Senior Enterprise Architect
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Senior Enterprise Architect leading enterprise architecture at Border States, ensuring technology investments align to enterprise goals. Collaborating with business and technology leaders to enhance scalability and performance.
Responsibilities:
- Partners with business and technology leaders to define enterprise architecture direction and ensure major initiatives reinforce business process performance, platform coherence, and long term scalability.
- Defines and operates enterprise architecture standards, guardrails, and exception processes in coordination with the VP of Digital Transformation, CIO, Security, and domain leaders.
- Provides thought leadership in modern architecture principles, technology modernization, and enterprise wide architectural coherence.
- Evaluates SaaS platforms, vendors, and major solution designs for capability fit, integration complexity, identity and data implications, scalability, total cost of ownership, and long term portfolio alignment.
- Develops and maintains architecture artifacts—including logical, business, integration, and functional diagrams—to support engineering, applications, and security teams.
- Defines enterprise transition roadmaps for ERP, integration, data, analytics, and adjacent platforms, emphasizing clean core principles, technical debt reduction, and delivery sequencing.
- Leads architecture reviews and recommendations for major initiatives, platform changes, new technologies, and cross domain designs, ensuring alignment with approved guardrails.
- Advises senior leaders on tradeoffs involving reuse, scalability, complexity, risk, technical debt, and long term enterprise fit.
- Translates current state capabilities into future state architecture and roadmap decisions in partnership with business, process, and domain leaders.
- Establishes and governs ERP architecture guardrails for SAP modernization, including clean core principles, extensibility boundaries, and integration constraints.
- Defines and governs enterprise integration standards, including API first patterns, event driven architecture, canonical data principles, observability, resilience, and lifecycle management.
- Defines enterprise standards for master data ownership, stewardship models, domain boundaries, and governance mechanisms, and supports trustworthy analytics, certified KPIs, and semantic consistency.
- Operates a fast, documented architecture decision and exception process and ensures governance remains lightweight, pragmatic, and delivery focused.
- Defines architecture criteria for application portfolio rationalization, integration simplification, and technical debt visibility, and influences build/buy/reuse decisions through a business capability and enterprise value lens.
- Leads a federated architecture operating model and Architecture CoE, raising architecture quality across domains through early engagement, coaching, and cross functional alignment.
Requirements:
- 4 Year STEM Degree or equivalent work experience required.
- 12+ years of progressive experience across enterprise architecture, solution architecture, or platform architecture, including significant cross-domain responsibility.
- Demonstrated experience shaping enterprise architecture decisions across ERP, integration, applications, and data.
- Proven success guiding ERP modernization or large enterprise platform transformation in a complex operating environment.
- Strong experience with modern integration patterns, including APIs, event-driven architecture, service reuse, observability, and lifecycle management.
- Strong fluency in data architecture, master data governance concepts, and analytics enablement.
- Demonstrated ability to define architecture standards and decision processes that accelerate delivery rather than slow it down.
- Strong business acumen and the ability to connect architecture decisions to operating model, risk, cost, and growth outcomes.
- Experience in wholesale distribution, industrial distribution, manufacturing distribution, or another branch-heavy, inventory-intensive, multi-site business.
- Experience with SAP S/4HANA environments and clean-core governance.
- Experience working in a federated architecture model with domain architects or embedded architecture leadership.
- Experience with post-merger integration patterns, portfolio rationalization, or enterprise platform simplification.
- Familiarity with formal architecture frameworks and structured architecture description methods; practical outcomes matter more than certification alone.
Benefits:
- Health, Dental and Vision Benefits
- Accident, Critical Illness, Hospital Indemnity
- FSA & HSA
- Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
- Disability Benefits
- 401(k) Retirement Plan
- Life Insurance
- Employee Assistance Program
- Paid Holidays
- Paid Volunteer Time
- Personal Leave time and more!
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