BY ESP Solution Architect

Company Overview

Role Overview

Location and Schedule

• The role is based in Hyderabad, India.
• The candidate must work on site four days per week in Hyderabad.
• The role operates during the US Eastern Standard Time zone.

Architecture and Design

• Lead and own end-to-end architecture and design for Blue Yonder ESP solutions.
• Translate business requirements into scalable designs aligned with Blue Yonder's functional framework.
• Define planning models, network design, constraints, and heuristics.
• Interpret solver results to ensure optimized planning quality.

Configuration and Development

• Configure ESP components for supply planning, inventory balancing, pegging, and constraint-based planning.
• Customize ESP engines for supply network models, demand signals, and production capacities.
• Create planning parameters, supply chain hierarchies, and master data elements.
• Configure supply planning, constrained planning, and inventory optimization modules.

Integration and Governance

• Integrate ESP with demand planning, ERP, MRP, MES, and Google Datalake systems.
• Oversee data modeling, master data configuration, and rule-based planning logic.
• Guide implementation teams and technical consultants.
• Review design documents and ensure adherence to Blue Yonder standards and change management protocols.

Collaboration and Support

• Gather requirements with supply chain, manufacturing, and IT stakeholders.
• Conduct design workshops, walkthroughs, and training sessions.
• Act as the primary contact for solution design decisions and issue resolution.
• Identify enhancements, support hypercare and steady-state operations, and contribute to production support documentation.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience in supply chain planning, including at least 5+ years in Blue Yonder ESP architecture or implementation.
• Hands-on Blue Yonder ESP configuration, design, and deployment experience.
• Experience with planning algorithms, pegging, network optimization, MAP solver output, scripting, ERP integration, and data integration tools.
• Excellent communication, leadership, client-facing, analytical, and problem-solving abilities.

Preferred Qualifications

• Blue Yonder ESP or SCPO certification is highly desirable.
• Experience with complex BOM, load-building planning, dynamic deployment, SPARQ solver, global transformation programs, Agile or hybrid methodologies, other Blue Yonder modules, or Anaplan is preferred or advantageous.