Blue Yonder Application Architect

Client: Walgreens

Duration: 3-month contract-to-hire, or extension (this will be long-term)

Location: REMOTE

Pay: $90/hour C2C

Overview

• Need an Architect with hands on experience in OMS inventory application
• Lots of features and functions in this app – some enabled and other not yet enabled – why they want an architect to tell them how it would operate
• Installed in Walgreens MS azure Kubernetes system – their own AKS – experienced with MS and AKS – setting up nod pool and all services deploying out there
• Sits on Cassandra database
• Hazel cast – in-memory process used by blue yonder – how many boxed o Kleenex in this store – looks in memory cache
• Someone who understands this app and can configure it – how to configure function in it
• WMS (warehouse management) and/or TMS (transportation) only experience will not work
• Needs blue yonder OMS inventory side
• Blue yonder performance volume testing
• Walgreens has largest blue yonder installs of any other clients
• 8000 stores and thousands of customers
• With new feature, 10,000 calls per hour coming in – they need performance testing – add additional servers/ad pools in azure Kubernetes, etc.
• Custom backend loading – if Fede sends out an update (here’s a list of dates that FedEx will not be picking up bc they will be closed bc of thanksgiving, etc.) – mass uploads to load data back there – Jmeter and Python are a nice to have to add this info into blue yonder
• Must-have skills
• Blue Yonder experience, especially Hands-on in Blue Yonder OMS / Inventory
• BY Nodepools (kafkanp, general, cpcommonnp, consumernp, avlbltynp, avlbltyhz)
• BY services and management of services, pods Hazelcast Cassandra Db Confluent Kafka
• Messaging systems Grafana dashboards for monitoring BY Version upgrades (configuring, deploying, testing, Perf testing) BY configurations of BY OMS / Inventory features BY Performance testing

Nice to have skills

• Microservices, Azure, Kubernetes (AKS) Javascript, NodeJS, Python for custom interfaces Microsoft ADO, Repos, Pipelines Jmeter BY MDM (Master Data Management) configuration.

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