Xenith Solutions
Senior JDA Functional Architect
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Philadelphia, PA
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Contract
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Architecture
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- An undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Engineering, Economics, Business, Applied Mathematics, or a related field.
- At least eight (8) years of directly related experience and eight (8) years of DoD JDA experience.
- Experience serving as a JDA functional architect on a large-scale JDA supply-chain implementation.
- Experience programming or developing statistical analyses with SAS, R, SPSS, or SQL, plus Microsoft Office proficiency.
- Experience integrating a JDA Planning solution with an SAP supply-chain and financial system within the Federal Government.
- An active IT-II clearance or a favorably adjudicated NACLC at proposal submission, plus the ability to satisfy DLA IT-II privileged-access and CAC requirements.
Nice to have
- Fifteen or more years of directly related DoD Clothing and Textiles supply-chain experience.
- Fifteen or more years implementing and configuring JDA for DLA organizational clothing, individual equipment, and recruit-planning strategies.
- Fifteen or more years supporting DLA EBS as a demand-and-supply-planning subject-matter expert.
- Fifteen or more years of in-depth experience with EBS, JDA, DLA data and analytic systems, and DLA Clothing and Textiles business processes.
- Experience providing senior-leadership oversight of multiple DLA projects of similar scale and complexity.
Full description
Xenith Solutions is seeking a Senior JDA Functional Architect to support the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Clothing and Textiles supply chain. This high-priority Key Personnel role provides technical and functional leadership for JDA planning solutions, DoD logistics networks, forecasting, inventory optimization, reporting, and integration with DLA enterprise systems.
Why this role matters
DLA Clothing and Textiles depends on effective demand and supply planning to support a large, diverse product portfolio and a constrained industrial base. This architect helps DLA improve planning capabilities by aligning JDA configuration, forecasting, analytics, system integration, and user adoption with mission and supply-chain objectives.
What you will do
- Develop JDA technical and functional supply-chain solution strategies for DoD demand planning, distribution planning, collaboration, inventory optimization, and reporting.
- Provide functional direction for the design, configuration, development, testing, and training of JDA supply-chain planning applications.
- Lead supply-chain analysis, business-value mapping, organizational-readiness assessment, and planning-application configuration reviews.
- Use the JDA Planning Suite to plan, prepare, and simulate strategic, operational, and tactical DoD supply-chain impacts.
- Review and validate forecasting algorithms, configurations, and related demand-planning capabilities.
- Direct the design of key-performance-indicator dashboards, metrics, and reports that support DLA business objectives and priorities.
- Support integration of JDA Planning with SAP supply-chain and financial systems and DLA data environments.
- Provide technical leadership for strategic planning, process improvement, analytics, inventory management, and supply-planning initiatives.
Required qualifications
- An undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Engineering, Economics, Business, Applied Mathematics, or a related field.
- At least eight (8) years of directly related experience and eight (8) years of DoD JDA experience.
- Experience serving as a JDA functional architect on a large-scale JDA supply-chain implementation.
- Experience programming or developing statistical analyses with SAS, R, SPSS, or SQL, plus Microsoft Office proficiency.
- Experience integrating a JDA Planning solution with an SAP supply-chain and financial system within the Federal Government.
- An active IT-II clearance or a favorably adjudicated NACLC at proposal submission, plus the ability to satisfy DLA IT-II privileged-access and CAC requirements.
Preferred qualifications
- Fifteen or more years of directly related DoD Clothing and Textiles supply-chain experience.