Lineage is actively searching for a Blue Yonder Senior Platform Engineer who will be the 'go to' for business users needing assistance with advanced projects and issues within the Blue Yonder platform. This role combines business analysis, platform expertise, and project management to lead the platform roll-out and support the business thereafter.
Responsibilities:
- Quickly learns the various current core business processes within all the trucking markets of Lineage globally and the underlying systems and manual processes that support those processes at a very high level
- Maintains and develops internal business relationships and IT relationships to learn and influence the various key business and IT stakeholders
- Partners with business and technology partners to elicit, analyze, translate, and document requirements/needs and drives solutions to solve those needs
- Determines operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development, and proposed solutions
- Determines platform solutions or configurations by studying information needs, conferring with users, and studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes
- Works with executive and senior leaders to create and maintain an operating plan to achieve the strategic vision and operating platform that defines the people, processes, tools, and technology
- Provides internal support for evaluation of needed system functionality in existing and proposed applications to ensure solutions are optimized for quality and ongoing support
- Helps to design and maintain integrations between the BY platform and other standard/strategic solutions globally. Evaluates non-standard integration needs to determine the best step for those needs
- Manages the delivery of configuration and/or development needs to mitigate business requirements. Guides the business in the proper solution for those needs
- Coordinates with business areas to ensure proper testing, documentation, and training for solutions
- Coordinates the project resources to ensure that projects are delivered on time and within budget
- Helps to ensure proper support and maintenance for IT systems are in place and participates in major incident management processes
- Helps to ensure proper licensing agreements are in place for COTS/SaaS application, cost are managed properly, and renewals are timely
- Helps to ensure proper SOX controls and security protocols are in place for systems within the Redistribution division
- Monitor system performance and propose enhancements to improve efficiency and user experience
- Stay updated on industry trends and advancements in transportation management systems
- Must be willing to travel (including internationally) during peak project milestones (anticipated to be ~30% travel)
Requirements:
- Approximately 12 years of IT experience including Blue Yonder TMOD & TM
- Deep expertise in TMS systems (BY specifically)
- Solid understanding of supply chain logistics
- Ability to coordinate needed expertise to provide solutions
- Adept at collaborating with cross-functional teams
- Ability to quickly learn various current core business processes within all the trucking markets of Lineage globally
- Ability to maintain and develop internal business relationships and IT relationships
- Ability to partner with business and technology partners to elicit, analyze, translate, and document requirements/needs
- Ability to determine operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development, and proposed solutions
- Ability to determine platform solutions or configurations by studying information needs, conferring with users, and studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes
- Ability to work with executive and senior leaders to create and maintain an operating plan
- Ability to provide internal support for evaluation of needed system functionality
- Ability to help design and maintain integrations between the BY platform and other standard/strategic solutions globally
- Ability to manage the delivery of configuration and/or development needs
- Ability to coordinate with business areas to ensure proper testing, documentation, and training for solutions
- Ability to coordinate the project resources to ensure that projects are delivered on time and within budget
- Ability to ensure proper support and maintenance for IT systems
- Ability to monitor system performance and propose enhancements
- Willingness to travel (including internationally) during peak project milestones
- In-depth knowledge of the Blue Yonder TMS SaaS solutions with implementation or upgrade experience
- In-depth knowledge of TMOD and TM (both Optimization and Execution) within Blue Yonder
- Strong understanding of transportation, logistics and supply chain processes
- Proven self-management and project management skills
- Ability to understand business functionality and translate it into application requirements
- Excellent understanding and experience with managing business complexity, project interdependencies, and organization change
- Intellectual curiosity and the ability to question thought partners across functional areas
- Outstanding written, verbal, and visual communication skills
- Proficient in data analysis and problem-solving skills
- Ability to partner with other technical subject matter experts (SMEs)
- Strong understanding of basic system engineering, information risk and security guidelines, and architecture standards
- In-depth understanding of the various software development lifecycles (e.g. Agile, Waterfall, etc.)
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Business area; MBA a plus