Senior TMS (Transport Management System) Architect

Job Title: Senior Architect – Transport Management Systems (TMS)

Experience:

8+ years Role Type: Senior / Enterprise Architecture / Transformation Leadership

Location: Bengaluru Domain: Supply Chain, Logistics, Transportation Technology

Job Summary

• The Senior TMS Architect will lead the architecture, design, and transformation of complex Transport Management Systems
• from the ground up, shaping scalable transportation platforms that support planning, execution, visibility, freight settlement,
• carrier connectivity, and WW enterprise logistics integration. This role requires deep expertise in TMS solution architecture,
• experience working with vendor TMS products as an integration engineer, and the ability to apply industry-standard practices
• to drive large-scale transformation initiatives. This person will act as thought leader across business, engineering, vendors,
• and implementation partners, driving solution design, integration strategy, modernization roadmap, and delivery governance.

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end architecture and design of enterprise-grade TMS platforms from scratch, covering domain
• boundaries, canonical models, integration patterns, deployment topology, and NF architecture requirements.
• Drive TMS transformation initiatives including current-state assessment, target architecture, phased modernization
• roadmap, migration strategy, and transition governance.
• Define target-state TMS architecture aligned to business capability maps, enterprise architecture principles, and
• transportation industry best practices integrating with inter-continental carriers ensuring on-time delivery with countryspecific legal and tax compliance.
• Work closely with vendor TMS products and implementation partners as a hands-on integration architect, ensuring the
• product landscape is configured and extended to meet enterprise process and data requirements.
• Design microservices-based and event-driven enterprise architecture patterns for transportation workflows, enabling
• loose coupling, scalability, resilience, and eventual consistency across business services.
• Establish event models, integration contracts, API standards, and messaging patterns for shipment lifecycle events,
• carrier updates, execution status, exceptions, invoicing, and operational visibility.
• Define standards for observability, security, auditability, data governance, performance, and business continuity
• across the TMS ecosystem.
• Develop real-time monitoring and tracking services with intelligent routing and cost-optimization engines. Expect to
• have knowledge of reverse logistics and good understanding of mid mile and last mile solutions.
• Guide system integration testing, user acceptance testing, deployment planning, and post-go-live stabilization for
• complex TMS implementations and upgrades.
• Mentor engineering and solution teams on domain-driven service decomposition, integration best practices, and
• enterprise integration governance.
• Mandatory Requirements
• 8+ years of overall experience in enterprise application architecture, with significant experience in Transport
• Management Systems and logistics technology.
• Proven experience designing complex TMS platforms from scratch and driving TMS transformation using industrystandard guidelines, architecture governance, and process methodologies.
• Mandatory experience working closely with vendor TMS/vendor products such as Oracle Transportation, Blue Yonder,
• SAP TM, Manhattan, or similar enterprise transportation platforms as an integration architect or lead consultant.
• Strong understanding of transportation operations, including inbound, outbound, multimodal, carrier integration
• (FedEx, DHL, UPS, etc.), freight costing, routing, shipment execution, and logistics visibility.
• Deep expertise in microservices architecture and event-driven enterprise architecture for large-scale supply chain or
• transportation systems.
• Strong hands-on experience with API-led integration, asynchronous messaging, event brokers, schema/version
• management, and integration security.
• Key Skills
• Area Required Capability
• TMS architecture Designed greenfield TMS solutions, defined target architecture and domain models.
• Vendor integration Worked deeply with vendor TMS product partners, not just custom-built platforms.
• Enterprise integration Integrated TMS with ERP, WMS, OMS, carriers, 3PLs, and external logistics systems.
• Microservices Designed service decomposition, API-first contracts, resilient-scalable distributed services.
• Event-driven architecture Built asynchronous workflows using Kafka, queues, streams, or similar event platforms.
• Architecture governance Led reviews, standards, reusable patterns, ADRs, and transformation roadmaps.
• Cloud/platforms Knowledge of Kubernetes, CI/CD, Observability, and Secure deployment practices.
• Technical Leadership Able to run workshops, align vendors, influence business teams, and mentor engineers.