Technical Architect

Helps the team get better technically, mentors junior associates, and keeps customer success in focus.

• Identify and model optimization problems across different business units, focusing on LP, MILP, combinatorial optimization, and scheduling.
• Design and implement robust optimization algorithms, including both classical methods and advanced heuristic and metaheuristic techniques such as genetic algorithms, simulated annealing, tabu search, and particle swarm optimization.
• Evaluate and select appropriate non-commercial (e.g., COIN-OR, SCIP) and commercial solvers (e.g., Gurobi, CPLEX) for specific problems, customizing and extending as necessary.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business challenges into quantitative models, offering innovative solutions that leverage optimization techniques.
• Perform data analysis and statistical validation of models and solutions, ensuring accuracy and efficacy.
• Keep abreast of the latest developments in optimization and computational intelligence, incorporating these advancements into problem-solving strategies.
• Document and communicate methodologies, solutions, and impacts of optimization projects to a diverse audience, including technical reports and presentations.
• Collaborate with stakeholders and cross functional teams to understand business needs and translate them into technical requirements and architectural designs.
• Define the design, architectural and engineering patterns / standard for the team to follow.
• Involve actively in architecture and code reviews and provids feedback to ensure software quality and its compliance to architectural patterns and guidelines.
• Work closely with project managers, lead engineers, functional analysts, and other stakeholders to define project scope, priorities, estimates and timelines.
• Drive the adoption of cloud-native architectures and microservices-based solutions.
• Identify and mitigate technical risks and challenges throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Develop and/or contribute towards proof-of-concept work, as and when needed.
• Create and maintain documentation related to architecture, design, and other technical artifacts.
• Own the Non-functional requirements and outcomes like (but not limited to) Observability, Scalability, Reliability and Performance.
• Push the team towards better quality software by constructively pointing out opportunities to reduce complexity and to write cleaner code and more effective tests.
• Actively promote best practices
• Help other team members to come up with simpler, more robust, and more efficient designs and code.
• Identify root causes of issues and fixes those rather than their symptoms.
• Actively share knowledge in their field of expertise, e.g., by contributing to open source software projects, offering training sessions, holding conference presentations, etc.
• Empower, mentor, and grow less experienced team members, e.g., by sharing knowledge and providing hints so they come up with their own solutions.
• Design services to be self-healing and to offer self-service capabilities from the ground up to achieve minimum manual intervention.

• Leads by example.
• Participates in team hiring activities.
• Drive the junior developers in the team towards the defined technical goals
• Understands the impact of partner enablement on the growth of the company.
• Reflects on how the team works towards delivering value and actively improves processes within their team.
• Becomes a subject matter expert in one or more product areas.
• Translates business requirements to user stories and actively seeks feedback by the stakeholders.
• Supports team management in prioritizing backlog items.
• Quantifies impact and values of features to inform prioritization of issues and secure necessary budgets.
• Considers Blue Yonder design guidelines and consults architects as appropriate.
• Feeds larger refactoring opportunities into the teams backlog.
• Evolves the team s continuous integration pipeline and fixes broken builds.
• Performs benchmark analyses, identifies hot spots, and derives appropriate measures to improve performance.
• Develops prototypes and proofs of principles for innovative features.
• Reflects on alignment of team vision with company vision.
• Steadily extends their knowledge to identify synergies across domains and speed up time to become an expert in new areas.
• Makes impediments transparent and helps others to overcome theirs.
• Has a deep understanding of the team s problem domain and interaction points with other teams.

Timely and proactively communicates impediments to commitments.

Our Values

If you want to know the heart of a company, take a look at their values. Ours unite us. They are what drive our success - and the success of our customers. Does your heart beat like oursFind out here: Core Values

Diversity, Inclusion, Value Equity (DIVE) is our strategy for fostering an inclusive environment we can be proud of. Check out Blue Yonders inaugural Diversity Report which outlines our commitment to change, and our video celebrating the differences in all of us in the words of some of our associates from around the world.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.