Senior Enterprise Architect

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in North Dakota.

📋 Description

• Collaborates with business and technology leaders to establish the direction of enterprise architecture and ensure that major initiatives enhance business process performance, platform coherence, and long-term scalability.

• Defines and implements enterprise architecture standards, guardrails, and exception processes in collaboration with the VP of Digital Transformation, CIO, Security, and domain leaders.

• Provides strategic guidance on modern architecture principles, technology modernization, and enterprise-wide architectural coherence.

• Assesses SaaS platforms, vendors, and significant solution designs for capability fit, integration complexity, identity and data considerations, scalability, total cost of ownership, and long-term portfolio alignment.

• Creates and maintains architecture artifacts—including logical, business, integration, and functional diagrams—to support engineering, applications, and security teams.

• Formulates enterprise transition roadmaps for ERP, integration, data, analytics, and related platforms, focusing on clean core principles, technical debt reduction, and delivery sequencing.

• Oversees architecture reviews and recommendations for major initiatives, platform modifications, new technologies, and cross-domain designs, ensuring compliance with established guardrails.

• Counsels senior leaders on trade-offs related to reuse, scalability, complexity, risk, technical debt, and long-term enterprise compatibility.

• Converts current state capabilities into future state architecture and roadmap decisions in collaboration 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, such as API-first patterns, event-driven architecture, canonical data principles, observability, resilience, and lifecycle management.

• Establishes enterprise standards for master data ownership, stewardship models, domain boundaries, and governance mechanisms, supporting reliable analytics, certified KPIs, and semantic consistency.

• Operates a swift, documented architecture decision and exception process while ensuring governance remains lightweight, pragmatic, and delivery-oriented.

• Sets architecture criteria for application portfolio rationalization, integration simplification, and technical debt visibility, influencing build/buy/reuse decisions through a business capability and enterprise value perspective.

• Leads a federated architecture operating model and Architecture Center of Excellence, enhancing architecture quality across domains through early engagement, coaching, and cross-functional alignment.

⛳️ Requirements

• A 4-Year STEM Degree or equivalent work experience is required.

• Over 12 years of progressive experience across enterprise architecture, solution architecture, or platform architecture, with significant cross-domain responsibility.

• Proven experience in shaping enterprise architecture decisions across ERP, integration, applications, and data.

• Demonstrated success in guiding ERP modernization or large enterprise platform transformation within a complex operating environment.

• Extensive experience with modern integration patterns, including APIs, event-driven architecture, service reuse, observability, and lifecycle management.

• Strong understanding of data architecture, master data governance concepts, and analytics enablement.

• Proven ability to define architecture standards and decision processes that expedite delivery rather than hinder it.

• Strong business acumen with the capability to connect architecture decisions to operating model, risk, cost, and growth outcomes.

• Experience in wholesale distribution, industrial distribution, manufacturing distribution, or other inventory-intensive, multi-site businesses.

• Familiarity with SAP S/4HANA environments and clean-core governance.

• Experience operating within a federated architecture model alongside domain architects or embedded architecture leadership.

• Experience with post-merger integration patterns, portfolio rationalization, or enterprise platform simplification.

• Understanding of formal architecture frameworks and structured architecture description methods; practical outcomes are prioritized over certifications.

🏝️ 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!