Director of Supply Chain Applications

The Director Supply Chain Applications leads the design development implementation support and modernization of the technology platforms that enable the companys supply chain operations. This role is accountable for the performance and long-term direction of the supply chain application portfolio and works closely with business and technology leaders to translate operational priorities into reliable scalable solutions. The Director also guides the transition from legacy platforms to modern cloud-based solutions while maintaining business continuity managing technology risk and ensuring critical systems continue to support the companys evolving needs.

What Would You Do The Specifics.

• Oversees the development of critical applications and technology to support the companys long-term goals.
• Owns the supply chain application portfolio including strategy delivery maintenance production support and lifecycle planning.
• Oversees an extensively customized JDA environment running on IBM i (AS/400 / iSeries) supporting the applications and business processes that keep our supply chain operating.
• Provides technical direction and oversight for the customized JDA platform including RPG programs CL processing database interactions batch workflows and interfaces while ensuring sound architecture maintainability and operational reliability.
• Reviews complex code and application changes assess downstream impacts and guide troubleshooting of production issues.
• Oversees source control change management and release processes within ALDON including dependency management approvals environment promotion deployment readiness and rollback planning.
• Serves as a technology partner to leaders across Supply Chain Distribution Merchandising Finance translating operational requirements into scalable solutions prioritized roadmaps and informed technology investments.
• Documents critical business rules customizations interfaces and operational dependencies to preserve institutional knowledge and reduce reliance on individual experts.
• Defines and maintains application development and support standards across solution design coding testing documentation production support release management and change control.
• Partners with Infrastructure and Operations teams to strengthen application availability performance security disaster recovery business continuity and batch-processing reliability.
• Leads application modernization and transformation planning including application discovery requirements analysis process assessment solution evaluation data mapping migration planning and transition readiness for future platform changes.
• Communicates application health delivery progress risks and investment recommendations to business and technology leadership.
• Assists in the development review and compliance of IT policies and procedures including project approval process signature authority policy information security policies and processes and disaster recovery and business continuity processes.

Qualifications :

Work Experience

• 9 years related experience working on IBM i (AS/400 / iSeries) (Required) and
• Experience sunsetting a legacy JDA/IBM environment and migrating to a modern SaaS solution such as Oracle (Preferred)
• Demonstrated leadership of application development and support teams responsible for business-critical systems. (Required)
• Demonstrated success leading enterprise application portfolios that support supply chain distribution retail merchandising or other large-scale operational functions. (Required)
• Extensive experience supporting and enhancing highly customized packaged applications with complex business rules interfaces and integration dependencies. (Required)
• Proven experience leading supply chain or merchandising platform modernization replacement or migration initiatives within complex operational environments. (Required)

Education

• Four year college degree or equivalent information technology computer science or a related field (Required)

Additional Skills

• Extensive hands-on experience with RPG development on IBM i including the ability to read debug evaluate and provide technical direction for heavily customized legacy code. (Required)
• Strong familiarity with older fixed-format RPG and experience with RPG III RPG IV / ILE RPG and newer RPG approaches as applicable to the environment. (Required)
• Strong working knowledge of CL Db2 for i DDS physical and logical files libraries jobs job queues job logs and batch-processing environments. (Required)
• Substantial hands-on experience using ALDON for IBM i source management change control release governance and application promotion. (Required)
• Strong understanding of end-to-end supply chain processes including purchasing inventory management replenishment allocation distribution and fulfillment. (Required)
• Proven ability to lead high-priority production incident resolution root-cause analysis corrective action and long-term risk mitigation. (Required)
• Demonstrated ability to translate technical constraints and business needs into clear priorities practical delivery plans and well-supported investment decisions. (Required)
• Working knowledge of SQL EDI APIs file-based interfaces and enterprise integration patterns. (Required)
• Experience identifying validating and documenting business rules embedded within legacy source code. (Required)

Additional Information :

Taking Care of our People!

We understand the importance of financial health and security and because of that we provide competitive compensation to all Associates. We also offer a comprehensive benefits package including health and dental insurance 401k retirement savings with company match flex spending account paid personal time off paid company holidays parental leave employee eyewear discount and much much more. At National Vision we strive to deliver opportunities for professional growth and long-term career fulfillment. We provide training programs access to educational courses and pride ourselves on the ever-increasing amount of promotions from within.

We are an equal opportunity employer.  We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin genetic information disability veteran status and other legally protected characteristics.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time