ERP Architect

Insight Global; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Insight Global is seeking an Enterprise Architect focused on ERP to shape and govern the enterprise application landscape for a local manufacturing client, driving consistency in ERP usage and defining reusable patterns.

The role partners with BRMs, business leaders, product teams, and delivery teams to design scalable solutions across sales, service, finance, supply chain, manufacturing, and master data management, while reducing complexity and long-term risk.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in enterprise architecture and ERP solution architecture patterns.
• Hands-on knowledge of ERP platforms and core business capabilities they support.
• Strong understanding of integration architecture and API-led patterns.
• Ability to evaluate options using value, risk, cost and alignment criteria.
• Experience defining architecture standards, reference architectures and governance.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain ERP architecture direction aligned to strategy; ensure standards.
• Drive consistency with standard processes, designers, and reusable patterns.
• Partner with BRMs to translate business needs into ERP capabilities.
• Support vendor and platform evaluations for fit, data implications, and cost.
• Develop reference architectures and governance practices to accelerate delivery.

Skills

ERP Architecture

Enterprise Platforms

Integration Patterns

Security & Governance

Executive Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in information systems, computer science, business, or engineering

Job description

Insight Global is seeking an Enterprise Architect focused on an ERP platform to help shape, standardize, and govern the enterprise application landscape of a local manufacturing client. This role will drive consistency in how the core business platform is used, define reusable architecture patterns, support vendor and system evaluations, and ensure that ERP application and data integration, and related platform decisions align to enterprise strategy, business capabilities, and a services-based architecture approach.

The ideal candidate is a pragmatic enterprise architecture who understands how ERP systems enable end-to-end business processes across functions such as sales, service, finance, supply chain, manufacturing, customer engagement, and master data management. This person will partner closely with Business Relationship Managers, business leaders, product teams, solution architects, and delivery teams to design solutions that enable the business while reducing complexity, duplication, and long-term technical risk.

Day-to-Day

• Define and maintain enterprise architecture direction for ERP and related enterprise application platforms, ensuring alignment to Donaldson business strategy, operating models, and technology standards.
• Drive consistency in the use of ERP capabilities by establishing standard processes, common design principles, reusable patterns, and clear guidance for where customization, configuration, application and data integration, or process change is appropriate.
• Partner with business stakeholders and BRMs to understand business needs, translate them into enterprise-aligned capabilities, and guide solution options that enable scalable, supportable, and cost-effective outcomes.
• Support vendor, platform, and system evaluations by assessing functional fit, architecture fit, integration complexity, data implications, security posture, lifecycle cost, and long-term enterprise alignment.
• Develop reference architectures, decision frameworks, and reusable solution patterns that accelerate delivery while reducing duplication and unnecessary point-to-point integrations.
• Provide architecture leadership for complex, cross-functional initiatives involving ERP, customer experience, field service, finance, manufacturing, supply chain, data, analytics, and integration platforms.
• Ensure enterprise solutions leverage core services provided by ERP platforms where appropriate, including identity, workflow, approvals, product/customer/vendor master data, order management, pricing, billing, service management, reporting, and process orchestration.
• Guide solution teams through architecture reviews, design decisions, and trade-off analysis to balance business value, speed of delivery, platform fit, security, scalability, maintainability, and total cost of ownership.
• Collaborate with security, data, infrastructure, integration, and application teams to ensure ERP solutions meet enterprise standards for resilience, compliance, data governance, and operational support.
• Identify opportunities to simplify the application portfolio, retire redundant capabilities, consolidate processes, and modernize legacy integrations or custom solutions.
• Help mature architecture governance by documenting standards, leading design discussions, coaching solution architects, and promoting enterprise reuse across programs and business units.

Required Skills and Experience

• Significant experience in enterprise architecture, ERP solution architecture patterns and service, application architecture, or a related technology leadership role supporting large-scale enterprise systems.
• Hands-on knowledge of ERP platforms and the business capabilities they commonly support, including order-to-cash, procure-to-pay, record-to-report, plan-to-produce, customer service, sales, marketing, field service, and master data processes.
• Strong understanding of integration architecture, including API-led integration, event-driven patterns, service orchestration, batch processing, data synchronization, canonical models, and middleware or integration platform concepts.
• Demonstrated ability to evaluate technology options, vendor platforms, and solution alternatives using business value, architecture fit, risk, cost, complexity, and enterprise alignment criteria.
• Experience defining architecture standards, reusable patterns, reference architectures, and governance practices for enterprise platforms.
• Ability to lead complex solution discussions across business and IT stakeholders, including executives, BRMs, product owners, architects, developers, data teams, and infrastructure teams.
• Strong communication and facilitation skills with the ability to explain technical trade-offs in business terms and guide stakeholders toward practical decisions.
• Working knowledge of security, data governance, compliance, identity, resiliency, and operational support considerations for enterprise applications.

Nice to Have Skills and Experience

• Experience with major ERP ecosystems such as Oracle, SAP, Microsoft Dynamics, Salesforce, or comparable enterprise platforms.
• Experience in manufacturing, distribution, supply chain, filtration, industrial products, or global business operations.
• Familiarity with enterprise architecture frameworks and practices such as TOGAF, capability mapping, application portfolio management, reference architecture development, and architecture review boards.
• Experience with cloud platforms, data platforms, analytics environments, integration platforms, and modern application delivery models.
• Experience influencing process standardization across regions, functions, or business units while supporting local business requirements where justified.
• Bachelor’s degree in information systems, computer science, business, engineering, or a related field; advanced degree or relevant certifications preferred.

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