Enterprise Architect

Job#: 2068851

Job Description:

ID: 2068851

Apex Systems is looking to hire a Enterprise Architect on a fulltime basis.

Intro:

Our vision is to be an agile, innovative, and unified supply chain partner that delivers a superior customer experience, improves the lives of our teammates and community, and produces best-in-class returns.

Job Description:

Responsible for aligning business strategy with IT capabilities, optimizing operational processes, and providing business-driven architectural guidance for the organization. Map business goals to technology strategies while ensuring that enterprise architecture evolves to meet current and future needs.

Must-Haves:

• Develop and maintain the business architecture blueprint for the supply chain, aligning with the company's strategic goals and objectives.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to analyze, design, and implement business processes and systems that improve the efficiency and performance of the supply chain.
• Define and maintain business capability models, value streams, customer journeys, and process architectures.
• Partner with IT and business stakeholders to ensure business requirements are translated into effective IT solutions.
• Conduct current-state analysis of business architecture and recommend future-state business capabilities, processes, and organizational changes.
• Facilitate workshops and discussions with key business leaders to document strategic business goals and requirements.
• Ensure that business architecture is integrated with enterprise architecture frameworks and roadmaps.
• Identify opportunities for technology solutions to support process improvements in the supply chain, including automation and advanced analytics.
• Provide business architectural oversight and governance for strategic IT and digital transformation initiatives.
• Act as a thought leader in enterprise architecture, bringing best practices in business architecture from both the supply chain industry and other sectors.
• Collaborate with solution architects and technical teams to ensure alignment between business and IT solutions.
• Evaluate emerging technology trends and their impact on supply chain operations and business processes.
• Support the creation of business cases, ROI analyses, and cost-benefit analyses to prioritize business and IT initiatives.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in information technology, business administration, supply chain management, or a related field. A master's degree is preferred.
• Seven or more years of experience in business architecture, enterprise architecture, or related roles, with a strong focus on the supply chain industry.
• Proven experience in designing and implementing business capability models, value streams, customer journeys, and business process optimization in supply chain operations.
• Proven experience leading and collaborating with business and IT cross-functional teams in complex transformation projects and road mapping efforts for business outcomes.
• Experience in driving optimization of application portfolios.
• Strong understanding of end-to-end supply chain processes including procurement, production, distribution, and logistics.
• Experience with enterprise architecture frameworks such as The Open Group Architectural Framework (TOGAF), Zachman, or similar.
• Familiarity with enterprise business platforms (e.g., Enterprise Resource Planning, Transportation, Logistics, Salesforce).
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to link business objectives to IT strategies.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence at all levels of the organization.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms (e.g. Amazon Web Service, Azure, Google Cloud Platform) and their role in enabling agile supply chain operations is preferred.
• Prior experience in large scale digital transformation and enterprise architecture strongly preferred.

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Apex Systems is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico.

Apex Benefits Overview: Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Apex team member can provide.