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

Canada
Remote
Posted Sep 24, 2026
1 position

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Employment type: Contract
Experience level: Lead · 10+ years
Apply by: Oct 18, 2026
Posting language: English
Working hours: 40 hours per week
Location requirements: Country, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Seniority: Mid-Senior level
Application method: Direct apply is available

Job summary

The Senior Solution Architect will serve as a subject matter expert providing functional support, solution design, and troubleshooting for JDA Space and Floor Planning applications. They will also lead requirements analysis, system integrations, and application modernization initiatives to support enterprise retail operations.

Job details

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. • Strong 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.

What you’ll do

Requirements

Candidates must have 10+ years of experience in retail application consulting with deep expertise in JDA Space and Floor Planning. Strong proficiency in translating business requirements into technical designs and managing complex retail data environments is essential.