Enterprise Architect
About the role
The Enterprise Architect will play a key role in establishing, documenting, and governing the technology standards that support Hunter Fan Company's IT organization. This role focuses on applications and data architecture, with additional responsibilities for reliability, resiliency, integration patterns, automation opportunities, and alignment with security best practices.
Responsibilities
Define, document, and maintain enterprise architecture standards across applications, data, integrations, automation, and supporting technology platforms.
Establish practical governance processes to ensure architecture standards are consistently applied across projects, enhancements, system changes, automation efforts, and technology decisions.
Partner with IT leadership to align architecture standards with ITIL-based processes, including change management, incident management, problem management, release management, and configuration management.
Review proposed system, integration, data, and automation changes for alignment with established standards.
Help create lightweight but effective architecture review processes that improve quality without slowing delivery unnecessarily.
Lead the documentation of Hunter Fan’s current-state application and data architecture.
Create and maintain architecture artifacts such as application inventories, system context diagrams, integration maps, data flow diagrams, interface documentation, process documentation, ownership models, and technology standards.
Identify undocumented systems, integrations, manual processes, automation dependencies, and technical risks.
Partner with IT teams to build a shared understanding of how systems, data, integrations, workflows, and automations interact across the environment.
Evaluate application architecture across enterprise systems and recommend improvements to standardization, maintainability, scalability, and supportability.
Support data architecture standards, including data ownership, system-of-record alignment, integration patterns, reporting dependencies, and data movement between systems.
Partner with data, application, and integration teams to reduce duplication, improve consistency, and strengthen data reliability.
Use process mining tools, methods, and insights to document current-state workflows, identify bottlenecks, analyze process performance, and uncover opportunities for standardization and improvement.
Partner with IT teams to identify opportunities for robotic process automation and other workflow automation solutions.
Help define standards and governance for automation design, documentation, ownership, support, monitoring, and change management.
Evaluate automation opportunities for scalability, maintainability, risk, and long-term fit within the broader technology architecture.
Assess critical applications, integrations, data flows, workflows, and automations for reliability, resiliency, supportability, and operational risk.
Recommend architecture improvements that reduce operational risk and improve system stability.
Support documentation of automation dependencies, data inputs and outputs, exception handling, business rules, and operational support models.
Collaborate with IT teams across applications, infrastructure, data, security, service management, integration, support, and automation.
Facilitate architecture discussions and translate technical complexity into clear recommendations.
Serve as a trusted technical advisor to IT leadership and project teams.
Promote consistency, documentation discipline, architecture awareness, and governance across the IT organization.
Qualifications
7+ years of experience in enterprise architecture, solution architecture, application architecture, data architecture, or a related IT architecture role.
Strong hands-on experience documenting current-state technology environments, including applications, integrations, data flows, workflows, automations, and system dependencies.
Experience defining and implementing architecture standards, governance processes, or technical design review practices.
Strong understanding of enterprise application architecture, integration patterns, data movement, and system lifecycle management.
Experience working in environments with multiple enterprise systems, integrations, reporting platforms, automation tools, and operational dependencies.
Familiarity with ITIL concepts and IT service management processes, especially change management.
Experience with process mining tools, methods, or initiatives to analyze process performance, identify bottlenecks, document current-state workflows, and support process improvement.
Experience with robotic process automation, including identifying automation opportunities, documenting automation requirements, supporting bot design, or governing RPA solutions.
Ability to work across technical teams and influence standards without direct management authority.
Strong written and visual documentation skills, including the ability to create clear diagrams, standards, inventories, process flows, automation documentation, and architecture artifacts.
Practical, hands-on approach with the ability to move between strategy, documentation, analysis, governance, and execution.
Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to identify architecture gaps, risks, automation opportunities, and opportunities for simplification.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with Infor LN or similar ERP platforms.
Experience with Microsoft Azure.
Experience with Power BI or enterprise reporting platforms.
Experience With ServiceNow Or Other ITSM Platforms.
Experience With Shopify or ecommerce platforms.
Experience With EDI, integration platforms, APIs, middleware, or file-based integration patterns.
Experience With process mining platforms such as Celonis, UiPath Process Mining, Microsoft Process Mining, SAP Signavio, or similar tools.
Experience With RPA platforms such as UiPath, Automation Anywhere, Microsoft Power Automate, Blue Prism, or similar tools.
Familiarity with SAML, identity management, access management, or authentication patterns.
Familiarity with common security frameworks and how they influence application, data, and automation architecture.
Experience in manufacturing, consumer products, distribution, retail, or supply chain-oriented environments.
Experience creating application inventories, architecture repositories, CMDB-related documentation, integration maps, process maps, automation inventories, or enterprise technology standards.