Functional Architect

Helps the team get better technically, mentors junior associates, and keeps customer success in focus, in particular:

- Pushes the team towards better quality software by constructively pointing out opportunities to reduce complexity and to write cleaner code and more effective tests.
- Helps other team members to come up with simpler, more robust, and more efficient designs.
- Identifies root causes of issues and fixes those rather than their symptoms.
- Actively shares knowledge in their field of expertise, e.g., by contributing to open source software projects, offering training sessions, holding conference presentations, etc.
- Empowers, mentors, and grows less experienced team members, e.g., by sharing knowledge and providing hints so they come up with their own solutions.
- Actively increases awareness of information security among coworkers and demonstrates how to improve vulnerable code.
- Understands customer and consumer value and slices/writes user stories accordingly to deliver value faster.
- Actively shapes team vision and helps shape the team roadmap towards achieving it.

Additions for service-delivering teams
- Designs services to be self-healing and to offer self-service capabilities from the ground up to achieve minimum manual intervention.
- Seeks out the root causes of incidents and inspires improvements in a blameless fashion.
- Strives for smooth migration paths, in particular for breaking changes.
- Diligently collaborates with stakeholders to optimize service selection and usage to minimize costs for derived products.

Secondary

**Responsibilities**:

- Leads by example.
- Participates in team hiring activities.
- Understands the impact of partner enablement on the growth of the company.
- Reflects on how the team works towards delivering value and actively improves processes within their team.
- Translates business requirements to user stories and actively seeks feedback by the stakeholders.
- Supports team management in prioritizing backlog items.
- Quantifies impact and values of features to inform prioritization of issues and secure necessary budgets.
- Considers Blue Yonder design guidelines and consults architects as appropriate.
- Feeds larger refactoring opportunities into the team's backlog.
- Evolves the team’s continuous integration pipeline and fixes broken builds.
- Performs benchmark analyses, identifies hot spots, and derives appropriate measures to improve performance.
- Develops prototypes and proofs of principles for innovative features.
- Reflects on alignment of team vision with company vision.
- Steadily extends their knowledge to identify synergies across domains and speed up time to become an expert in new areas.
- Makes impediments transparent and helps others to overcome theirs.
- Has a deep understanding of the team’s problem domain and interaction points with other teams.
- Timely and proactively communicates impediments to commitments.

Our Values

If you want to know the heart of a company, take a look at their values. Ours unite us. They are what drive our success - and the success of our customers. Does your heart beat like ours? Find out here:
Core Values

Diversity, Inclusion, Value & Equity (DIVE)

is our strategy for fostering an inclusive environment we can be proud of. Check out Blue Yonder's inaugural

Diversity Report

which outlines our commitment to change, and our

video

celebrating the differences in all of us in the words of some of our associates from around the world.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.