Staff Architect – Supply Chain Planning Capabilities
Posted Aug 28, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026
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About your past
Tell me about an architecture decision you made that a business team pushed back on. How did you resolve it?
What they are checking: Whether they can defend sound architecture while staying open to real business needs.
Describe a time you translated a business outcome into a technical design.
What they are checking: Whether they start from business outcomes, which the posting says is the point of the role.
What would you do
The business wants a new planning feature fast, but it doesn't fit enterprise standards. What do you do?
What they are checking: Whether they can find a path that meets the business need while protecting long-term architecture.
How do you make sure architecture governance helps teams rather than slowing them down?
What they are checking: Whether they see governance as guidance and enablement, not just a review gate.
How do you think AI and autonomous planning will change supply chain architecture in the next few years?
What they are checking: Whether they have a grounded view on where AI helps planning and what it needs to work.
About the work
Walk me through how demand planning, supply planning and integrated business planning connect in a system landscape like o9 or OMP.
What they are checking: Whether they understand how planning capabilities hand data to each other end to end.
How would you decide whether a planning capability belongs in o9, OMP or a decision platform like Aera?
What they are checking: Whether they can make clear architecture choices based on each tool's strengths instead of overlapping tools.
How would you design the data flows between SAP and a planning platform so planners trust the numbers?
What they are checking: Whether they think about master data, latency and reconciliation that make planning data reliable.
How do you build a roadmap for a portfolio of planning solutions over the next three years?
What they are checking: Whether they can sequence capability and technology changes in a way leaders can fund and follow.
What does good supply chain monitoring look like, and how would you architect it?
What they are checking: Whether they understand control tower concepts and the data and alerting behind them.
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