Enterprise Architect - IT

Purpose of the Role

Architecture Strategy and Governance

• Define the enterprise target-state architecture, multi-year technology roadmap, transition states, and technology investment recommendations.
• Chair the Architecture Review Board or Design Authority and maintain architecture decision records and decision rights.
• Define architecture principles, standards, reference architectures, and reusable design patterns.
• Maintain the application portfolio and technology catalogue while driving legacy rationalization and technical-debt reduction.
• Advise on build-versus-buy decisions, platform selection, and total cost of ownership.

Dynamics 365 and Application Architecture

• Own end-to-end solution architecture for D365 across Finance, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, and Sales.
• Govern D365 extensions, fit-to-standard adoption, environment strategy, ALM, release management, and deployments.
• Architect coexistence between legacy ERP platforms and D365 during rollout.
• Define localization, statutory, tax, multi-currency, performance, scalability, security, supportability, and licensing patterns.
• Provide oversight for CRM, HR, Procurement, Tax, Audit, and commercial applications.

Integration Architecture

• Define integration strategy for APIs, event-driven architecture, messaging, ETL/ELT, and B2B/EDI.
• Govern Azure Integration Services, API Management, Logic Apps, Service Bus, Event Grid, Power Platform, or equivalent iPaaS technologies.
• Set standards for data models, interfaces, error handling, monitoring, reconciliation, security, and observability.
• Maintain the enterprise interface catalogue and promote reusable integration patterns over point-to-point solutions.

Data, Analytics, and AI

• Define data architecture and analytics roadmaps using Microsoft Fabric, OneLake, lakehouse, warehouse, pipelines, real-time intelligence, and Power BI.
• Establish data layering, ownership, certified datasets, master data governance, lineage, cataloguing, classification, retention, and quality frameworks.
• Evaluate GenAI, Copilot, agentic AI, and machine-learning capabilities for enterprise adoption.
• Establish responsible-AI governance covering privacy, access control, human oversight, auditability, bias, hallucination controls, and cost management.
• Architect AI use cases for Finance, Supply Chain, Procurement, and Commercial functions and measure their business impact.

Cloud, Infrastructure, and Security

• Define primarily Azure-based cloud architecture covering landing zones, networking, identity, resilience, and cost management.
• Set standards for availability, scalability, performance, disaster recovery, and business continuity.
• Govern hybrid and edge requirements across manufacturing, warehousing, and distribution environments.
• Define identity and access architecture, including role design, segregation of duties, privileged access, and conditional access.
• Partner with Cybersecurity, Internal Audit, Risk, and Legal on regulatory, privacy, and audit requirements.

Delivery and Stakeholder Leadership

• Provide architectural assurance across projects and approve solution designs before build.
• Support business cases with architecture options, effort estimates, and total-cost-of-ownership analysis.
• Define technical evaluation criteria for RFPs and assess vendor and system-integrator proposals.
• Advise business and functional leaders, maintain architecture documentation, and mentor technical teams.
• The role is typically an individual contributor position with dotted-line technical leadership responsibilities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in IT, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field is required.
• A Master’s degree or MBA is preferred.
• Certifications such as TOGAF, D365 Solution Architect, Azure Solutions Architect, Microsoft Fabric, Azure AI, CISSP, CISM, ISO 27001, PMP, PRINCE2, or SAFe are highly desirable.

Experience

• Minimum 12 years of progressive IT experience, including at least 5 years in enterprise or solution architecture within large, complex organizations.
• Experience owning a major ERP implementation, with strong D365 experience preferred.
• Experience with modern data platforms and AI or GenAI solutions that reached production and delivered measurable business value.
• Experience working across multi-country, multi-currency environments and with senior executive and functional stakeholders.