Principal Solution Engineer Supply & Demand

What You Need To Know

Open the door to a groundbreaking tech career with an industry leader. Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits is North America’s preeminent wine and spirits distributor, as well as a family-owned, privately held company with a 50+ year legacy of success. To create a new era in alcohol beverage sales and service, we’re heavily invested in the most transformative new technologies – and the most brilliant tech professionals. Southern Glazer’s was named by Newsweek as a Most Loved Workplace and is included on the Forbes lists for Largest Private Companies and Best Employers for Diversity.

As a full-time employee, you can choose from a full menu of our Top Shelf Benefits, including comprehensive medical and prescription drug coverage, dental and vision plans, tax-saving Flexible Spending Accounts, disability coverage, life insurance plans, and a 401(k) plan. We also offer tuition reimbursement, a wellness program, parental leave, vacation accrual, paid sick leave, and more.

We offer continuous learning and career growth in a fast-paced environment where you are respected, your voice is heard, and technology is part of our strategy for success. If you’re looking to fill your glass with opportunity, come join our FAMILY.

Overview

The Principal Solution Engineer analyzes, develops, modifies, installs, tests, and maintains the JDA Software. Possesses a strong understanding of JDA SCPO, Demand, Fulfillment, Order optimization, and Reporting. Evaluate vendor-supplied software packages for fit and performance, make recommendations to IT management. Monitors system capacity and performance and provides Tier Two technical support.

Specialized Skills and Technologies

Required skills:

• Python
• MLOps in AWS
• SQL
• Familiarity with AWS products, Lambda, S3, etc.
• Amazon Sagemaker proficiency
• Time Series analysis with machine learning models

Preferred experience:

• Supply chain background
• Demand and Supply planning domain

Primary Responsibilities

• Serve in a team leader capacity with large-scale Application Development projects/programs
• Lead and direct offshore application development programs
• Maintain a working knowledge of Software Code Development leading practices and serve as a thought leader to the SGWS organization
• Facilitate Code Development / Engineering training and education programs for the IT team
• Provide coaching and development to more junior Application Developers
• Oversee the work of 3rd party Development teams
• Drive the collection of the required information to develop work scope around solutions to attain business requirements along with data needs as required
• Serve as liaison between Divisions/Functions and IT on projects and enhancements
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned

Additional Primary Responsibilities

• Communicate project risks that may have a negative impact on the project schedule, scope, or budget
• Escalate project issues that surface and cannot be quickly resolved which will have an impact on the project schedule, scope, or budget
• Design and implement architecturally compliant system landscapes
• Make recommendations to enhance processes, procedures, and policies relating to systems functioning or performance
• Monitor systems capacity and performance and provide Tier Two technical support
• Mentor and coach others
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or a combination of work experience and education
• Five (5)+ years in application development or comparable experience
• Experience working with, and directing third-party Application Development teams
• Experience leading and supporting teams with large-scale Application Development projects/programs
• Extensive experience across the entire project life cycle (SDLC) – be it implementing new software or enhancing existing functionality
• Experience with interfaces into and from platforms (using APIs, ESB, SAP PI, etc.
• Participate in Agile teams
• Drive Behavior-Driven-Design (BDD) process
• Excellence in communicating and presenting complex information to technical and non-technical stakeholders

Physical Demands

• Physical demands include a considerable amount of time sitting and typing/keyboarding, using a computer (e.g., keyboard, mouse, and monitor), or adding machine
• Physical demands with activity or condition may occasionally include walking, bending, reaching, standing, squatting, and stooping
• May require occasional lifting/lowering, pushing, carrying, or pulling up to 20lbs

EEO Statement

Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits, an Affirmative Action/EEO employer, prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. SGWS complies with all federal, state and local laws concerning consideration of a qualified applicant's arrest and/or criminal conviction records. Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits provides competitive compensation based on estimated performance level consistent with the past relevant experience, knowledge, skills, abilities and education of employees. Unless otherwise expressly stated, any pay ranges posted here are estimates from outside of Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits and do not reflect Southern Glazer's pay bands or ranges.