Enterprise Applications Architect

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for an Enterprise Applications Architect based in the United States. The Enterprise Applications Architect will shape the strategy, architecture, and long-term evolution of a broad portfolio of enterprise business applications. This senior, hands-on individual-contributor role combines strategic planning with technical design, application administration, security governance, and advanced operational support. You will define future-state architectures, integration standards, lifecycle roadmaps, and environment strategies that support business objectives. Working closely with business leaders, IT teams, vendors, and external partners, you will translate complex requirements into secure, scalable, and reliable technology solutions. You will also lead technical initiatives involving modernization, upgrades, migrations, and system integrations. This position offers the opportunity to influence enterprise-wide technology decisions while remaining directly involved in the platforms and solutions you oversee. Accountabilities In this role, you will provide technical leadership and architectural governance across enterprise applications while ensuring the reliability, security, and continuous improvement of assigned platforms. Key responsibilities include: - Application Strategy and Architecture - Define and maintain application lifecycle strategies, future-state architectures, and multi-year technology roadmaps. - Monitor vendor roadmaps, product releases, support requirements, end-of-life dates, and technology risks. - Evaluate cloud, hosted, and on-premises deployment options based on business needs, security, resilience, cost, and long-term suitability. - Recommend upgrades, migrations, replacements, and modernization initiatives. - Maintain architecture documentation, system diagrams, integration maps, technical decisions, standards, and operating procedures.

- Business Process and Solution Design - Collaborate with business leaders and process owners to understand operational requirements and identify improvement opportunities. - Translate business needs into practical application, workflow, configuration, security, and integration solutions. - Present solution options, dependencies, trade-offs, risks, and recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders. - Prioritize standard platform capabilities and existing tools before introducing custom components or additional technologies. - Enterprise Application Ownership and Administration - Provide advanced administration, technical oversight, and operational support for assigned enterprise applications. - Manage configurations, environments, releases, upgrades, patches, and technical dependencies. - Monitor and improve application availability, performance, reliability, recoverability, and user experience. - Provide Tier I–II administration and support for assigned services and act as a Tier III escalation point for complex technical issues. - Investigate incidents, coordinate escalations, identify recurring problems, and implement lasting corrective actions. - Support platforms that may include ERP, HRIS, payroll, time collection, expense management, project and construction applications, reporting services, and secure file transfer technologies. - Integration Architecture and Data Exchange - Establish enterprise integration architectures, standards, and reusable patterns for APIs, middleware, orchestration, secure file transfer, batch interfaces, and data synchronization. - Design integrations between enterprise applications and third-party platforms. - Develop technical requirements and designs for solutions delivered by internal developers, vendors, consultants, and implementation partners. - Evaluate and recommend integration technologies and platforms.