Solution Architect - Forecasting & Replenishment

Job Description

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• Fixed term contract of 12 months
• Hybrid ways of working - 3 days from office

As we build our independent supply chain capabilities, the Solution Architect - Forecasting & Replenishment will lead the technical strategy, discovery, and evaluation of modern demand planning and inventory replenishment solutions. This role acts as the primary architectural authority for this critical domain, driving platform-agnostic options analysis and ensuring the selected solution seamlessly integrates with our target state, including the broader ERP rollout.

The architect will provide critical guidance from initial discovery through to implementation, defining integration blueprints, mapping complex data flows, and maintaining end-to-end solution integrity across the supply chain ecosystem. This role requires deep expertise in forecasting logic, inventory optimization, and replenishment processes, combined with the ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced, multi-vendor environment to align business value with sustainable technology outcomes.

Sound good? Read on.

Here is a taster of what you can expect in this role:

Leadership & Continuous Improvement

• Mentorship: Provide technical leadership and guidance to the internal tech teams during the Replenishment evaluation and ongoing ERP rollout. 

• Market Awareness: Stay current on Supply Chain technology trends .

Architectural Leadership & Collaborative Decision Making

• Architecture-Led Discovery: Lead the technical discovery phase of new initiatives by facilitating workshops with cross-functional teams to uncover requirements, identify constraints, and challenge assumptions.

• Option Analysis & Recommendation: Critically evaluate multiple technical pathways, documenting the trade-offs, costs, and risks of each to provide a clear, value-based recommendation.

• Decisive Problem Solving: Act as a "decider" in complex technical debates; possess the ability to listen empathetically to diverse stakeholder views while maintaining the authority to make firm, evidence-based architectural decisions that keep the project moving.

• Value-Driven Design: Ensure every architectural decision is anchored in business value—optimizing for speed-to-market, cost-efficiency, or operational simplicity as the situation demands.

• Negotiation & Influence: Navigate conflicting priorities between business desire and technical feasibility, using data and architectural principles to influence stakeholders toward the most sustainable long-term solution.

Qualifications

Now let’s talk about you: 

• Supply Chain & Forecasting: Exceptional, hands-on experience and functional knowledge in Retail Supply Chain technologies, specifically Forecasting and Replenishment systems.

• ERP Integration: Extensive proven experience supporting large-scale ERP programs from a Retail architecture perspective.

• RFP & Options Analysis: Demonstrated ability to critically evaluate vendor solutions, draft high-quality architectural options papers, and present definitive recommendations.

• Governance Navigation: Deep experience partnering directly with vendors on system design and successfully navigating those designs through an Architecture Review Board (ARB).

• The "Influential Architect": Ability to lead discovery workshops, facilitate technical trade-off discussions, and drive consensus among diverse stakeholders.

• Strategic Communication: Ability to pivot communication styles - discussing API specs with developers one hour and presenting high-level value to Business Leads the next.

• Decisiveness: A history of making firm architectural decisions, backed by logic, data, and a focus on long-term maintainability.

• Experience working in agile, product-led delivery environments

Desirable

• Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related technical discipline.

• Architecture Frameworks: Strong working knowledge of TOGAF or similar frameworks, with the ability to apply these principles pragmatically within an Agile delivery environment.

• Agile Methodology: Familiarity with SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) or Scrum, specifically the role of architectural runway in supporting sprint-based delivery.

Platform & Technical Certifications

• Enterprise Platforms: SAP: Certifications in SAP S/4HANA 

• Supplychain Platforms; : Experience in Supply Chain platforms such as O9, Relex , SAP 

Tooling & Documentation

• Architecture Modeling: Proficiency with modern, data-driven architecture tools (ideally Ardoq) to maintain living documentation, map dependencies, and visualize the impact of change across the store services landscape.

• Visual Documentation: Skill in using LucidChart, or similar tools to create clear sequence diagrams, patterns, and system boundary maps.

The benefits are good too! 

• An exclusive discount card for our ALH Hotels pubs & accommodation, BWS, Dan Murphy’s and other Endeavour Group brands. Through our partnership with Woolworths, you'll also enjoy discounts at Woolies supermarkets and BIG W 
• As a valued member of the team, your health and wellbeing is our top priority. You will have access to a range of free services to help you live well and support your physical, mental and financial wellbeing
• Endeavour Group is full of opportunities - use our dedicated learning and development options to grow an idea, yourself, and your career. This is just the start, so dream big
• Find out more about our range of benefits and discounts here

At Endeavour, we value being a workplace where everyone’s welcome - if you meet a number of the requirements (and not all), we encourage you to apply.

Additional Information

We are together creators

With a portfolio that includes Dan Murphy’s, BWS, ALH Hotels, Pinnacle Drinks and more, Endeavour Group is big on sociability. Together we create the moments that bring millions of people together. And together we have more fun, create more opportunities, and score a lot more goals. We’re serious about creating a safe, inclusive and fun place to rock up to where equal opportunity is key, and flexibility is part of how we roll.  

We’re all about creating a more sociable future - for our customers and each other. If this job excites you - and you’re close-enough on the requirements, reach out, we’d love to hear from you.

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