Enterprise Applications Architect

Key Responsibilities

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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

• 810 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.