Enterprise Applications Architect

Malvern, PA, US • Posted 13 hours ago • Updated 37 minutes ago
Full Time
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Skills

  • Software Architecture
  • Roadmaps
  • IT Transformation
  • Scalability
  • Software Design
  • SAP Architecture
  • FOCUS
  • SAP PI
  • Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
  • Electronic Data Interchange
  • JDE
  • Epicor
  • Business Process
  • API
  • Middleware
  • Management
  • System Integration
  • MuleSoft
  • Optimization
  • SaaS
  • Streaming
  • Research and Development
  • Master Data Management
  • Data Governance
  • Data Quality
  • Information Lifecycle Management
  • Advanced Analytics
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Machine Learning (ML)
  • Use Cases
  • Mentorship
  • Collaboration
  • ServiceNow
  • IT Service Management
  • Software Development Methodology
  • Service Management
  • SAP ERP
  • MES
  • Plant Lifecycle Management
  • Product Lifecycle Management
  • Enterprise Resource Planning
  • Enterprise Integration
  • Process Mapping
  • Application Lifecycle Management
  • Regulatory Compliance
  • Fluency
  • English
  • Communication
  • Leadership
  • Stakeholder Management
  • SAP HANA
  • TOGAF
  • Manufacturing
  • Cloud Computing
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Amazon Web Services
  • Google Cloud
  • Google Cloud Platform
  • Microservices
  • Presentations
  • Business Strategy
  • Enterprise Software
  • SAP
  • Enterprise Architecture
  • Analytics
  • Reporting
  • Innovation

Summary

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 Google Cloud Platform) 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.
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  • Dice Id: RTL111746
  • Position Id: ee50f4babee538e1ccb1527786b6aad4
  • Posted 13 hours ago
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