ERP Data & Integration Lead / Architect

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Position: ERP Data & Integration Lead / Architect

Location: Sacramento, CA - Remote/Hybrid (potentially 1 day per week in office)

Duration: 12+ Months

Job Description:

Position Summary

The ERP Modeernization Lead / Enterprise Architect will lead ERP modernization planning activities supporting a large-scale ERP solicitation and replacement initiative.

The role will assess the organization's existing platform landscape, integrations, system dependencies, data quality, governance practices, and migration readiness to determine the work necessary to transition from a highly customized legacy ERP ecosystem to a modern enterprise platform.

The individual will collaborate closely with ERP program leadership, enterprise architecture, business stakeholders, application teams, and technical SMEs to develop a practical data and integration roadmap.

Key Responsibilities

Lead assessment of the current ERP data and integration environment.

Document current data architecture, interfaces, integrations, data flows, APIs, batch processes, and system dependencies.

Develop and maintain inventories of systems and integrations connected to the legacy ERP environment.

Assess data quality, completeness, consistency, duplication, and readiness for migration.

Identify legacy data requiring cleansing, remediation, standardization, archiving, conversion, or migration.

Evaluate existing data-governance practices and identify opportunities to strengthen ownership, standards, quality controls, and accountability.

Assess dependencies across Finance, Human Resources, Custom Resource Management Solutions, and other enterprise systems.

Identify risks associated with legacy applications, custom integrations, reporting solutions, and downstream/upstream dependencies.

Develop recommendations for data readiness, migration planning, integration rationalization, and modernization.

Support development of future-state data and integration architecture principles.

Develop an ERP data and integration readiness roadmap.

Collaborate with business analysts to ensure business requirements and process changes appropriately address data and integration needs.

Support ERP solution evaluation by assessing proposed platforms against integration and data requirements.

Participate in RFP development, vendor evaluation, solution demonstrations, and technical assessments as appropriate.

Coordinate with security, infrastructure, identity/access management, reporting/analytics, CRM, LMS, document-management, and other enterprise technology teams.

Provide findings, risks, recommendations, and technical decision materials to program and executive leadership.

Minimum Qualifications

At least five (5) years of experience advising executive tier management regarding all aspects of ERP lifecycle phases.

At least ten (10) years of experience in a technical, data-centric role in complex enterprise environments.

At least five (5) years of experience supporting ERP implementations, ERP modernization/replacement, or enterprise application transformation, including data and integration planning.

At least five (5) years of experience with data migration, data profiling, data quality, cleansing, transformation, mapping, reconciliation, and/or conversion planning.

At least five (5) years of experience assessing and documenting interfaces, integrations, data flows, system dependencies, APIs, batch processes, and legacy application dependencies.

At least three (3) years of experience leading or implementing data governance, data standards, data-quality controls, master/reference data practices, or enterprise data-management frameworks.

Desirable Qualifications Project leadership experience involving a variety of ERP platforms such as PeopleSoft, Workday, Oracle Cloud, or comparable SaaS ERP platforms.

Experience assessing and rationalizing a highly customized legacy ERP ecosystem with numerous downstream and upstream integrations.

Experience in large-scale, higher education environments involving Finance, HR/HCM, and Student/SIS environments.

Experience in California public-sector enterprise environments.

Experience developing ERP data-readiness assessments, migration strategies, integration roadmaps, or implementation-readiness recommendations prior to solution implementation.

Experience integrating ERP environments with CRM, LMS, document management, identity/access management, reporting/analytics, or other enterprise platforms.

Ideal Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate demonstrates executive level consulting skills utilizing enterprise architecture expertise with hands-on knowledge of ERP data migration and integration complexity. This person should be highly experienced in legacy modernization, uses experience to uncover hidden dependencies, translates technical findings to all levels of the organization, and capable of leading a diverse team to a successful ERP implementation.