Job Title: Senior Architect – Transport Management Systems (TMS)

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n8+ years Role Type: Senior / Enterprise Architecture / Transformation Leadership

nLocation: Bengaluru Domain: Supply Chain, Logistics, Transportation Technology

nJob Summary

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- The Senior TMS Architect will lead the architecture, design, and transformation of complex Transport Management Systems
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- from the ground up, shaping scalable transportation platforms that support planning, execution, visibility, freight settlement,
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- carrier connectivity, and WW enterprise logistics integration. This role requires deep expertise in TMS solution architecture,
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- experience working with vendor TMS products as an integration engineer, and the ability to apply industry-standard practices
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- to drive large-scale transformation initiatives. This person will act as thought leader across business, engineering, vendors,
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- and implementation partners, driving solution design, integration strategy, modernization roadmap, and delivery governance.
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nResponsibilities

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- Lead the end-to-end architecture and design of enterprise-grade TMS platforms from scratch, covering domain
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- boundaries, canonical models, integration patterns, deployment topology, and NF architecture requirements.
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- Drive TMS transformation initiatives including current-state assessment, target architecture, phased modernization
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- roadmap, migration strategy, and transition governance.
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- Define target-state TMS architecture aligned to business capability maps, enterprise architecture principles, and
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- transportation industry best practices integrating with inter-continental carriers ensuring on-time delivery with countryspecific legal and tax compliance.
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- Work closely with vendor TMS products and implementation partners as a hands-on integration architect, ensuring the
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- product landscape is configured and extended to meet enterprise process and data requirements.
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- Design microservices-based and event-driven enterprise architecture patterns for transportation workflows, enabling
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- loose coupling, scalability, resilience, and eventual consistency across business services.
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- Establish event models, integration contracts, API standards, and messaging patterns for shipment lifecycle events,
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- carrier updates, execution status, exceptions, invoicing, and operational visibility.
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- Define standards for observability, security, auditability, data governance, performance, and business continuity
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- across the TMS ecosystem.
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- Develop real-time monitoring and tracking services with intelligent routing and cost-optimization engines. Expect to
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- have knowledge of reverse logistics and good understanding of mid mile and last mile solutions.
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- Guide system integration testing, user acceptance testing, deployment planning, and post-go-live stabilization for
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- complex TMS implementations and upgrades.
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- Mentor engineering and solution teams on domain-driven service decomposition, integration best practices, and
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- enterprise integration governance.
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- Mandatory Requirements
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- 8+ years of overall experience in enterprise application architecture, with significant experience in Transport
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- Management Systems and logistics technology.
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- Proven experience designing complex TMS platforms from scratch and driving TMS transformation using industrystandard guidelines, architecture governance, and process methodologies.
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- Mandatory experience working closely with vendor TMS/vendor products such as Oracle Transportation, Blue Yonder,
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- SAP TM, Manhattan, or similar enterprise transportation platforms as an integration architect or lead consultant.
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- Strong understanding of transportation operations, including inbound, outbound, multimodal, carrier integration
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- (FedEx, DHL, UPS, etc.), freight costing, routing, shipment execution, and logistics visibility.
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- Deep expertise in microservices architecture and event-driven enterprise architecture for large-scale supply chain or
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- transportation systems.
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- Solid hands-on experience with API-led integration, asynchronous messaging, event brokers, schema/version
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- management, and integration security.
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- Key Skills
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- Area Required Capability
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- TMS architecture Designed greenfield TMS solutions, defined target architecture and domain models.
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- Vendor integration Worked deeply with vendor TMS product partners, not just custom-built platforms.
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- Enterprise integration Integrated TMS with ERP, WMS, OMS, carriers, 3PLs, and external logistics systems.
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- Microservices Designed service decomposition, API-first contracts, resilient-scalable distributed services.
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- Event-driven architecture Built asynchronous workflows using Kafka, queues, streams, or similar event platforms.
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- Architecture governance Led reviews, standards, reusable patterns, ADRs, and transformation roadmaps.
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- Cloud/platforms Knowledge of Kubernetes, CI/CD, Observability, and Secure deployment practices.
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- Technical Leadership Able to run workshops, align vendors, influence business teams, and mentor engineers.
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