Sr. Solutions Architect

Work Location Type:Hybrid

About Grainger:

W.W. Grainger, Inc., is a leading broad line distributor with operations primarily in North America, Japan and the United Kingdom. At Grainger, We Keep the World Working by serving more than 4.5 million customers worldwide with products and solutions delivered through innovative technology and deep customer relationships. Known for its commitment to service and award-winning culture, the Company had 2024 revenue of $17.2 billion across its two business models. In the High-Touch Solutions segment, Grainger offers approximately 2 million maintenances, repair and operating (MRO) products and services, including technical support and inventory management. In the Endless Assortment segment,Zoro.comoffers customers access to more than 14 million products, andMonotaRO.comoffers more than 24 million products. For more information, visitwww.grainger.com.

Compensation

The anticipated base pay compensation range for this position is$143,000.00 to$238,400.00.

Rewards and Benefits:

With benefits starting on day one, our programs provide choice and flexibility to meet team members' individual needs, including:

• 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.

For additional information and details regarding Grainger's benefits, please click on the link below:

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The pay range provided above is not a guarantee of compensation. The range reflects the potential base pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual base pay compensation will depend, in part, on factors such as geographic work location and relevant experience and skills.

The anticipated compensation range described above is subject to change and the compensation ultimately paid may be higher or lower than the range described above.

Grainger reserves the right to amend, modify, or terminate its compensation and benefit programs in its sole discretion at any time, consistent with applicable law.

Grainger is seeking a Senior Solutions Architect to lead the design and implementation of technology solutions within our North American Supply Chain. This high-impact role requires an experienced SAP technical leader that can solve complex business problems through technology in the Order Management, Warehouse Operations, and Yard Management domains. We are looking for a leader that can collaborate closely with business teams and product/portfolio managers on solutions, while evangelizing modern SAP and architecture approaches across technology teams.

You will report to the Director, Solutions Architect and work out of our Chicago office. Remote work is possible with travelUp to 10% within North America

You Will:

Design Solutions

• Gain a deep understanding of Grainger's Order Management and Warehouse Operations business processes and how they are implemented across Grainger's systems.

• Advise on process improvement ideas, determining their feasibility, conceptual solution options, impacts to people, process, data, technology, and high-level costs.

• Create end-to-end process and system (conceptual, logical, physical) designs for technology solutions, ensuring alignment with business requirements and adherence to Grainger's architecture standards.

• Present those designs to the Technical Architecture Governance Committee and Grainger leadership.

• Lead the design of Supply Chain's data products, events and APIs to enable broader information sharing across Grainger and our partners.

Provide technical leadership

• Reason between various technical approaches, their benefits, and implications including adoption of SAP BTP vs. custom product development.

• Develop architectural patterns within our SAP ecosystem and advise on best integration approaches between SAP and non-SAP technologies.

• Advise software delivery teams on technical solution details and architecture best practices.

• Document and present domain roadmaps (technology, process and data) and key architecture tradeoffs to the CIO's leadership team.

• Research current and emerging technologies, and propose their adoption as needed.

Collaborate

• Work closely with cross-functional teams (business functions, product managers, architects, and technology delivery teams) to identify process and data flow improvements and design solutions that meet business objectives.

• Evangelize SAP best practices across our technology organization.

• Communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders in a clear, concise manner.

You Have:

Technical Expertise:

• In-depth knowledge of warehouse operations or manufacturing processes and ability to conceptualize impacts of changes across processes.

• Extensive functional knowledge of SAP S/4 EWM, Stock Room Management, and SAP S/4 components supporting the Supply Chain.

• In-depth knowledge of SAP S/4 Order Management (SD) and MM modules

• Familiarity with components of the BTP platform

• Knowledge of application integration (Events, APIs, OData, IDOCS) and data extraction patterns within the SAP ecosystem.

• Familiarity with data modeling, event-based systems, and API design (OData).

Architectural Skills

• Ability to lead business requirements and process mapping sessions across system boundaries and transition them to system designs.

• Ability to reason between technical solution patterns, articulating architectural trade-offs between them.

• Ability to create and communicate roadmaps, including articulation of reasons for and implications of changes.

• Strong ability to collaborate and influence within a matrixed organization and work with cross-functional teams to drive solutions.

• Familiarity with modern architecture practices e.g. domain driven design, event driven architecture, data products, security and networking concepts is a plus.

Education and Continuous Learning

• A growth mindset with a strong desire to continuously learn new technologies, methodologies, and soft skills to stay current in the rapidly evolving tech landscape.

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field preferred.

Technologies in scope Include:

• Core Technologies: SAP EWM, SAP WM, SAP S/4 HANA, SAP BTP (Integration Suite and other components), Warehouse Execution System, Label printers, yard management systems, RF handheld devices, integration middleware, Snowflake, Databricks, Astronomer.

• Additional Technologies: Kafka, AWS SDK for SAP ABAP, warehouse automation (OT) technologies, application monitoring solutions e.g. AppDynamics, DataDog., containerized applications.

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