Enterprise Architect

Role: Enterprise Architect

Position Type: Full-Time Contract (40hrs/week)

Work Hours: 9:00am to 6:00pm PST

Work Schedule: 8 hours/day (Mon-Fri)

Location: 100% Remote

Enterprise Architect

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.