Delivery Lead – Transportation Management Solution Architect (High Tech)

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Accenture’s Supply Chain and Operations (SC&O) partners with the world's most powerful platforms to push the boundaries of what technology can enable, empowering new ways of working and transformation at speed. With the largest and most influential tech ecosystem behind us, we play a pivotal role in helping clients accelerate their path to value.

Supply Chain and Operations houses individuals who help clients develop strategies and operating models that integrate planning, procurement, product design, manufacturing, and fulfillment functions within an organization, as well as connect suppliers and customers across the extended supply chain.

The Work:

The Solution architect leads the overall solution design of a customer's Transportation capability, working with the Technical Architect who leads the technical design and delivery. The Solution Architect leads 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

• Lead end-to-end delivery of Blue Yonder TMS implementations and transformations, ensuring high-quality, on-time, and on-budget execution.
• Manage complex, global programs across multi-region deployments, ensuring alignment with client business objectives and logistics strategies.
• Drive delivery excellence frameworks, governance models, and best practices across all TMS engagements.
• Key lead in all aspects of customer journey throughout discovery, design, construction, testing, deployment and hypercare focused on transportation capabilities
• 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
• Build and scale a robust TMS sales pipeline across industries, proactively identifying and shaping new opportunities.
• Lead and support client pursuits, RFP responses, and proposal development, with a strong focus on value articulation and differentiation.
• Drive win conversions by leveraging domain expertise, delivery credentials, and innovative solutioning.
• Provide variety of support to the project team, including quality assurance/design review, environment configuration, batch operations consulting, troubleshooting, and system testing
• Define integration strategies across TMS, WMS, OMS, ERP, and control tower platforms to enable end-to-end supply chain orchestration
• Leverage AI/ML and advanced analytics for intelligent routing, dynamic planning, predictive ETAs, and autonomous logistics execution
• Drive adoption of cloud-based, real-time, and platform-driven TMS architectures
• 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
• Practice Development & Capability Building
• Contribute to scaling a $100M TMS practice, including revenue growth, talent development, and capability expansion

Here's what you need:

• Minimum of 10 years of experience in enterprise level solution design, configuration, deployments, and cloud integrations working with the Blue Yonder Transportation Management Suite or similar platform
• Minimum of 10 years of strong understanding of functional transportation processes and translation of the functional requirements into configuration with the Blue Yonder Transportation Management suite.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years' work experience). If associate’s degree, must have equivalent (minimum 8-year work experience)

Bonus points if you have:

• Experience in business requirements gathering, user story development and translating requirements to development teams
• Experience delivering transportation programs for clients
• Develop reusable assets, accelerators, and industry-specific solutions to industrialize delivery and accelerate implementations
• Mentor and grow global teams of TMS consultants, architects

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We anticipate this job posting will be posted until 08/31/2026.

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