Solution and Functional Architect (SAFA)

Consulting LeadPay Rate Range: $ 60.71 - 62.50/hr. GBaMS ReqID: 10615560Job Description:Essential Skills:Consulting Lead: Translate business goals into a sequenced transformation roadmap (assortment, inventory, forecasting, pricing signals, replenishment adjacencies).Solution Architecture: Own the end-to-end design across process, data, analyticsML, and apps.AILLM Enablement: Frame use cases, evaluation metrics, human-in-the-loop workflows, explainability standards, and productionization patterns.Value Realization: Build business cases, define KPIsOKRs, and track benefits publish monthly value dashboards to leadership.Stakeholder Management: Act as the single point of accountability for GPC leaders coordinate with Internal team and boutique vendors, plus product vendors.Delivery Governance: Run POD rituals, riskissue management, release planning, and dependency orchestration with cross-functional teams.Change Enablement: Drive adoption (playbooks, training, change impacts) across MerchAssortment and Supply Chain operations.Preferred Skills:Retail Client merchandising, clustering, space/planogram awareness, price promo signals.Exposure to Vertex, IBM SPSS legacy transitions, and custom product platforms (e.g., PULSE).Partner ecosystem orchestration (multi-vendor models near/offshore).Certifications:CSCPCPIM (ASCM), PMPPrince2, TOGAF, SAFe, or equivalent.Tools Tech (nice to have): Cloud dataAI stacks (AzureAWSGCP), DatabricksSnowflake, MLflow, Feature Store, API gateways.AnalyticsBI (Power BITableau), AB testing frameworks, observability (logsmetricstraces).Competencies: 6-8+ years experience Solution and Functional Architect (SAFA)