[Remote] TMS Configuration Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Cencora is dedicated to creating healthier futures, and they are seeking a TMS Configuration Engineer to join their World Courier team. This role focuses on optimizing the Transportation Management System to ensure it meets the complexities of global specialty logistics for the pharmaceutical industry, impacting service quality and pharmaceutical integrity.
Responsibilities
- Lead Infios configuration delivery
- Design, build, and optimize Infios TMS configurations including workflows, rules, master data structures, and rate logic to support global specialty logistics
- Perform unit testing and peer reviews of configuration changes (e.g., rules, workflows, rates, master data impacts), ensuring expected behavior across core logistics scenarios while maintaining consistency with standards, performance considerations, and maintainability
- Facilitate meetings and give product demonstrations
- Plan and execute configuration migrations between environments (e.g., dev/test/staging/prod) using established tools and processes, validating completeness, dependencies, and version alignment
- Partner with integration teams and vendors to support TMS connectivity and data flows (EDI/API/file-based), ensuring configurations align with mapping, events, statuses, and orchestration across systems
- Work closely with other teams to turn business requirements into scalable Infios design patterns (configuration over customization where possible)
- Contribute to configuration standards, reusable patterns, documentation, and governance that increase delivery speed without sacrificing quality
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Programming/Systems or Computer Science or other related field. Or equivalent work experience
- Typically requires 8 or more years of application programming and analysis experience
- Has a broad level of understanding surrounding information systems and application architecture standards
- Experience in leading projects
- Demonstrated ability to analyze and interpret complex problems or processes that span multiple business areas, identify and understand requirements and develop alternate solutions
- Experience designing, developing and testing applications using proven or emerging technologies, in a variety of technologies and environments
- Advanced programming skills in several programming languages
- Advanced understanding of relational database design and theory
- Ability to translate complicated business requirements into multiple solution options and explain the pros/cons of various approaches
- Advanced knowledge of Object-Orient Design Patterns and use cases for applying them
- Proficient communication skills and experience in mentoring/leading junior developers
- Technical experience with systems networking, databases, development, and user support
- Good background in Data Base design (e.g. Microsoft SQL and Access)
- Exposure to servers technology (e.g. IBM Power 8) would be helpful to assist with integration
- Proven, hands-on experience configuring Infios TMS, CARMA, and related products including integrations and data flows
- Strong understanding of transportation execution concepts (shipment lifecycle events, exceptions, milestones, service levels, carrier/service configuration, rates)
- Proven ability to migrate configurations across environments reliably (including dependency management, version control/release packaging, and validation)
- Excellent communication skills — able to translate between 'user' and 'developer' with clarity and empathy
- Experience in specialty logistics, cold-chain, clinical trials, or other time-critical, high-service networks
- Familiarity with change control practices and documentation expectations in regulated or highly governed environments
- Comfort with data validation and analysis (e.g., structured files such as CSV/XML/JSON/EDI)
- Experience with WMS application (e.g. Inbound, Outbound, Pick pack and ship processes) preferred but not required
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision care
- Backup dependent care
- Adoption assistance
- Infertility coverage
- Family building support
- Behavioral health solutions
- Paid parental leave
- Paid caregiver leave
- A variety of training programs
- Professional development resources
- Opportunities to participate in mentorship programs
- Employee resource groups
- Volunteer activities
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