Position Overview
We are seeking an Enterprise Architect to shape and guide the technology architecture that supports our manufacturing operations and digital transformation strategy across international sites. This role serves as a strategic bridge between business functions, plant operations, Operational Technology (OT), and corporate IT worldwide.
The Enterprise Architect reports to the Head of Enterprise Applications and works closely with the Head of Infrastructure, the Security team, and the IT Digital Transformation Partners group.
You will design and govern a secure, resilient, and scalable enterprise architecture built primarily on the Microsoft ecosystem, including Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management, Azure data and integration services, and relevant Azure IoT capabilities. This is a hands-on architecture role: you will engage directly in discovery, design, technical reviews, and problem-solving while setting architecture direction and governance.
The role supports global standards and shared capabilities while accounting for legitimate regional, regulatory, and operational requirements. You will help connect manufacturing operations, supply chains, enterprise applications, and data across regions into a cohesive environment. The successful candidate brings manufacturing and supply chain knowledge, a global mindset, and the ability to turn business priorities into practical architecture roadmaps and solution designs.
Key Responsibilities
Set architecture strategy and roadmap
- Develop and maintain a multi-year enterprise and IT/OT architecture roadmap aligned with business strategy, manufacturing priorities, and digital transformation goals across regions and sites.
- Translate business objectives into target architectures, reference designs, standards, and practical transition plans.
- Hands on: Lead architecture discovery sessions and working meetings; document current-state and target-state architectures, key decisions, dependencies, and transition steps.
- Support factory modernization, Industry 4.0 initiatives, automation, and end-to-end global supply chain visibility.
- Maintain a holistic view of business capabilities, applications, data, integrations, infrastructure, and technology dependencies across the enterprise.
- Balance global standards with appropriate regional, regulatory, and operational requirements.
- Identify opportunities to simplify the technology landscape, reduce duplication and technical debt, and improve reuse and supportability.
Guide Dynamics 365 and ERP architecture
- Provide architecture leadership for the enterprise’s Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management (F&O/SCM) environment.
- Promote a consistent global core template while assessing and governing justified localizations for regulatory, tax, currency, language, and operational requirements.
- Guide fit-to-standard decisions, configuration, extensions, integrations, and platform lifecycle planning.
- Hands on: Review D365 solution designs and configuration proposals; map business requirements to standard platform capabilities; assess extensions, integrations, and data impacts; and document architecture decisions.
- Partner with Finance, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, and regional teams to align business processes and technology decisions.
- Assess proposed platforms and customizations against business requirements, architecture standards, security, supportability, cost, and long-term impact.
- Help maintain a cohesive application landscape by managing dependencies, integrations, customizations, and platform decisions against a clear enterprise architecture and roadmap—reducing avoidable redesign and rework.
