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United States
Onsite
This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for an Enterprise Applications Architect based in the United States.
The Enterprise Applications Architect will shape the strategy, architecture, and long-term evolution of a broad portfolio of enterprise business applications. This senior, hands-on individual-contributor role combines strategic planning with technical design, application administration, security governance, and advanced operational support. You will define future-state architectures, integration standards, lifecycle roadmaps, and environment strategies that support business objectives. Working closely with business leaders, IT teams, vendors, and external partners, you will translate complex requirements into secure, scalable, and reliable technology solutions. You will also lead technical initiatives involving modernization, upgrades, migrations, and system integrations. This position offers the opportunity to influence enterprise-wide technology decisions while remaining directly involved in the platforms and solutions you oversee.
In this role, you will provide technical leadership and architectural governance across enterprise applications while ensuring the reliability, security, and continuous improvement of assigned platforms. Key responsibilities include:
- Application Strategy and Architecture
Define and maintain application lifecycle strategies, future-state architectures, and multi-year technology roadmaps.
Monitor vendor roadmaps, product releases, support requirements, end-of-life dates, and technology risks.
Evaluate cloud, hosted, and on-premises deployment options based on business needs, security, resilience, cost, and long-term suitability.
Recommend upgrades, migrations, replacements, and modernization initiatives.
Maintain architecture documentation, system diagrams, integration maps, technical decisions, standards, and operating procedures.
- Business Process and Solution Design
Collaborate with business leaders and process owners to understand operational requirements and identify improvement opportunities.
Translate business needs into practical application, workflow, configuration, security, and integration solutions.
Present solution options, dependencies, trade-offs, risks, and recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Prioritize standard platform capabilities and existing tools before introducing custom components or additional technologies.
- Enterprise Application Ownership and Administration
Provide advanced administration, technical oversight, and operational support for assigned enterprise applications.
Manage configurations, environments, releases, upgrades, patches, and technical dependencies.
Monitor and improve application availability, performance, reliability, recoverability, and user experience.
Provide Tier I–II administration and support for assigned services and act as a Tier III escalation point for complex technical issues.
Investigate incidents, coordinate escalations, identify recurring problems, and implement lasting corrective actions.
Support platforms that may include ERP, HRIS, payroll, time collection, expense management, project and construction applications, reporting services, and secure file transfer technologies.
- Integration Architecture and Data Exchange
Establish enterprise integration architectures, standards, and reusable patterns for APIs, middleware, orchestration, secure file transfer, batch interfaces, and data synchronization.
Design integrations between enterprise applications and third-party platforms.
Develop technical requirements and designs for solutions delivered by internal developers, vendors, consultants, and implementation partners.
Evaluate and recommend integration technologies and platforms.
Review completed integrations to ensure alignment with architecture, security, documentation, monitoring, support, and recovery requirements.
Troubleshoot interface failures and improve integration stability, performance, and resilience.
- Application Security and Governance
Design and govern application security models, including roles, privileges, role-based access, segregation of duties, provisioning standards, and auditability.
Translate business and security requirements into application permissions and technical controls.
Manage user provisioning, access modifications, deprovisioning, roles, and permissions for specifically assigned applications.
Establish and maintain application architecture, configuration, integration, and security standards.
Work with Information Security, Infrastructure, Data, Internal Audit, and business teams to identify and mitigate risks.
Maintain documentation and evidence supporting application access and integration security controls.
- Environment, Resilience, and Recovery
Define and maintain environment strategies covering development, testing, quality assurance, production, disaster recovery, and failover.
Coordinate the creation and maintenance of non-production environments for upgrades, integrations, troubleshooting, and testing.
Own technical recovery and failover architecture for assigned applications.
Coordinate recovery and failover testing, document results, and lead remediation of technical gaps.
Ensure environment configurations, dependencies, and operating procedures remain accurate and supportable.
- Technical Leadership and Project Delivery
Lead technical workstreams for application upgrades, migrations, implementations, replatforming, data-center moves, and modernization initiatives.
Manage selected technical application projects when appropriate to their scope and available resources.
Coordinate external consultants, developers, vendors, implementation partners, and managed service providers.
Define technical requirements, deliverables, standards, and acceptance criteria for external resources.
Review technical deliverables for quality, completeness, documentation, and alignment with approved architecture.
Manage technical discussions with software vendors and service partners regarding roadmaps, upgrades, supportability, end-of-life events, and escalations.
Promote knowledge transfer and sustainable internal processes when external resources are involved.
The ideal candidate combines strong enterprise application architecture expertise with hands-on administration, integration, security, and technical project leadership experience. You should be comfortable working independently, managing complex technical challenges, and communicating effectively across business and technology teams.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or a related technology field, or 6–8 years of relevant experience in lieu of a degree.
At least 5 years of experience supporting business applications within an IT organization.
Experience with a major ERP platform, such as Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, Oracle Fusion, SAP, Microsoft Dynamics, or a comparable enterprise solution.
Demonstrated ability to develop application roadmaps, lifecycle strategies, future-state architectures, and modernization plans.
Strong integration architecture experience involving APIs, middleware, orchestration, secure file transfer, batch processing, and data exchange.
Hands-on experience with application configuration, environment management, security administration, role-based access, user provisioning, and production support.
Experience directing or coordinating developers, consultants, vendors, implementation partners, or managed service providers.
Strong troubleshooting, analytical, documentation, and problem-solving skills.
Excellent communication and stakeholder-management abilities, with the capacity to explain technical concepts and trade-offs to non-technical audiences.
Ability to independently structure ambiguous work, prioritize competing demands, and lead technical initiatives through completion.
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience with Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne architecture, administration, integrations, or CNC responsibilities.
Background in ERP modernization, major upgrades, platform migrations, cloud adoption, or data-center relocations.
Familiarity with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, JD Edwards Orchestrator, GoAnywhere, Boomi, or comparable technologies.
Experience supporting enterprise applications in project-based, engineering, construction, or field-services environments.
Additional Requirements:
Willingness to travel up to 15% as required.
Ability to remain stationary for extended periods, climb stairs, and perform repetitive hand and wrist movements.
Ability to perform light physical work, including moving objects weighing up to 20 pounds.
Ability to work effectively in a quiet environment.
Reasonable accommodations may be provided to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions.
Annual salary range of $116,860–$155,995, depending on qualifications, experience, and other relevant factors.
Full-time employment.
Remote work opportunity.
Career development and opportunities for professional growth.
Supportive and collaborative work environment.
Culture that encourages innovation, continuous learning, and creative problem-solving.
Inclusive workplace that values diverse perspectives and contributions.
