Role: Solution Architect / Senior Application Consultant – JDA PMM (Blue Yonder)

Location: Mississauga, ON – Hybrid/Remote

Position Overview

We are looking for an experienced Solution Architect / Senior Application Consultant with strong expertise in JDA PMM (Product & Merchandise Management) to provide functional and technical leadership for an existing retail merchandising environment.

The ideal candidate will be a JDA PMM SME with extensive experience supporting merchandising applications, production environments, business users, integrations, enhancements, upgrades, and solution architecture initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

- Provide end-to-end JDA PMM application support, including incidents, service requests, troubleshooting, problem management, and root cause analysis.
- Act as a functional SME across Item Management, Product Lifecycle Management, Vendor Management, Assortment Management, Pricing & Cost Management, and Category Management.
- Support Merchandise Hierarchies, Product Attributes, Master Data Governance, and related merchandising processes.
- Translate business requirements into scalable solution designs, functional specifications, and architecture documentation.
- Support integrations between JDA PMM and ERP, Supply Chain, POS, Data Warehouse, and Vendor systems.
- Troubleshoot SQL, APIs, ETL processes, interfaces, batch jobs, and data-related issues.
- Support SIT, UAT,



regression testing, production validation, upgrades, patches, and release management.
- Identify opportunities for application optimization, automation, process improvement, and roadmap initiatives.
- Collaborate with business, application, technical, and operational teams to ensure reliable and effective merchandising solutions.

Required Skills & Experience

- 10+ years of enterprise application consulting or solution architecture experience.
- 7+ years of hands-on JDA PMM experience.
- Strong expertise in JDA PMM / Blue Yonder merchandising applications.
- Strong understanding of retail merchandising and retail operations.
- Experience with Item Management, Product Lifecycle, Vendor, Assortment, Pricing, Cost, and Category Management.
- Strong SQL, data analysis, integration, interface, and application support experience.
- Experience integrating merchandising platforms with ERP, POS, Supply Chain, Data Warehouse, and Vendor systems.
- Experience with APIs, ETL, batch processing, application troubleshooting, SIT/UAT, upgrades, and production support.
- Experience with solution design, architecture documentation, impact assessment, and application optimization.
- Blue Yonder/JDA platform, ITIL, cloud migration, TOGAF, or solution architecture certification experience is an asset.

📌 Solution Architect / Senior Application Consultant – JDA PMM (Blue Yonder) (Canada)
🏢 ThoughtStorm
📍 Canada