Grainger

Solutions Architect III

Grainger

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Lake Forest • Illinois • United States

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Salary

💰 $146,200 - $243,600 per year

About the role

  • Serve as the primary solution architect for distribution center operations by creating end-to-end solution designs for initiatives, ensuring alignment with broader Supply Chain architecture direction and accounting for impacts to process, people, data, and technology.
  • Define the future-state target architecture and transition roadmap for distribution center operations, including process, platforms, automation, integration, and information flow.
  • Design and govern integrations between SAP EWM and surrounding systems such as WES, OT control systems, TMS, YMS, fulfillment planning, and analytics platforms.
  • Evaluate architectural options and recommend where functionality should reside, including EWM standard capabilities, clean-core extensions, and complementary COTS or custom-built services.
  • Ensure solutions meet requirements for resiliency, scalability, security, and operational stability.
  • Provide architectural leadership and mentorship to EWM business analysts and delivery teams.
  • Promote modern architecture practices including event-driven and API-based information flows and domain-aligned data products to enable operational execution, real-time visibility, and analytics.
  • Communicate architectural options and trade-offs to architecture and engineering teams, and present major decisions and investment considerations to the CIO and Supply Chain leadership.
  • Collaborate with product managers and distribution operations leaders to identify process and data flow improvements that advance business objectives.
  • Work with project and product portfolio managers and delivery teams to ensure solutions are feasible, delivered on time, adhere to standards, and advance the domain roadmap.

Requirements

  • Deep, hands-on SAP EWM on S/4HANA expertise in complex distribution center operations.
  • Strong architectural judgment with a proven ability to evaluate trade-offs and recommend solutions across standard capabilities, extensions, and complementary platforms.
  • Strong practical knowledge of distribution center operations, especially in highly automated warehouses and hybrid human/automation environments.
  • Working knowledge of integration design using APIs and event-driven architecture; ability to reason about synchronous vs asynchronous patterns and operational latency/throughput needs.
  • Familiarity with data modeling and designing domain-aligned data products that support operational visibility and analytics.
  • Ability to think beyond a single system and understand the role each system plays in the distribution center ecosystem.
  • Strong communication skills, including leading requirements and design workshops and influencing both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Proven ability to mentor and guide SAP technical teams.
  • Familiarity with SAP clean-core principles and domain-driven design.
  • Growth mindset with continuous learning orientation.
Benefits
  • Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans with coverage starting on day one of employment and 6 free sessions each year with a licensed therapist to support your emotional wellbeing.
  • 18 paid time off (PTO) days annually for full-time employees (accrual prorated based on employment start date) and 6 company holidays per year.
  • 6% company contribution to a 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan each pay period, no employee contribution required.
  • Employee discounts, tuition reimbursement, student loan refinancing and free access to financial counseling, education, and tools.
  • Maternity support programs, nursing benefits, and up to 14 weeks paid leave for birth parents and up to 4 weeks paid leave for non-birth parents.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
SAP EWMS/4HANAintegration designAPIsevent-driven architecturedata modelingdomain-aligned data productsautomationfulfillment planninganalytics
Soft Skills
architectural judgmentcommunication skillsmentorshipcollaborationinfluencing stakeholdersproblem-solvingleadershipcontinuous learningprocess improvementdesign workshops