Accenture

Functional Manager – Transportation Management Solution Architect (High Tech)

Accenture$87K — $213K *
Transportation
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years in enterprise level solution design and cloud integrations, especially with Blue Yonder Transportation Management Suite or similar platform.
  • Strong understanding of functional transportation processes and translating requirements into configurations with Blue Yonder.
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent (10 years' experience); Associate's degree with 6 years' experience considered relevant.
  • Experience in business requirements gathering and developing user stories is a plus.
  • Familiarity with integration technologies (WEB/REST/SOAP Services, Mulesoft, ETL/APIs) is a bonus.
  • Background in unit, system integration, and functional testing desirable.

Responsibilities

  • Lead customer journey from discovery to deployment focusing on transportation capabilities.
  • Design and integrate future state solutions using Blue Yonder's suite and complementary products.
  • Facilitate customer change management with industry best practices and methodologies.
  • Develop custom solutions to meet unique customer requirements that out-of-box options cannot fulfill.
  • Act as the solution owner and participate in critical meetings with project stakeholders.
  • Support project team with QA, design reviews, system configuration, and troubleshooting.
  • Guide user acceptance testing and conduct training sessions as project needs arise.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Life and long-term disability insurance.
  • 401(k) retirement plan with bonus opportunities.
  • Generous paid holidays and paid time off.
Full Job Description

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

  • Key lead in all aspects of customer journey throughout discovery, design, construction, testing, deployment and hypercare focused on transportation capabilities

  • Lead functional design and integration of future state capabilities using a suite of products, to include Blue Yonder Transportation Planning, Transportation Modeling, Load Builder, BY Network, Platform and BY TMS as well as a variety of other complimentary solutions

  • 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

  • Provide variety of support to the project team, including quality assurance/design review, environment configuration, batch operations consulting, troubleshooting, and system testing

  • 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

Here's what you need:

  • Minimum of 5 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 5 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 10 years' work experience). If Associate’s Degree, must have equivalent (minimum 6-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

  • Familiarity with integration technologies WEB/REST/SOAP Services, Mulesoft, ETL/APIs

  • Unit, system integration and functional testing experience


Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired as set forth below.
We anticipate this job posting will be posted until 08/31/2026.

Accenture offers a market competitive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, and long-term disability coverage, a 401(k) plan, bonus opportunities, paid holidays, and paid time off. See more information on our benefits here:


Role Location Annual Salary Range
California $94,400 to $266,300
Cleveland $87,400 to $213,000
Colorado $94,400 to $230,000
District of Columbia $100,500 to $245,000
Illinois $87,400 to $230,000
Maine $80,400 to $196,000
Maryland $94,400 to $230,000
Massachusetts $94,400 to $245,000
Minnesota $94,400 to $230,000
New York $87,400 to $266,300
New Jersey $100,500 to $266,300
Virginia $87,400 to $245,000
Washington $100,500 to $245,000

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Accenture plc is a multinational professional services company that provides services in strategy, consulting, digital, technology, and operations. The company has more than 537,000 employees serving clients in more than 120 countries. Accenture operates across five business segments: Communications, Media & Technology; Financial Services; Health & Public Service; Products; and Resources. The company is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, and has offices worldwide.
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