Principal Enterprise Architect, Strategic Initiatives - ERP Program

The Principal Enterprise Architect, Strategic Initiatives is the architecture owner for the company’s largest multi-year business transformation programs, starting with the cloud ERP program replacing legacy ERP and boundary systems region by region, in waves. The role owns the end-to-end architecture of the initiative: the target state, the integration and data architecture that connects the ERP core to warehouse, transportation, labeling, plant, master data and finance systems, and the current-state architecture of every release and wave. It is the architecture voice in the program’s steering and design forums and the counterpart to the system integrators. The role is hands-on: it keeps the architecture current, reviews designs, settles cross-workstream conflicts and produces the roadmap options leadership decides on.

• Own the end-to-end architecture of the initiative: the ERP core, the boundary applications (warehouse, transportation, labeling, plant and quality, master data, tax, banking, EDI) and the integrations and data flows between them, across order-to-cash, source-to-pay, plan-to-produce and record-to-report
• Maintain the current-state architecture for every release and wave, version-controlled, so that the process, application and master-data changes from each deployment and retrofit are visible to the program, the business and the architecture community
• Own the target state and transition architecture for the remaining waves and regions: what moves when, what runs in parallel, what retires, and the global-template versus local-variant decisions
• Produce the roadmap options leadership decides on: sequence, pause, accelerate and consolidate scenarios with cost, risk, benefit and dependencies laid out for the steering committee
• Own integration and data-conversion architecture for the program: integration patterns between the cloud ERP and boundary systems, conversion and migration approach, master data flows and cut-over design, within enterprise integration and data standards
• Review solution designs from internal teams and system integrators for conformance to the program architecture and enterprise standards, and hold the integrators to it
• Own the non-functional architecture: performance, resilience, hypercare readiness and operability of the end-to-end flow, and the remediation plan when a release falls short
• Connect the initiative to the enterprise: align with the Principal Portfolio and Practice Architects so the program reuses enterprise platforms and retires legacy systems rather than adding to the landscape
• Serve as the architecture member of the program’s steering and design authority forums, and the escalation point for cross-workstream architecture conflicts
• Build the bench: transfer program architecture knowledge to Solution & Domain Architects so the initiative never again depends on one person

• Must be at least 18 years of age
• Must be legally authorized to work in the country of employmentwithout now or in the future requiring sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., OPT, CPT, H1B, EB-1, etc.)
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Information Technology, or in lieu of a degree, at least 18 years of experience in technology delivery
• 15+ years in technology, including 5+ years of hands-on software or systems engineering and 8+ years in architecture or deep technical leadership roles
• Lead architect on at least one full-lifecycle, multi-wave Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP or SCM program at enterprise scale (Financials, Procurement, Order Management, Supply Chain Planning, Manufacturing, Inventory), through go-live and hypercare. Advisory-only program experience does not qualify
• Deep knowledge of the boundary landscape around a cloud ERP: warehouse management, transportation management, labeling, plant and quality systems, master data management, tax and banking, and the integration patterns that connect them
• Hands-on experience with ERP integration and data conversion: Oracle Integration Cloud or equivalent middleware, Informatica or equivalent conversion tooling, master data flows and cut-over design
• Experience with multi-region rollouts: global template design, local variants, retrofits to earlier waves and version control of the architecture by release
• Track record of producing roadmap and scenario material for a steering committee and defending it, and of holding system integrators to an architecture, * TOGAF Level 2, CISSP, CEAP, CSA, CSEA