subject matter experts, application team members, and enterprise architects to implement architectures supporting new business capabilities and operating models. To qualify for this role, you should have a Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, Systems Engineering, or a related field. Your domain knowledge should include in-depth understanding of supply chain processes and systems, particularly in Distribution and Transportation. You should have experience with major WMS and TMS platforms and their integrations with other systems. Additionally, you should have at least 15 years of experience in application development, with a minimum of 10 years in end-to-end application development and at least 5 years as an Architect. Preferred qualifications include experience leading successful global or regional WMS/TMS implementations, migrations, or upgrades. You should possess strong problem-solving skills, excellent communication skills, agile development understanding, and leadership capabilities. Join us at Medline Industries, where you can contribute to our continued growth and success in the supply chain management and logistics domain.,