Solutions Architect

Grainger is hiring for Solutions Architect

Company Overview: Grainger is a leading industrial distributor with operations primarily in North America, Japan, and the United Kingdom. We serve over 4.5 million customers worldwide, providing products through innovative technology and strong customer relationships. With sales of $16.5 billion in 2023, we are committed to delivering value to customers, fostering an engaging culture for team members, and driving strong financial results.

Position Details: The Solutions Architect is a senior technical leader responsible for setting the technology direction within Grainger's North American Supply Chain. This role involves solving challenging business problems through technology, engineering, and leadership. The Solutions Architect collaborates with business functions, product/portfolio managers, other Architects, and technology delivery teams to identify, plan, design, and lead the implementation of technology solutions within the order fulfillment, 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.

Key Responsibilities:

• Gain a deep understanding of Grainger’s Supply Chain business processes and their implementation in Grainger’s systems.
• Advise on project and/or technical product ideas, assessing feasibility, conceptual solution options, impacts on people/process/technology, and high-level costs.
• Create end-to-end architecture designs (conceptual, logical, and physical) for proposed projects/technical products ensuring scalability, fault tolerance, security, and performance according to Grainger’s architecture standards.
• Present 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 trade-offs to the CIO’s leadership team.
• Contribute to Architecture Governance practices, including the creation of technology standards and patterns.
• Research current and emerging technologies, proposing their adoption as needed.

Qualifications:

• 8+ years 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 knowledge of end-to-end warehouse or manufacturing processes and the ability to conceptualize impacts of changes within and across processes.
• Functional application knowledge of SAP S4 EWM, Stock Room Management, and components supporting Supply Chain, with experience running SAP environments in the cloud.
• Proven experience designing custom solutions on SAP BTP and AWS or other cloud ecosystems.
• Ability to articulate architectural trade-offs and present complex technical topics simply 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:

• SAP EWM, SAP WM, SAP S4, AWS, SAP BTP, HANA, shipping label printing technologies, yard management systems, Android OS RF handheld devices, custom 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 offers programs that provide choice to meet team members' individual needs. Benefits include medical, dental, vision, and life insurance, a 6% 401(k) company contribution each pay period, employee discounts, parental leave, and tuition reimbursement.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement: Grainger is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or expression, or veteran status.