Senior Functional Architect

Overview

Senior Functional Architect responsible for understanding business requirements across Blue Yonder product suites, shaping product vision for new features and products, and acting as domain expert and hub for stakeholders.

What you'll do

• Understand business requirements of various Blue Yonder product suites, with in-depth understanding of the focused product business requirements.
• Use a masterful understanding of the application domain, customer and user needs, the existing product suite and the competitive landscape to help sculpt the product vision for new features and products.
• Act as domain expert and advocate for best business practices for the product development team.
• Provide functional thought leadership to QA engineers and testers.
• Create functional specifications as required and present documented requirements to stakeholders for feedback.
• Ensure solution design and execution effectively meet the business objectives of customers and end users.
• Act as the hub of internal and external stakeholders for the application, interfacing with product management, stakeholders, customers, services and platform teams.
• Contribute to planning and review meetings.
• Work with product management to scope and prioritize new requirements.
• Respond to all functional queries from internal and external sources.
• Work with UX designers to create an easier and smoother user experience and advocate for user experience quality within the company.
• Validate new features and their impact on existing features.
• Demonstrate new functionality to stakeholders for feedback.
• Participate in planning sessions with key stakeholders, such as the enterprise functional architect, to develop enhancements that support business scenarios spanning Blue Yonder products.
• Assist in identifying business scenario data to be used during development.
• Provide cross-training and education to internal and external departments.
• Review test scenarios and test cases.
• Act as SME to review training material for the external organization.
• Review product documentation of existing and new features.
• Review the functional testing requirements of each feature.
• Provide functional validation to ensure features meet stated requirements.
• Develop a solid understanding of Blue Yonder product areas from a performance perspective and ensure RASSUI requirements are specified.
• Manage product requirements, competitive product analysis, market analysis, product adoption, and integration with business, engineering and support teams.
• Assist PMG with overall corporate product readiness execution to support launches, demo releases, sales readiness and support awareness trainings.
• Explain functional requirements to the development team.
• Assist PMG with RFP, RFQ, current implementations, demo preparation and delivery, and roadmap communications including interactions with SIG and UG.
• As a SME, resolve complex functional questions and issues for external and internal customers.
• Assist PMG to deliver product presentations and webcasts to clients on specialized topics.
• Assist PMG to train sales and account managers on product features, positioning and strategy.
• Mentor business analysts and functional analysts.

Details

• Location: Hyderabad.