Senior Manager, IT Application Solution Management

We are seeking a senior technology leader responsible for building guiding and scaling a highperforming team of Functional Solution Architects who deliver innovative costeffective and scalable enterprise solutions. This leadership role goes beyond individual architecture execution its core mission is to drive architectural vision develop talent enforce standards and ensure functional and crossdomain alignment across major programs.

This leader will collaborate extensively with business partners product and engineering leaders and crossfunctional teams to ensure architectural consistency strategic alignment and longterm scalability across the organization.

Key Responsibilities

1. Leadership & Team Management

• Lead mentor and develop a team of Functional Solution Architects ensuring clarity of roles high performance technical depth and continuous professional growth.
• Establish architecture governance practices reusable frameworks and functional architectural standards adopted across programs.
• Provide coaching feedback goalsetting and succession planning to build longterm architectural capability within the organization.

2. Architecture Strategy & Oversight

• Define and own the overarching functional architecture vision and ensure architects work aligns with enterprise strategy and business outcomes.
• Review and approve highlevel functional architecture solution designs integration patterns and crossapplication data flows.
• Ensure all solution blueprints created by the team are scalable maintainable and aligned with enterprise principles.

3. CrossFunctional Influence & Stakeholder Management

• Serve as the primary functional architecture representative in discussions with business units program leadership PMO engineering and product teams.
• Champion functional alignment across domains and proactively influence decisions affecting process design system behavior and crossapplication interactions.
• Facilitate and oversee design workshops functional requirements alignment and crossteam architectural signoffs.

4. Technical Leadership & Governance

• Guide the team through complex architectural decisionmaking enforcing standards best practices and architectural integrity across programs.
• Oversee technical reviews across team deliverables ensuring compliance with performance security and regulatory expectations.
• Drive the identification and mitigation of architectural risks across multiple projects and portfolios.

5. Program & Delivery Support

• Ensure architects provide required support across discovery design development testing and rollout phases of enterprise initiatives.
• Serve as a senior escalation point for architecturerelated challenges conflicts or design decisions.
• Align team capacity and assignment strategy to program priorities ensuring the right architectural support at the right time.

6. Quality Assurance & Continuous Improvement

• Continuously evaluate existing systems and architectures to identify improvement opportunities and reduce functional or technical debt.
• Establish and promote reusable functional patterns reference models and standardized documentation.
• Monitor industry trends and emerging technologies to evolve the organizations architecture practices.

Qualifications

Education

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Technology Engineering or related field.
• Masters degree is preferred.

Experience

• 15 years of progressive experience in enterprise systems functional or solution architecture or largescale systems design.
• 35 years in a leadership role managing architects or technical design teams.
• Demonstrated success delivering largescale enterprise or multisystem solutions.
• Experience in MES MCS ERP or semiconductorrelated systems is a strong plus.
• Deep understanding of cloud ecosystems (AWS Azure GCP) microservices and enterprise integration.
• Strong background in Agile delivery and DevOpsaligned practices.

Skills

• Deep expertise in architectural design patterns (SOA microservices eventdriven cloudnative).
• Strong understanding of crossapplication functional design and enterprise integration frameworks.
• Exceptional communication and storytelling skills for explaining complex architectures to senior stakeholders.
• Highly developed problemsolving negotiation and conflictresolution abilities.
• Ability to balance multiple complex priorities while ensuring highquality architectural outcomes.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with Docker Kubernetes CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation.
• Familiarity with ITIL or enterprise service management frameworks.
• Architecture certifications (TOGAF AWS Azure etc.) are highly desirable.

Leadership & Soft Skills

• Inspirational leadership with the ability to elevate both people and architecture maturity.
• Ability to influence across diverse stakeholder groups including business engineering and executive leadership.
• Strong customer orientation and businessvalue mindset.
• Demonstrated ability to drive clarity alignment and delivery excellence across complex programs.