Senior JDA / Blue Yonder Solution Architect – Space & Floor Planning

Position Overview

We are looking for a Senior Solution Architect / Application Consultant with extensive retail planning and merchandising application experience, particularly with JDA Space Planning and JDA Floor Planning. The ideal candidate will serve as a senior SME and trusted advisor, providing functional application support, solution design, troubleshooting, enhancements, requirements analysis, integrations, and application modernization guidance.

Key Requirements & Responsibilities

- 10+ years of experience in retail application consulting, retail planning, merchandising systems, or a closely related domain.
- Strong hands-on experience with JDA Space Planning and JDA Floor Planning in enterprise retail environments.
- Strong knowledge of Micro Space, Macro Space, Planograms, Fixtures, Store Layouts, Departments, Selling Areas, and Space Allocation.
- Experience supporting enterprise retail applications in production, including complex issue troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, enhancements, and continuous improvement.
- Ability to gather business requirements and translate them into functional requirements, solution designs, workflows, and implementation approaches.
- Experience analyzing application integrations,



data flows, interfaces, upstream/downstream dependencies, APIs, databases, and enterprise integration environments.
- Strong understanding of the interaction between Space Planning, Floor Planning, Assortment Planning, Planogram, and Merchandising applications.
- Ability to assess whether issues are related to configuration, data, integrations, application behavior, or business processes and recommend practical solutions.
- Experience working directly with business stakeholders, technology teams, developers, analysts, and delivery teams in requirements workshops, design reviews, testing, defect triage, and production support.
- Experience contributing to application modernization, migration, future-state architecture, cloud transformation, or legacy application replacement initiatives.
- Robust ability to evaluate enhancement requests and recommend configuration, customization, process, or architectural solutions based on feasibility, risk, maintainability, and business value.
- JDA / Blue Yonder product experience or certification, large-scale retail experience, multi-store/multi-format environments, and CAD/AutoCAD or store-layout data experience are considered assets.

📌 Senior JDA / Blue Yonder Solution Architect – Space & Floor Planning (Mississauga)
🏢 ThoughtStorm
📍 Mississauga