Senior Entreprise Architect ERP

Employment Type: Permanent Contract Duration: Why you will love working here At IATA, we represent over 350 airlines worldwide, striving to make aviation safer, smarter, more sustainable, and inclusive. • Our Values are not just words on a page - they are the energy behind everything we do: ONE IATA - We collaborate across teams, TRUSTED - We do the right thing, INNOVATIVE - We make tomorrow better, INCLUSIVE - We embrace diverse perspectives. • With over 30,000 courses available, we believe in continuous learning and support your growth in an ever-changing industry. • Diversity, equity, and inclusion are our priorities. We are certified by the Equal Salary Foundation, offering equal pay and family-friendly policies. • We encourage community involvement through volunteering and strive to make tomorrow better for aviation and our communities. We offer time off so you can support causes important to you. • We promote work-life balance with flexible work options, including remote and hybrid work, a generous 'work from abroad' policy, and you get your birthday off! About the team you are joining Reporting to the Head ERP Implementation and in collaboration with other stakeholders across IATA I&D and IATA Corporate Service teams, you will drive enterprise-level direction and governance of a multiyear, ERP (SAP) migration program delivered in partnership with one or more System Integrators. With a strong ERP domain background, you will be ensuring that technology investments deliver coherent, scalable, and business aligned outcomes. While day-to-day build activities will be led by SIs, you will ensure that all designs align with enterprise architecture standards, agreed roadmaps, and long-term business objectives. What your day would be like Serve as ERP Architecture Authority: Provide clear architectural direction for the SAP migration program, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards and guiding system integrators and internal teams. Translate Strategy into Architecture: Engage senior stakeholders to convert business objectives into ERP target capabilities, principles, and an actionable architecture roadmap. Own and Govern ERP Roadmap: Maintain alignment across processes, data, integrations, security, and infrastructure while providing assessment and recommendations on the deployment options. Validate Solution Designs: Review and approve SI-produced designs for compliance with SAP best practices, enterprise standards, data governance, and non-functional requirements. Ensure End-to-End Integrity: Oversee integration across SAP modules and surrounding systems, preventing siloed or fragmented implementations. Lead Data Architecture & Migration: Collaborate with Data Governance to define master data ownership, quality standards, and migration strategy, including cutover sequencing. We would love to hear from you if 8–10+ years in Enterprise Architecture roles for large-scale transformation programs, including deep ERP migration expertise (preferably SAP ECC → S/4HANA) and advanced application of Enterprise Architecture frameworks such as TOGAF. Deep expertise in ERP-centric landscapes, including processes, data, and integration design. Proven ability to govern System Integrators, manage transition architectures, technical debt, and multi-release risks. Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills to effectively support, guide, and collaborate with senior leaders and program sponsors. Travel Required: N Learn more about IATA’s role in the industry, our benefits, and the team at iata/careers/ . We are looking forward to hearing from you!