Job Title: Transportation Management System Architect with Blue Yonder
Location: REMOTE
Experience Required: 10 to 15 years
Client: TechM
Job Summary:
We are seeking an experienced Blue Yonder Transportation Management System (TMS) Architect / Solution Lead to lead end-to-end transportation transformation programs, solution architecture, implementation, rollout, and support engagements.
The candidate will act as the solution owner for Blue Yonder TMS initiatives and work closely with business stakeholders, logistics teams, carriers, supply chain leadership, and technical teams to design scalable transportation solutions across global operations. The role involves transportation planning, optimization, carrier management, freight execution, visibility, integration architecture, and digital transformation initiatives
Responsibilities
- Act as the SME for Blue Yonder TMS, focusing on order management, planning/optimization, tendering, execution, and freight audit & pay.
- Translate business requirements into configurations, including routing guides, rate tables, business rules, carrier setup, and user roles.
- Lead functional testing for upgrades, patches, and periodic releases.
- Maintain functional design documents, configuration specifications, and process flows.
- Design and support EDI end to end, building and maintaining EDI transaction sets used across TMS operations (204, 990, 214, 210, 810, 997).
- Own trading partner onboarding, including spec review, mapping, testing, and go live for new carriers and customers.
- Troubleshoot transaction failures and mapping errors across VAN, AS2, SFTP, and API connections.
- Collaborate with integration teams to resolve issues between TMS, ERP, WMS, and partner systems.
- Drive testing quality by leading or supporting SIT, UAT, and Day in the Life (DITL) testing cycles with an EDI specific lens.
- Write test scripts covering standard, edge case, and exception flows.
- Validate mappings, acknowledgments (997/999), and end to end reconciliation.
- Own defect triage and root cause analysis through go live and hypercare.
- Provide L2/L3 support for TMS and EDI incidents within SLA.
- Monitor transaction queues and error logs, proactively addressing failures before they escalate.
- Advocate for automation and standardization to reduce manual exception handling.
- Serve as the connective expert between business users, IT, and external partners on all TMS/EDI matters.
Mandatory Skills
- Proven expertise in Blue Yonder TMS.
- Strong knowledge of EDI standards and transaction sets.
- Experience in configuration, integration, and support of TMS systems.
- Ability to translate complex business requirements into technical specifications.
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