Director, WMS Deployment

PepsiCo Blue Yonder Wms Platform Executive

Embrace the opportunity to lead a significant chapter in PepsiCo's global transformation journey. We are embarking on a landmark initiative to deploy Blue Yonder's Warehouse Management System (WMS) across North America. We're seeking an executive to lead our Blue Yonder WMS Platform team.

Responsibilities

• Platform Strategy and Operating Model
• Define the platform vision, roadmap, and operating model that enables business operations and delivery of projects at scale.
• Establish governance across architecture, integration, data, security, and change management.
• Manage relationship with Blue Yonder and drive financial operations : license management, and platform cost / performance KPIs.
• Development Services
• Run technical estimation, risk assessments, and stage gates.
• Convert functional specs into technical designs.
• Build and maintain reusable components, connectors, and internal packages.
• Maintain reference architectures and reusable patterns for Blue Yonder's WMS and adjacent services.
• Platform Management : Configuration, Code, and Change Control
• Own code and configuration repos, branching strategies, and promotion policies for configuration and code.
• Define and operate environment topology (dev, QA, UAT, perf, prod, etc.), provisioning, refreshes, and data masking / seeding.
• Standardize CI / CD pipelines and quality gates (cutovers, rollbacks), operating change management with proper separation of duty controls and full traceability.
• Enable and maintain platform security standards certificates, keys, etc.
• Manage and remediate cybersecurity platform vulnerabilities.
• Build and maintain release calendars and partner with deployment teams in aligning releases with business deliverables.
• Define, manage and maintain cloud architecture to enable integration of Blue Yonder's SaaS platform with the rest of the PepsiCo ecosystem.
• Work directly with Blue Yonder's support team to enable the platform and business solutions.
• Quality, Reliability, and Observability
• Establish automated testing (unit, integration, E2E, contract, performance, security, accessibility).
• Define and maintain all testing assets (strategies, cases, scripts, etc.) related to the WMS.
• Develop observability tools to enable business support.
• Operations and Service Management
• Lead L3 incident (bug and data fixing / code changes) and problem management.
• Work with Blue Yonder support services to fix data issues, deploy hot fixes and fix product issues / bugs : Open, monitor and close requests, and influence product roadmap as necessary.
• Build tools to enable business support.
• Maintain runbooks for Disaster Recovery, backup / restore, and test / perform recovery processes.
• Ensure platform uptime / SLA adherence.

Compensation & Benefits :

Qualifications

Education : Bachelor's degree in IT, Engineering, or a related field (Advanced degree preferred).

Experience :

Leadership & Soft Skills

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