Enterprise Applications Architect

Key Responsibilities

Enterprise Application Architecture

• Define, maintain, and evolve the enterprise applications architecture strategy and roadmap, aligned with business goals and IT transformation initiatives.
• Act as a technology thought leader for enterprise platforms, ensuring architectural consistency, scalability, security, and performance.
• Provide architectural oversight for major initiatives and ensure compliance with enterprise standards and reference architectures.
• Participate in architecture review boards and guide solution design across projects.

SAP Architecture & Enablement (Core Focus)

• Serve as a senior architecture authority for SAP landscapes, including SAP S/4HANA, ECC, SAP BTP, SAP Analytics, SAP Integration Suite, and MuleSoft.
• Lead the integration of SAP S/4HANA with MES platforms, PLM systems, CRM, EDI, legacy ERPs (e.g., JDE, Avante, Epicor), and cloud services.
• Guide reduction of custom code and promote adoption of SAP standard capabilities where feasible.
• Partner with functional, technical, and business stakeholders to ensure alignment with standardized business processes.

Integration & Platform Strategy

• Define and govern enterprise integration patterns (API-led, event-driven, middleware-based).
• Design and oversee end-to-end application integration using platforms such as SAP BTP and MuleSoft.
• Ensure resilient, secure, and scalable integrations in collaboration with infrastructure and security teams.

Process Mapping & Application Rationalization

• Lead business process mapping initiatives to identify redundancies, inefficiencies, and optimization opportunities.
• Drive application rationalization, consolidation, and modernization, including system sunsetting and SaaS adoption.
• Ensure applications are aligned to end-to-end business capabilities and value streams.
• Experience with R&D processes and PLM rationalization is a plus.

Enterprise Data Strategy

• Architect and support an enterprise data strategy, including master data, analytics, and enterprise data platforms.
• Collaborate on data governance, data quality, and information lifecycle management.
• Enable advanced analytics, reporting, and future AI/ML use cases through strong data foundations.

Governance, Mentoring & Collaboration

• Establish and enforce architecture principles, standards, and reference architectures.
• Mentor solution and domain architects, development teams, and delivery partners on architectural best practices.
• Collaborate effectively with business leaders, IT teams, and external partners across regions.
• Support ServiceNow ITSM and ITBM usage for application lifecycle and service management.

Required Qualifications

• 8-10+ years of experience in enterprise application architecture or equivalent roles in complex, global environments.
• Extensive SAP expertise is mandatory, with architecture-level understanding of SAP ERP landscapes.
• Proven experience integrating SAP with MES, PLM, legacy ERP, and cloud platforms.
• Strong knowledge of enterprise integration technologies and patterns.
• Demonstrated experience in process mapping, application rationalization, and system consolidation.
• Solid understanding of application lifecycle management, security, and compliance.
• Fluent in English, written and spoken.
• Excellent communication, leadership, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to work effectively in distributed, multicultural teams.

Preferred Qualifications & Certifications

• SAP Certifications (e.g., SAP S/4HANA Architecture, SAP Technology Associate, SAP BTP).
• TOGAF or equivalent enterprise architecture certification.
• Experience in manufacturing or industrial environments.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or GCP) and microservices architectures.
• Executive-level presentation and influencing skills.
• Ability to translate business strategy into pragmatic, scalable technology solutions

What Success Looks Like

• A simplified, modernized enterprise application landscape centered on SAP.
• Reduced application redundancy and improved integration reliability.
• Clear and adopted enterprise architecture standards across IT and delivery partners.
• A scalable data foundation supporting analytics, reporting, and future innovation.