PDM Digital Supply Chain Solution Engineer

About the Role

The PDM Digital Supply Chain Solution Engineer is a senior individual contributor responsible for shaping and assuring digital solutions that support warehousing, inventory, transportation, logistics, and distribution. The role translates business, operational, and regulatory requirements into scalable, secure, and compliant solution designs across Transportation Management Systems (TMS), SAP WM/IM, the logistics-execution elements of SAP SD, and associated integrations.

Key Responsibilities

• Solution Design and Technical Assurance
• Translate warehousing, inventory, transportation, and distribution needs into functional, technical, integration, data, security, and non-functional requirements.
• Develop solution options, target designs, data flows, and fit-to-standard assessments across TMS, SAP WM/IM or EWM, SAP SD logistics execution, and associated platforms.
• Ensure designs align with enterprise architecture, cybersecurity, data, quality, privacy, and approved technology standards.
• Own technical design quality and maintain clear design decisions, assumptions, dependencies, and acceptance criteria.
• Delivery, Testing, and UAT Support
• Lead assigned technical workstreams from design through implementation, stabilization, and transition to support.
• Define the technical test strategy and coordinate system integration testing and UAT support, including end-to-end processes, interfaces, roles, data, regression, and applicable non-functional testing.
• Ensure requirements traceability, test scripts, test data, evidence, defects, retesting, and approvals are managed in accordance with applicable GxP and validation controls.
• Lead defect triage and technical impact assessment, and ensure critical issues are resolved or formally accepted before release.
• Review vendor and system-integrator deliverables against approved requirements, designs, standards, and acceptance criteria.
• GxP Validation and Governance
• Partner with Business Process Owners, System Owners, Quality, and Validation teams on risk assessment, validation planning, traceability, evidence review, deviation management, and release readiness.
• Remain accountable for the completeness and quality of technical deliverables.
• Support architecture governance, change control, CAB, audit readiness, records management, and system lifecycle processes.
• SCM Process and Stakeholder Engagement
• Act as the principal digital interface for warehousing, logistics, transportation, and distribution stakeholders, DigitalX, architecture, quality, and external partners.
• Facilitate requirements, design, testing, and decision workshops, clearly communicating solution options, risks, defects, and trade-offs.
• Promote global standards while addressing justified regulatory, legal, and operational requirements.
• Technology, Data, and Integration
• Shape solutions supporting transportation planning and execution, carrier connectivity, tendering and booking, shipment visibility, exception management, freight settlement, and integration with warehouse and distribution processes.
• Define integration requirements across SAP, TMS, warehouses, carriers, freight forwarders, third-party logistics providers, and enterprise platforms using APIs, middleware, EDI, and event-based patterns.
• Define master-data, migration, reconciliation, reporting, analytics, and information-quality requirements.
• Assess appropriate automation, analytics, and AI opportunities while ensuring security, compliance, and supportability.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Strong working knowledge of TMS and SAP logistics capabilities, including SAP WM/IM or EWM and the logistics-execution elements of SAP SD.
• Practical experience integrating SAP or TMS with warehouses, carriers, freight forwarders, third-party logistics providers, or enterprise platforms.
• Hands-on experience leading or coordinating system integration testing and UAT support, including planning, script review, traceability, test data, defect management, retesting, and evidence.
• Experience delivering and testing systems in a GxP or similarly regulated environment, with working knowledge of computer-system validation and change control.
• Experience defining solution designs, requirements, integrations, data flows, and technical options.
• Experience leading technical workstreams and managing system integrators, software vendors, or managed-service providers.
• Working knowledge of APIs, middleware, EDI, data governance, cybersecurity, and system lifecycle management.
• Strong communication, facilitation, analytical, and stakeholder-management skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Supply Chain, or a related discipline.
• Experience delivering digital solutions across warehousing, logistics, transportation, or distribution in a complex global organization.