Enterprise Applications Architect

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of and sustain application lifecycle strategies and long-term roadmaps for enterprise business applications.

• Track vendor roadmaps, release prerequisites, support capabilities, end-of-support timelines, platform dependencies, and technology risks; suggest upgrades, migrations, replacements, or remediation measures.

• Assess cloud, hosted, and on-premises deployment alternatives and propose solutions based on business needs, security, integration requirements, supportability, resilience, cost, and architectural suitability.

• Establish secure, scalable, supportable, configurable, and resilient future-state application architectures that align with business goals.

• Engage in enterprise architecture reviews for newly introduced or significantly modified applications and services.

• Analyze technologies and recommend application platforms, tools, standards, and patterns.

• Keep application architecture documentation, diagrams, integration maps, standards, technical decisions, and operational procedures up to date.

• Collaborate with business leaders and process owners to enhance processes and translate requirements into technological solutions.

• Design solutions for applications, configurations, workflows, security, and integrations.

• Articulate solution options, dependencies, trade-offs, risks, operational implications, and recommendations.

• Deliver advanced administration, technical oversight, and operational support for assigned enterprise applications and environments.

• Oversee configurations, environments, releases, upgrades, patches, dependencies, and operational documentation.

• Monitor and enhance application availability, performance, reliability, supportability, recoverability, and user experience.

• Provide Tier I–II administration and support while acting as a Tier III escalation point.

• Triage and resolve incidents, manage escalations, identify recurring issues, and implement corrective measures.

• Define enterprise application integration architectures, standards, and reusable patterns.

• Architect integrations between enterprise applications and third-party platforms.

• Develop technical designs and requirements for integrations created by developers, consultants, vendors, or partners.

• Evaluate integration technologies and platforms; assess completed integrations for architecture, security, monitoring, support, and recovery compliance.

• Troubleshoot interface failures and enhance integration monitoring, recoverability, stability, and performance.

• Design and govern application security models, roles, privileges, segregation of duties, provisioning standards, and auditability.

• Configure and maintain roles and permissions and execute user provisioning, modification, and deprovisioning for assigned applications.

• Collaborate with Information Security, Infrastructure, Data, Internal Audit, and business teams on application and integration risks.

• Define strategies for environments including development, testing, QA, production, disaster recovery, and failover.

• Coordinate environment setups, application recovery, failover testing, and address technical gaps.

• Lead technical workstreams for upgrades, migrations, implementations, replatforming, data-center relocations, and modernization projects.

• Act as project lead for selected technically focused application initiatives.

• Coordinate with consultants, developers, implementation partners, managed service providers, vendors, and service partners.

• Define technical requirements, deliverables, standards, and acceptance criteria; review external deliverables.

• Lead technical vendor and service partner engagements while promoting knowledge transfer.

⛳️ Requirements

• A Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, business administration, or a related technology field, or 6–8 years of relevant experience in place of a Bachelor's.

• At least five years of relevant experience supporting business applications within an IT organization.

• Familiarity with a major ERP platform such as Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, Oracle Fusion, SAP, Microsoft Dynamics, or an equivalent enterprise solution.

• Capability to define application roadmaps, lifecycle strategies, future-state architectures, and modernization plans.

• Strong experience in integration architecture across APIs, middleware, orchestration, secure file transfer, batch processing, and data exchange.

• Hands-on experience with application configuration, environments, security administration, role-based access, provisioning, and production support.

• Experience directing developers, consultants, vendors, implementation partners, or managed service providers.

• Excellent troubleshooting, documentation, communication, analytical, and stakeholder management skills.

• Ability to independently structure ambiguous tasks and lead technical initiatives to completion.

• Preferred: Experience with Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne architecture, administration, integrations, or CNC responsibilities.

• Preferred: Knowledge of ERP modernization, major upgrades, platform migrations, cloud adoption, or data-center relocations.

• Preferred: Familiarity with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, JD Edwards Orchestrator, GoAnywhere, Boomi, or similar technologies.

• Preferred: Experience with enterprise applications in project-based, engineering, construction, or field-services environments.

🏝️ Benefits

• 0–15% travel is required for this position.

• Equal Opportunity Employer.

• Participates in the e-Verify program.