Enterprise Architect

Job summary

The Enterprise Architect will lead build vs. buy evaluations, manage the enterprise application portfolio, and define API-first architecture patterns to ensure scalable business growth. They will also partner cross-functionally to align domain-level decisions with enterprise standards while championing AI-augmented workflows.

Job details

Role: Enterprise Architect Position Type: Full-Time Contract (40hrs/week) Contract Duration: 6 months+ Work Hours: 9:00am to 6:00pm PST Work Schedule: 8 hours/day (Mon-Fri) Location: 100% Remote Enterprise Architect POSITION SUMMARY This is a high-growth, high-performance company that moves fast by design. Our architecture needs to keep pace — not by slowing the business down with governance overhead, but by building the thinking and patterns that let us scale without breaking. The Enterprise Architect is the person who holds the long view while everyone else is executing in the short. They bring legitimate frameworks to a team that doesn’t always speak that language yet — translating architecture discipline into the vernacular of our business: what it costs, who owns it, and what we’re building toward. This is a senior individual contributor role with broad cross-functional reach and significant influence without formal authority. This role is not advisory. It is not governance. It is a hands-on, outcomes-oriented position for someone who can ideate and land the plane. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES Architecture Strategy & Decision Leadership • Lead build vs. buy evaluations end-to-end: structured analysis, clear recommendation, accountable follow-through. Options are an input; a decision is the deliverable. • Own and maintain the enterprise application portfolio — capability maps, cost models, rationalization recommendations, and TCO discipline that drives real action, not slide decks. • Define and advance composable, API-first architecture patterns that reduce re-platforming risk and increase solution modularity over time. • Engage early on priority initiatives to evaluate solution options, pressure-test assumptions, and ensure new capabilities fit the broader landscape. Cross-Functional Partnership • Serve as a heavy partner to the data architecture function — bringing enterprise lineage perspective when data sprawl needs tracing, without taking ownership from the data team. • Participate as the enterprise architecture voice in integration design and iPaaS strategy discussions (MuleSoft, SAP CPI); provide direction grounded in portfolio-level thinking, not just point-to-point solutions. • Collaborate with SAP S/4HANA and SaaS solution architects to align domain-level decisions with enterprise standards and roadmap. • Translate fluidly between technology and business stakeholders across supply chain, finance, and commercial functions. Capability Building • Informally elevate the broader community of architect-adjacent practitioners across the enterprise — introducing frameworks, normalizing vocabulary, and growing collective maturity through the work itself. • Champion MVP-first architecture thinking: identify what’s needed now, what can wait, and how to position today’s decisions for tomorrow’s scale. • Model and advance AI-augmented ways of working within the EA function to compress delivery cycle times on traditionally slow outputs. QUALIFICATIONS Required • 8+ years of enterprise or solution architecture experience with a track record of owning decisions end-to-end, not just advising on them • Demonstrated experience with ERP ecosystems — SAP S/4HANA specifically; knows where the seams are and what breaks at scale • Integration architecture exposure sufficient to hold a substantive point of view in the room (MuleSoft, SAP CPI, Boomi, or equivalent) • Application rationalization experience with real data: cost models, capability assessments, and retirement recommendations that were implemented • Fluency in BPM and process architecture — ability to read a broken process and determine whether technology is the solution or the symptom • Working knowledge of EA frameworks (TOGAF, Zachman, or equivalent) applied pragmatically, not ceremonially • Demonstrated ability to influence without authority across technical and business stakeholders • Experience in a high-growth, fast-moving operating environment — not just consulting engagements into one • Active, practical use of AI tools (Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, etc.) to accelerate architecture work — fit-gap analysis, documentation, pattern generation Preferred • Experience in CPG, retail, or similarly fast-cycle consumer industries • Exposure to composable architecture and MACH principles • Familiarity with Coupa or comparable indirect procurement platforms • Prior experience upskilling or informally leading a distributed architect community COMPETENCY PROFILE Altitude Flex Moves fluidly from executive strategy to schema-level detail within the same week without losing the thread at either level. Breadth-to-Depth Range Can run wide across the enterprise landscape and drill into a single domain when the problem demands it. Knows which mode is needed when. Pragmatic Framework Use Applies TOGAF, Zachman, and related patterns as tools, not doctrine. Names the pattern without requiring the organization to learn the acronym. Delivery Accountability Owns the outcome of a recommendation, not just the quality of the options. Tracks decisions through to implementation. Informal Influence Shifts how teams think through credibility, pattern-setting, and collaborative problem solving — not organizational authority. Communicates Both Ways Delivers the so-what for the executive and the spec for the engineer. Often in the same week. A NOTE ON AI We expect genuine fluency — not familiarity. This means actively using AI to compress the parts of EA that are traditionally slow: landscape documentation, fit-gap analysis, vendor evaluation prep, pattern generation. We’re not hiring someone to build AI products. We’re hiring someone who uses it as a force multiplier so that classic EA outcomes — the ones that used to take months — happen faster. If your answer to “how do you use AI in your work” is “I’ve been experimenting with it,” we’ll keep looking.

What you’ll do

The Enterprise Architect will lead build vs. buy evaluations, manage the enterprise application portfolio, and define API-first architecture patterns to ensure scalable business growth. They will also partner cross-functionally to align domain-level decisions with enterprise standards while championing AI-augmented workflows.

Requirements

Candidates must have 8+ years of enterprise or solution architecture experience, specifically with SAP S/4HANA and integration platforms like MuleSoft or SAP CPI. Proficiency in EA frameworks, application rationalization, and the practical application of AI tools to accelerate architecture delivery is required.

Listed skills

• Stakeholder Management · Preferred

Other relevant skills

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• Enterprise Architecture
• SAP S/4HANA
• Integration Architecture
• MuleSoft
• SAP CPI
• Application Rationalization
• BPM
• TOGAF
• Zachman
• Composable Architecture
• AI Tools
• Strategic Planning
• Stakeholder Management
• Data Architecture
• Cloud Strategy

Job areas

• Technology
• Consulting
• Software
• Management & Leadership
• Retail

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