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.

• Solid 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