Enterprise Architect

Pathfinder Recruitment; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 111,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

Pathfinder Recruitment is seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect for a 90-day discovery project in Liverpool. The role focuses on shaping data architecture across manufacturing, warehousing, and distribution, identifying sources of truth, and defining an actionable target state with an integration layer.

This strategic assignment requires collaboration with senior stakeholders and suppliers to produce a blueprinted roadmap.

Qualifications

• Data architecture within manufacturing or distribution.

Responsibilities

• Define current environment, data ownership, and a simpler target architecture.
• Develop a practical implementation roadmap outlining changes and sequencing.

Skills

Data architecture

Data governance

Integration architecture

SAP

Salesforce

SAP Business One

Microsoft Power BI

AWS & cloud

Stakeholder engagement

Tools

SAP

Salesforce

SAP Business One

Power BI

Job description

Enterprise Architect

90-day contract - Outside IR35
Day Rate: Market Rate (Negotiable)

Liverpool

An international manufacturing and distribution business is looking for an experienced Enterprise Architect to bring structure to a complex and fragmented data environment.

The company designs and manufactures its own products, manages inventory and warehousing, and sells through direct, partner, eCommerce and marketplace channels. Its systems have developed over time, creating duplicated data and multiple point-to-point integrations across manufacturing, shop floor, product, stock, finance, CRM, reporting and fulfilment.

Your role as the Enterprise Architect will be to establish exactly how the current environment operates, identify where data should be owned and define a simpler target architecture based on clear systems of record, a single source of truth and a controlled integration layer.

The outcome will be a verified view of the current systems, integrations and data flows, an agreed future architecture, and a practical implementation roadmap setting out what needs to change, in what order, and what will be required to deliver it.

This is a strategic discovery and architecture project, not an implementation role. You will need to understand the detailed technical environment while producing a clear blueprint that can be implemented by other teams.

We are looking for experience in:

• Data architecture within manufacturing or distribution
• Manufacturing, warehousing, logistics and Shop Floor Information Systems
• Data discovery, systems mapping and data analysis
• Master data, systems of record and data governance
• Integration architecture, APIs and complex data flows
• SAP or Salesforce, ideally SAP Business One
• Microsoft Power BI
• Current state and target state architecture
• Strategic roadmap development
• Senior stakeholder and supplier engagement
• Experience of AWS and mixed cloud, on-premise and externally managed systems would be useful.

The project is based in Liverpool, and will require onsite stakeholder engagement during the discovery process. There is potential for a longer-term requirement providing architectural direction and oversight as the roadmap moves into delivery.