Sr Director, Enterprise Architecture & AI Platforms

Business Unit Overview

Feeding the world is what we do – how we do it is unique. We are not your textbook consumer packaged goods company. While others may be slow to make change happen, Post continuously drives both inorganic and organic growth. Our history is evidence of that fact with over 100 years of heritage and growth from brands that transcend generations like Honey Bunches of Oats, Fruity Pebbles, Malt-O-Meal, Bob Evans, Kibbles 'n Bits, Egg Beaters, Peter Pan peanut butter and more. Our foodservice and ingredient businesses supply other products you love for brands, restaurants and stores.

We have more than 55 offices and manufacturing sites and approximately 13,000 employees. Over the past 13 years, Post has made 28+ acquisitions and innovative financial transactions and reached $8.2 billion in net sales in fiscal 2025. During turbulent times of market uncertainty, the food industry has provided a level of stability unlike other industries

Post Holdings, Inc. is a Fortune 500® company headquartered in Brentwood, a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri. Our casual professional atmosphere encourages team members to collaborate, innovate and support our operating companies. Our passion and drive advance the reputation of our operating companies and brands—together, we make a difference.

Responsibilities

At Post, our IT strategy is founded on five business objectives: driving EBITDA improvement, architecting for business agility and scalability, enabling data-driven decision making, fostering engaged and productive employees, and effectively managing IT risk.

The Senior Director, Enterprise Architecture, Integration and AI Platforms will lead the architecture strategy, governance, and execution model for Post’s enterprise capabilities, with particular emphasis on integration platforms, AI-enabled automation, agentic platform enablement, and scalable technology patterns that support corporate functions and shared enterprise services. This role will partner with corporate IT, business unit technology leaders, functional executives, vendors, and delivery teams to shape roadmaps, influence investment decisions, mature architecture practices, and build the capabilities required for Post’s current and future technology operating model. This position reports directly to the Chief Technology Officer.

Enterprise Architecture Strategy & Roadmaps

• Serve as the senior architecture leader for Post Holdings corporate and shared enterprise services, providing strategic direction, architecture governance, and trusted partnership to Business Unit technology leaders and their teams.
• Develop and recommend short- and long-term strategic roadmaps for enterprise architecture, integration, AI platform enablement, automation, and agentic capabilities, including application and technology portfolio rationalization, lifecycle management, modernization priorities, technical debt reduction, and measurable business value realization aligned with Post’s IT strategy, business objectives, risk posture, and enterprise growth priorities.
• Assess emerging technologies and platform capabilities, with emphasis on AI, automation, integration, and agentic solutions, translating market developments into practical investment recommendations, pilot opportunities, governance requirements, and enterprise adoption roadmaps.
• Use gap analysis, capability assessments, architecture reviews, technology portfolio analysis, and IT investment roadmaps to identify improvement opportunities, service risks, platform dependencies, modernization priorities, lifecycle risks, cost optimization opportunities, and alignment needs across corporate and enterprise technology initiatives.

Integration, AI & Automation Platforms

• Lead the strategy, implementation, governance, and ongoing maturity of enterprise integration platforms and patterns, including cloud ERP integration, API-led connectivity, event-driven architecture, data exchange, automation, and partner-managed delivery models.
• Establish the architecture strategy and enablement model for AI platforms, automation services, and agentic capabilities, including governance patterns, risk-based controls, reusable components, integration standards, security alignment, lifecycle management, model and agent oversight, compliance requirements, and practical adoption pathways for enterprise use cases.

Architecture Governance & Enterprise Delivery

• Establish and mature architecture best practices, governance forums, reference architectures, integration standards, AI and automation guardrails, architecture metrics, decision frameworks, tooling, documentation expectations, and operational processes for architecture services.
• Lead architecture function and decision-making across corporate system programs, shared enterprise platforms, integration initiatives, AI enablement efforts, automation opportunities, and other technology programs that require cross-functional alignment and enterprise-level design discipline.
• Design and lead technology initiatives for corporate and shared enterprise platforms, including infrastructure, applications, integrations, automation, AI enablement, and cross-platform architecture patterns that improve scalability, reliability, security, and business agility.

Stakeholder, Business Unit & Vendor Partnership

• Partner with program sponsors, functional leaders, technical stakeholders, vendors, and delivery teams to keep program objectives aligned, surface architectural risks, remove technical obstacles, communicate tradeoffs, and drive timely resolution of issues that affect enterprise outcomes.
• Lead through influence across corporate IT, Business Unit technology teams, functional leaders, vendors, and executive stakeholders by shaping direction, resolving ambiguity, building alignment, and mentoring leaders and teams across the broader IT organization.
• Manage integration partners, AI platform providers, automation partners, and other technology vendors to ensure Post’s requirements, architecture standards, security expectations, delivery commitments, cost-effectiveness, and long-term capability objectives are met.
• Hold vendors accountable for measurable service delivery outcomes, including quality, resource effectiveness, architecture alignment, knowledge transfer, documentation, reliability, security, cost optimization, and the ability to build sustainable internal capabilities.

Team Leadership & Capability Development

• Lead and develop a team of architects and platform specialists through coaching, mentoring, performance management, talent development, and operating model maturity, building a stronger architecture capability that can scale across enterprise priorities.

Qualifications

ROLE REQUIREMENTS

Education

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in business administration, Information Technology, or related field.

Experience

• 10+ years of progressive IT leadership experience across enterprise architecture, integration, infrastructure, applications, cloud platforms, or shared technology services.
• 7+ years of leadership roles and demonstrated success influencing senior stakeholders across a complex enterprise.
• Demonstrated experience leading enterprise integration platform strategy, implementation, governance, partner delivery, and operating model maturity across cloud, SaaS, ERP, data, API, and automation patterns.
• Expertise in cloud and on-premises application platforms, SaaS ecosystems, ERP and financial systems, enterprise integration technologies, API management, automation platforms, and AI-enabled services; experience establishing standards across hybrid enterprise environments preferred.
• Strong delivery leadership skills, including the ability to apply agile, waterfall, and hybrid delivery methods; manage architectural dependencies; guide prioritization; communicate tradeoffs; and drive execution through internal teams, business stakeholders, and external partners.
• Knowledge of common end-to-end business processes, including procure to pay, order to cash, record to report, hire to retire, supply chain planning and execution, manufacturing, maintenance, quality, inventory management, demand planning, procurement, logistics, warehousing, trade promotion, and other common CPG enterprise workflows.
• Ability to drive enterprise outcomes by influencing senior leaders, business stakeholders, technology peers, vendors, and cross-functional teams; builds alignment across Corporate and Business Unit priorities while leading through ambiguity, competing demands, and organizational change.
• Demonstrated executive presence and credibility with the ability to communicate effectively with senior leadership, functional executives, Business Unit technology leaders, business sponsors, vendors, and delivery teams.
• Experience with data management, analytics platforms, enterprise data integration, and data governance practices required to support reporting, automation, AI-enabled capabilities, decision support, and scalable enterprise platform design.
• High emotional intelligence, sound judgment, executive presence, and adaptive leadership capability, with the ability to lead teams and stakeholders through ambiguity, change, conflict, and competing enterprise priorities.

This is a hybrid role based in St. Louis, MO. In office days are Tuesday through Thursday. Work from home Mondays and Fridays.

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