Solutions Architect III

Work Location Type: Hybrid 

As a leading industrial distributor with operations primarily in North America, Japan and the United Kingdom, We Keep The World Working® by serving more than 4.5 million customers worldwide with products delivered through innovative technology and deep customer relationships. With 2023 sales of $16.5 billion, we’re dedicated to providing value for customers, fostering an engaging culture for team members and driving strong financial results.

Our welcoming workplace enables you to learn, grow and make a difference by keeping businesses running and their people safe. As a 2024 Glassdoor Best Place to Work and a Great Place to Work-Certified™ company, we’re looking for passionate people to join our team as we continue leading the industry over our next 100 years.

Position Details:

The Senior Solutions Architect (Supply Chain) is a senior technical leader that sets the technology direction within Grainger’s North American Supply Chain.  We are looking for individuals that can solve challenging business problems through technology, engineering, and leadership.   This role collaborates with business functions, product/portfolio managers, other Architects, and technology delivery teams to identify, plan, design, and lead implementation of technology solutions within the order fulfilment, warehouse operations and yard management domains.  This is a highly technical role requiring deep functional familiarity with the SAP ecosystem, building custom solutions in a cloud environment and integrations with warehouse automation OT technologies.

You will report to the Director, Solutions Architectire. This is a Chicago based role with potential to work remotely.

This position is salaried and will pay between $143,000 - $238,000 plus a 20% Annual Bonus and Stock Incentive Plan. 

The range provided is a guideline and not a guarantee of compensation. Other factors that are involved in offer decisions include, and are not limited to: a candidate's experience, qualifications, geographical area, and internal equity of the team.

You will

• Gain a deep understanding of Grainger’s Supply Chain business process and how they are implemented in Grainger’s systems. 
• Advise on project and\or technical product ideas, determining their feasibility, conceptual solution options, impacts to people\process\technology and high-level costs.  
• Create end to end architecture designs (conceptual, logical, and physical) for the proposed projects\technical products ensuring that those designs meet business requirements and are scalable, fault tolerant, secure, performant and follow Grainger’s architecture standards.    
• Present those designs to Grainger’s Technical Architecture Governance Committee.
• Advise software delivery teams on technical solution details and architecture best practices.
• Maintain domain level architecture documentation including C4 diagrams, technology roadmaps and data products.
• Present domain level technology roadmaps and key architecture tradeoffs to the CIO’s leadership team.
• Contribute to Architecture Governance practices including creation of technology standards and patterns.
• Research current and emerging technologies, and propose their adoption as needed. 

You have:

• 8+ of hands-on experience developing, designing, documenting, and implementing technology solutions according to modern architectural patterns. 
• Bachelor of Science degree in a technical field or equivalent experience. 
• Deep working knowledge of end-to-end warehouse or manufacturing processes and ability to conceptualize impacts of changes within and across processes.
• Deep functional application knowledge of SAP S4 EWM, Stock Room Management and SAP S4 components supporting Supply Chain and how to leverage their new capabilities when transitioning from legacy EWM and ECC systems. 
• Experience running SAP environments in the cloud.
• Proven experience designing custom solutions on SAP BTP and AWS or other cloud ecosystem.
• Ability to reason between technical solution patterns articulating architectural tradeoffs between them.Present a complex technical topic in simple terms to leadership and large audiences. 
• Experience working on teams in a collaborative matrixed organization.  
• Ability to travel up to 10% within North America. 

Technologies in scope Include:

SAP EWM, SAP WM, SAP S4, AWS, SAP BTP, HANA, shipping label printing technologies, yard management system, Android OS RF handheld devices, custom built applications on AWS and SAP BTP, various integration technologies\patterns connecting EWM to SaaS applications, carriers, and warehouse automation (OT) Technologies. 

Rewards and Benefits:

With benefits starting day one, Grainger is committed to your safety, health, and wellbeing. Our programs provide choice to meet our team members' individual needs. Check out some of the rewards available to you at Grainger.

• Benefits starting on day one, including medical, dental vision and life insurance.
• 6% 401(k) company contribution each pay period with no personal contribution required.
• Employee discounts, parental leave, 3:1 match on donations, tuition reimbursement, student loan refinancing, free access to financial counseling, education and more.

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

We are committed to fostering an inclusive, accessible environment that includes both providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities during the application and hiring process as well as throughout the course of one’s employment.  With this in mind, should you need a reasonable accommodation during the application and selection process, please advise us so that we can provide appropriate assistance.

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