Senior Enterprise Architect

Border States

Senior Enterprise Architect at Border States overseeing enterprise architecture strategy and initiatives. Collaborating with technology leaders to ensure alignment with business objectives.

Posted 7/21/2026full-timeRemote • North Dakota • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $169,000 - $230,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in enterprise architecture, including defining standards, guiding ERP modernization, and integrating complex systems. Proficient in modern integration patterns, data governance, and aligning architecture decisions with business outcomes.

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Enterprise ArchitectureERP ModernizationAPI First PatternsData ArchitectureMaster Data Governance

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Hard Skills

Enterprise Architecture StandardsIntegration PatternsEvent-Driven ArchitectureArchitecture Decision ProcessesArchitecture Artifacts DevelopmentTechnical Debt ReductionPortfolio RationalizationSaaS EvaluationArchitecture CoE LeadershipCross-Domain Responsibility

Soft Skills

Business AcumenThought LeadershipCoachingCollaborationCommunication

Tools & Technologies

SAP S/4HANAAnalytics EnablementObservability ToolsIntegration PlatformsArchitecture Frameworks

Industry Keywords

Wholesale DistributionIndustrial DistributionManufacturing DistributionMulti-Site BusinessBranch-Heavy Business

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

ERP

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Partners with business and technology leaders to define enterprise architecture direction and ensure major initiatives reinforce business process performance, platform coherence, and long term scalability.
Defines and operates enterprise architecture standards, guardrails, and exception processes in coordination with the VP of Digital Transformation, CIO, Security, and domain leaders.
Provides thought leadership in modern architecture principles, technology modernization, and enterprise wide architectural coherence.
Evaluates SaaS platforms, vendors, and major solution designs for capability fit, integration complexity, identity and data implications, scalability, total cost of ownership, and long term portfolio alignment.
Develops and maintains architecture artifacts—including logical, business, integration, and functional diagrams—to support engineering, applications, and security teams.
Defines enterprise transition roadmaps for ERP, integration, data, analytics, and adjacent platforms, emphasizing clean core principles, technical debt reduction, and delivery sequencing.
Leads architecture reviews and recommendations for major initiatives, platform changes, new technologies, and cross domain designs, ensuring alignment with approved guardrails.
Advises senior leaders on tradeoffs involving reuse, scalability, complexity, risk, technical debt, and long term enterprise fit.
Translates current state capabilities into future state architecture and roadmap decisions in partnership with business, process, and domain leaders.
Establishes and governs ERP architecture guardrails for SAP modernization, including clean core principles, extensibility boundaries, and integration constraints.
Defines and governs enterprise integration standards, including API first patterns, event driven architecture, canonical data principles, observability, resilience, and lifecycle management.
Defines enterprise standards for master data ownership, stewardship models, domain boundaries, and governance mechanisms, and supports trustworthy analytics, certified KPIs, and semantic consistency.
Operates a fast, documented architecture decision and exception process and ensures governance remains lightweight, pragmatic, and delivery focused.
Defines architecture criteria for application portfolio rationalization, integration simplification, and technical debt visibility, and influences build/buy/reuse decisions through a business capability and enterprise value lens.
Leads a federated architecture operating model and Architecture CoE, raising architecture quality across domains through early engagement, coaching, and cross functional alignment.

Requirements

What you’ll need

4 Year STEM Degree or equivalent work experience required.
12+ years of progressive experience across enterprise architecture, solution architecture, or platform architecture, including significant cross-domain responsibility.
Demonstrated experience shaping enterprise architecture decisions across ERP, integration, applications, and data.
Proven success guiding ERP modernization or large enterprise platform transformation in a complex operating environment.
Strong experience with modern integration patterns, including APIs, event-driven architecture, service reuse, observability, and lifecycle management.
Strong fluency in data architecture, master data governance concepts, and analytics enablement.
Demonstrated ability to define architecture standards and decision processes that accelerate delivery rather than slow it down.
Strong business acumen and the ability to connect architecture decisions to operating model, risk, cost, and growth outcomes.
Experience in wholesale distribution, industrial distribution, manufacturing distribution, or another branch-heavy, inventory-intensive, multi-site business.
Experience with SAP S/4HANA environments and clean-core governance.
Experience working in a federated architecture model with domain architects or embedded architecture leadership.
Experience with post-merger integration patterns, portfolio rationalization, or enterprise platform simplification.
Familiarity with formal architecture frameworks and structured architecture description methods; practical outcomes matter more than certification alone.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health, Dental and Vision Benefits
Accident, Critical Illness, Hospital Indemnity
FSA & HSA
Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
Disability Benefits
401(k) Retirement Plan
Life Insurance
Employee Assistance Program
Paid Holidays
Paid Volunteer Time
Personal Leave time and more!