Technical Architect / Practice Manager - WMS

About the Company :

Headquartered in California, U.S.A., GSPANN provides consulting and IT services to global clients. We help clients transform how they deliver business value by helping them optimize their IT capabilities, practices, and operations with our experience in retail, high-technology, and manufacturing. With five global delivery centers and 1900+ employees, we provide the intimacy of a boutique consultancy with the capabilities of a large IT services firm.

Role: Practice Manager / Architect - WMS

Experience: 12+ Yrs

Work Location: Gurugram / Noida / Pune / Hyderabad / Bangalore

Skills: Manhattan WMS, Java / J2EE, JavaScript, Velocity, REST/SOAP, Retail/E-commerce Domain Experience

Role & responsibilities

• Act as SPOC for the solutions/ applications being developed interacting with client
• Participate in scoping, estimating efforts etc.
• Collaborate in coming up with milestone plans, key deliverables, assumptions, commercials, and dependencies etc.
• Collaborate and develop WMS strategy that encompasses the goals of a client.
• Drive solution architecture, design and maintain efficient, reusable, and customizations
• Take critical technical decisions to meet client expectation.
• Define best practices and standards.
• Define code review process for the team to follow and perform code reviews for customizations
• Ensure that team maintains high level of technical competence.
• Thought leadership - identify business problems and come up with ideas to build solutions & frameworks to offer to various clients and monetize
• Generate and execute skill building plans
• Assist in hiring right talent to organization
• Motivate and mentor team members.
• Contribute to white papers, blogs
• Contribute to Pres-Sales Activities
• Contribute to Practice related Activities.

Preferred candidate profile

• 12+ years of experience WMS (like Manhattan WMS, Blue Yonder etc.) and Java / J2EE, JavaScript, Velocity.
• Experience in Manhattan WMS is mandatory.
• Lead the implementation of Manhattan WMS modules, configuring them to support various warehouse processes such as receiving, picking, packing, shipping, and inventory management.
• Customize the WMS to accommodate specific business rules, workflows, and integrations with other systems.
• Strong knowledge on WMS inbound/outbound processes.
• Strong understanding on Manhattan WMS integration with other systems like ERP/MHE(Material Handling Equipment)/ProShip.
• Experience on Manhattan Active & Proactive tool is added advantage.
• Experience in web services (REST & SOAP).
• Very strong experience in designing medium to large enterprise applications
• Should have knowledge on messaging systems (Kafka, MQ, Rabbit MQ, JMS etc.),
• Exposure to Authentication, Authorization, SSO using JWT, OAuth, SAML is required.
• Experience in Pre-Sales - defining end to end solution architecture covering technical, deployment architectures and non-functional & performance aspects and drive proposals.
• Experience in Retail - Ecommerce domain is required.
• Experience in code refactoring and performance tuning of application.
• Very strong implementation experience using Test Driven Development, Domain Driven Design, and clean code principles.
• Should have client facing experience and having worked in matrix organization & onsite-offshore model.
• Experience in using estimation techniques like (Use-case, FP, Story points).
• Experience in creating presentations, demos to customers and internal management team.
• Experience in Agile execution methodology is mandatory.
• Should have excellent verbal, written communication, and presentation skills.
• Experience in Practice related Activities like Develop POC, Accelerators development, Tools/Framework/Platform evaluation, contribution to Marketing collaterals.