IT Solutions Architect,Supply Chain Job Davidson area,North Carolina USA,IT/Tech

BUILD A BETTER CAREER WITH MSC

Serving customers and our community starts with the best people doing their best work. That is precisely what we have created at MSC Industrial Supply Co. We are a leading North American distributor of metalworking and maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO), products and services. We offer more than 2 million products and have over 80 years of experience across dozens of industries.

We aim to execute our Built to Make You Better brand promise for all our stakeholders, including our associates.

Requisition :21288

Employment Type :Full Time

Job Category :Supply Chain

Work Location :Davidson, NC (CSC)

BRIEF

POSITION SUMMARY:

The IT Solutions Architect, Supply Chain is a member of the IT Application Development team who leads the transformation and modernization of MSC’s software landscape. This role translates supply chain business strategy across Warehouse Management & Execution Systems (WMS/WCS/WES), Logistics, Planning and Purchasing into secure, scalable systems. This role guides development of legacy solutions, cloud, package software, and custom solutions from roadmap to delivery.

In this role you will guide AI adoption, guide developers, establish governance and reusable technology patterns; and partner with business, IT engineering, and vendors to implement software solutions, reduce technical debt, accelerate innovation, and deliver measurable business value.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Lead end-to-end IT solution for supply chain initiatives, decomposing business problems into scalable system designs and guiding solutions from concept to go-live and steady state
Define and maintain the system architecture vision, roadmap, reference architecture, standards, governance, stage gates and reusable design patterns; facilitate architecture/design reviews and build-vs-buy decisions
Architect system solutions across multiple platforms WMS, WCS/WES, TMS, planning, inventory, fulfillment, and custom IBM iSeries/AS400 applications
Own integration patterns across IBM iSeries applications, WMS, WCS/WES, ERP, TMS, SAP/S/4

HANA/BTP, Google Cloud, IBM Sterling Integrator, EDI, APIs, middleware, event messaging, file exchange and partner connectivity
Design Microservices and APIs: create microservices, APIs, data models, and integration patterns that support modular, scalable and modern applications.
Provide architectural leadership for warehouse automation systems and robotics, including ASRS, AMR, PLC, Fortna, Auto Store, Exacta, Savoye, iPack, Cubiscan, Plus One, Osaro and related material handling solutions
Ensure reliable data flow across systems; maintain integration frameworks, documentation, data dictionaries and traceability standards
Drive reliability, quality and operational readiness, environment strategy, testing assets, observability, SRE practices, security controls, DR/runbooks, release calendars, incident/problem management and root-cause remediation
Partner with Industrial Engineering, Logistics, Warehouse Operations, Maintenance, IT Operations, IT Security, Data Analytics, and software vendors; communicate effectively with warehouse teams, technical teams and executives
Identify automation opportunities, drive AI adoption, and technical debt reduction while ensuring compliance, and security.
Mentor analysts/developers/architects and share current technology trends
Fosters the MSC Culture in the department and throughout the company to ensure fulfillment of MSC’s vision and unity of purpose
Participation in special projects and performs additional duties as required

QUALIFICATIONS What You Need:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline, or equivalent experience required; master’s preferred
10+ years IT experience with significant…