Job Description

About the Role

We're seeking a highly skilled AWS Technical Architect to lead the end-to-end design and delivery of cloud infrastructure and integration strategies supporting a modern Warehouse Management System (WMS) environment. A critical aspect of the role will involve designing robust, scalable AWS solutions for Blue Yonder Dispatcher WMS 2022, ensuring seamless performance, availability, and integration within our client's technology landscape.

Key Responsibilities

Design and architect secure, scalable, and high-performing AWS solutions tailored to Blue Yonder Dispatcher WMS 2022 requirements.

Collaborate with stakeholders across IT, operations, and external vendors to capture architecture and integration needs

Define best practice infrastructure-as-code templates and CI/CD pipelines for WMS deployments

Lead the design of cloud-native services (e.g. Lambda, ECS, SQS, API Gateway) aligned to operational workflows and warehouse data models.

Ensure alignment with compliance, security, and governance policies

Provide technical leadership across cloud migration, system integration, and WMS digital transformation initiatives

Support configuration and integration strategies to enable real-time communication between Blue Yonder WMS and third-party applications.

Essential Skills & Experience

Proven experience as a Technical Architect designing solutions on AWS within supply chain, logistics, or warehouse domains

Hands-on experience working with or integrating Blue Yonder (JDA) Dispatcher WMS, ideally the 2022 version

Deep knowledge of core AWS services such as Lambda, EC2, S3, RDS, CloudFormation, API Gateway, and IAM

Strong grasp of system integration, microservices, containerisation (Docker, ECS/EKS), and event-driven architecture

Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation) and DevOps practices

Understanding of warehouse operational workflows and WMS data models

Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills

Security Requirement: Due to the nature of this role, candidates must be British citizens and will be required to undergo security clearance vetting as part of the onboarding process.

What you'll get in return

6 Months contract

£(Apply online only) per day rate

Hybrid working available where you are onsite 2-3 days a week

What you need to do now

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