Software Engineer III

This role reports to the Engineering Manager in Supply Chain Planning and Technology organisation. This role works closely with business users, engineering teams, and other cross-functional stakeholders to ensure seamless warehouse operations and system performance. The role works on all warehouse management implementations globally.

We are seeking a Warehouse Management Techno-Functional SME with expertise in Manhattan Active WMS and hands-on experience with the ProActive tool. The role involves bridging business needs and technical solutions by designing, customizing, and enhancing warehouse management processes within the Active WMS platform.

The ideal candidate will have:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or IT related discipline or any combination of equivalent relevant education, training and experience
• 5 or more years of software engineering experience.
• Experience for over 3+ years working with Manhattan Active Warehouse Management is required.
• Hands-on experience with the Manhattan ProActive and Config Director tools for creating and managing customizations.
• Proficiency in scripting languages like: FreeMarker, Velocity, Python.
• Strong understanding of warehouse processes and workflows.
• Proven experience in customization, testing, and deployment of WMS enhancements.
• Experience reading and writing SQL
• Experience with API, XML, and integration frameworks.
• Experience in writing automation tests
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Great communication skills (oral and written) and ability to work independently or in group settings as needed.

The following qualifications are preferred, but not required:

• Writing and modifying of shell/python scripts for automation of systems, applications and backups. Knowledge and experience on DevOps concepts, tools and technologies like Cucumber, Chef, Ansible, Puppet, Docker, AWS, GIT etc.
• Experience on an object-oriented language like Java, C#, C++ etc.
• Familiarity with cloud-native architectures and Manhattan Active architecture is highly desirable.
• Experience with other warehouse management systems such as Manhattan WMOS, JDA, HighJump, and SAP.

WHAT YOU'LL WORK ON

Key Responsibilities:

• Act as the SME for Manhattan Active WMS with a focus on ProActive tool-based customizations.
• Design, develop, and deploy ProActive customizations to extend and optimize Active WMS functionality.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to gather, analyze, and document WMS requirements.
• Perform technical analysis, configuration, testing, and deployment within Active WMS.
• Work closely with Nike engineering and business teams on interfaces, APIs, and data flows between WMS and other supply chain systems.
• Lead testing, documentation, and training for custom-built solutions.
• Ensure solutions follow best practices, scalability, and upgrade compatibility within the Manhattan Active environment.
• Defines test scenarios based on business processes and may participate in integration testing when needed.
• Conducts usability User Acceptance Tests (UAT) with business teams.
• Support production distribution centers (DC) in incident management, problem management, minor enhancements, change management, and documentation.
• Implementation of Active WM in new DCs and implementing new WMS capabilities for existing DCs.
• Program Increment Planning, Story Refinement and Estimation.
• Spikes, Detailed Design, Build and Test.
• Integration Build and E2E Tests.
• Scrums And Associated Sprint Ceremonies.
• Knowledge transfer to production support after each implementation.
• Resolve escalated tickets, performance problems and create Root Cause Analysis (RCA) document on Severity level issues.