Location: Hybrid – West Coast, USA
Compensation: $130,000 - $160,000.
About Centric Software
Centric Software stands at the forefront of innovation, delivering cutting-edge PLM solutions tailored specifically for the retail, fashion, footwear, luxury, and consumer goods industries. Our enterprise software applications are designed to meet the unique challenges of the fast-moving consumer goods market, empowering businesses to manage, optimize, and execute their critical processes with ease.
From concept to production, our software solutions streamline the journey of bringing products to life. We support our customers in effectively managing materials, sourcing, quality, and pricing, ensuring every step leads to a successful final catalog. With Centric Software, businesses can navigate the complexities of product development with confidence and agility. www.centricsoftware.com
Job Summary:
The Technical Architect, Centric Planning partners with clients and internal delivery teams to design and implement planning solutions aligned with business objectives and industry best practices. This role translates complex business requirements into scalable functional and technical designs, defining software architecture and configuration to support retail, merchandising, and supply chain planning processes.
With a strong consulting mindset, the Technical Architect supports the full implementation lifecycle—from requirements definition through system testing and validation—ensuring solutions are robust, business-aligned, and deliver measurable value.
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Key Responsibilities:
- Provide technical direction, driving a positive stance on complex solutions
- Develop and document clear technical models to meet client needs
- Identify, delegate, and perform various project-related tasks, including software installation and configuration, deployment training, and deployment support
- Ensure the drafting of documents (blueprint) framing the definition of the integration between planning and third-party systems
- Ensure or participate in the integration between planning and other internal modules and third-party systems.
- Oversee and mentor other consultants during the delivery of solutions
- Assist in the sizing and implementation of simple or complex architectures
- Serve as a bridge between R&D and customer services for issues related to architecture, integration with third-party systems and advanced configuration
- Highlighting and promoting best practices for configuring planning tools
- Make suggestions as to the functionalities of future solutions, the methodology to be implemented and the customization of standards
- Ensure that software quality engineering procedures are followed
- Achieve customer goals and ensure customer satisfaction
Qualifications:
- Scientific or technical degree in Engineering or Computer Science
- Excellent technical, verbal and written communication skills
- Knowledge on database queries (MS SQL Server)
- Knowledge of retail business processes and industry business issues, at a strategic and operational level
- Knowledge of planning tools and business implementation experience
- An appetite for innovative technologies, a strong autonomy, seniority, a taste for challenge are all qualities that are necessary to join a close-knit, motivated team
- You will evolve within a growing company, with the opportunity and responsibility to contribute, letting your talent speak
Nice to Have:
- Advanced knowledge on database queries (MS Sql Server)
- Experience in Azure architecture, deployment, and optimization
- Knowledge of main ERP Software modules
- Power BI knowledge (Dataset modelling and Dashboard design)
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $130,000 - $160,000. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level and location. The range for each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience and relevant education or training. Please note that the compensation details listed reflect the base salary and certain positions may be offered with additional variable incentives.
Centric Software provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, color, age, religion, protected veteran or disability status or genetic information.
Centric Software provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, color, age, religion, protected veteran or disability status or genetic information.
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What We Do
Centric Software® is the innovator behind the #1 Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) platform, Centric PLM™, that is blazing the trail for brands, manufacturers and retailers across all segments of the consumer goods industry. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Centric Software has shattered the mold to create state-of-the-art digital solutions to satisfy the needs of every player in the market, large and small, and supports their mission to develop high-quality, sustainable products that are on time and on trend.
- Centric PLM delivers enterprise-class merchandise planning, product development, sourcing, quality and product portfolio optimization innovations specifically for fast-moving consumer industries. Centric PLM streamlines the product development process from concept to retail.
- Centric Planning provides best-in-class data and visually driven financial, merchandise and assortment planning as well as store and vendor forecasting to maximize margins and for seamless and fast, pre and in-season execution.
- Centric Visual Boards improves collaboration and decision-making of merchandising and buying teams through intuitive digital boards, driving innovation and decreasing time to market.
All Centric solutions are market-driven, ensuring they meet the needs of customers. These innovations include the first ever PLM mobile apps, 3D CAD connectors, sustainability integrations, and more. Centric Software has the highest user adoption rates in the industry and proudly maintains a 99% customer retention rate due to its seamless implementation methodology which ensures that 100% of its customers go live. Centric Software is proud to provide the best solution, backed by the best team to service the best customers.
Centric Software is a subsidiary of Dassault Systèmes (Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA). For more information, please visit www.centricsoftware.com.
