IT Director of Architecture

About the Role

Patrick Industries, a publicly traded company headquartered in Elkhart, Indiana, invites you to join a team of dedicated professionals passionate about delivering high-quality products and exceptional customer service. As a leading solutions provider serving diverse markets across the United States, our commitment to innovation, quality, and sustainability has positioned us as a high-growth, diversified organization with over 10,000 team members. This role operates within a manufacturing-centric environment, requiring strong collaboration with IT delivery teams, ERP leadership, operations, and finance to ensure technology decisions are pragmatic, cost-effective, and aligned with real-world operational needs.

Responsibilities

• Enterprise Architecture & Fit-for-Purpose Design
  • Define and maintain enterprise architecture principles that prioritize simplicity, standardization, and business alignment.
  • Ensure technology solutions are fit for purpose, avoiding unnecessary complexity while meeting operational, financial, and scalability requirements.
  • Translate business and operational needs into clear architectural patterns and reference architecture across infrastructure, applications, data, and integration.
• Technology Governance & Decision Frameworks
  • Create, own, and operate a technology governance and approval model covering architecture reviews, design authority, technology selection, lifecycle decisions, exceptions, technical debt, and modernization prioritization.
  • Establish clear standards and guardrails that enable speed while preventing fragmentation and redundancy.
  • Partner with delivery and ERP leadership to ensure governance accelerates outcomes rather than becoming a bottleneck.
• Modernization & Standards Ownership
  • Own the enterprise modernization strategy, including legacy rationalization, technical debt reduction, cloud/platform/infrastructure modernization standards, and alignment with DevOps and modern operating models.
  • Define and maintain technology standards, patterns, and roadmaps to guide consistent implementation across teams.
  • Ensure modernization decisions are economically justified and operationally sound.
• Cross-Pillar Architecture Leadership
  • Operate horizontally across technology pillars, including infrastructure and cloud platforms, enterprise applications (including ERP ecosystems), integration and data platforms, and end-user/operational technologies.
  • Ensure architectural coherence across domains, avoiding siloed decision-making.
• CMDB Strategy & Ownership
  • Define and own the CMDB strategy, taxonomy, and governance model, ensuring it is accurate, trusted, and actively used.
  • Establish standards for CI definition, relationships, ownership, and lifecycle management.
  • Partner with infrastructure, application, and service teams to ensure continuous CMDB data quality and relevance.
  • Enable CMDB usage to support impact analysis, change management, asset management, and resilience planning.
• Business & Industry Alignment
  • Apply architectural thinking within the context of manufacturing and OEM component supply chains, including production environments, plant operations, supply chain variability, seasonality, cost sensitivity, and operational efficiency.
  • Act as a trusted advisor to IT and business leaders, translating architectural decisions into business impact.

Requirements

• 12+ years of experience in IT or Enterprise Architecture, with accountability for standards and cross-domain design.
• Proven experience establishing technology governance models and architectural decision frameworks.
• Hands-on experience across infrastructure, applications, cloud, and integration architectures.
• Demonstrated ownership of CMDB design, governance, or large-scale configuration management practices.
• Strong ability to balance strategic architecture with practical delivery constraints.
• Experience supporting manufacturing or industrial environments strongly preferred.
• Background in manufacturing, industrial, or outdoor recreation supply chains.
• Experience modernizing ERP-adjacent ecosystems (e.g., D365 or similar platforms).
• Familiarity with DevOps-aligned operating models and cloud-first architectures.
• Experience rationalizing legacy platforms and defining future-state roadmaps.

Skills

• High level of personal integrity (self-esteem, confidence, honesty, and respect).
• Self-motivated to work independently in a busy environment with changing priorities and the ability to adapt quickly.
• Solid project management skills.
• Alignment with Patrick Industries’ “BETTER Together” mentality by pursuing Balance, Excellence, Trust, Teamwork, Empowerment, and Respect within the organization.