Location: Atlanta, GA (Onsite)
Duration: 12 months contract
Job Description:
Solution and Functional Architect (SAFA)
Essential Skills: Consulting Lead
- Translate business goals into a sequenced transformation roadmap (assortment, inventory, forecasting, pricing signals, replenishment adjacencies).
- Solution Architecture Own the end-to-end design across process, data, analytics ML, and apps.
- AILLM Enablement Frame use cases, evaluation metrics, human-in-the-loop workflows, explainability standards, and product ionization patterns.
- Value Realization Build business cases, define KPIsOKRs, and track benefits publish monthly value dashboards to leadership.
- Stakeholder Management Act as the single point of accountability for GPC leaders coordinate with Internal team and boutique vendors, plus product vendors.
- Delivery Governance Run POD rituals, risk issue management, release planning, and dependency orchestration with cross-functional teams.
- Change Enablement Drive adoption (playbooks, training, change impacts) across Merch Assortment and Supply Chain operations.
Preferred Skills:
· Retail CPG merchandising, clustering, space/planogram awareness, price promo signals.
· Exposure to Vertex, IBM SPSS legacy transitions, and custom product platforms (e.g., PULSE).
· Partner ecosystem orchestration (multi-vendor models near/offshore).
· Certifications CSCPCPIM (ASCM), PMPPrince2, TOGAF, SAFe, or equivalent.
· Tools Tech (nice to have)Cloud data AI stacks (Azure, AWS, GCP), Databricks Snowflake, MLflow, Feature Store, API gateways.
· Analytics BI (Power BI Tableau), AB testing frameworks, observability (logs metrics traces).
Education: At least a bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience) in Computer Science, Software/Electronics Engineering, Information Systems, or closely related field is required.
Thanks & Regards
Jyothi S
ITech US, Inc,
