ERP Solution Architect (D365) - Template and Governance

CECO Environmental; Addison (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

CECO Environmental seeks an ERP Solution Architect to lead end-to-end ERP solution designs across projects, ensuring scalable, integrated, and CECO-standard implementations. You will guide Functional Leads, architects, and partners, and continuously refine CECO's D365 template to enable reusable, consistent deployments.

The role emphasizes governance, stakeholder management, and delivery quality across ERP programs, with a focus on Finance, Supply Chain, and Manufacturing processes.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of ERP implementation, enhancement, and business applications experience.
• 7+ years of hands-on experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations (D365 F&O) or equivalent ERP platform experience.
• Experience acting as a Solution Architect, Lead Functional Consultant, Solution Lead, or Architecture Lead on ERP implementation projects.
• Experience leading solution design across multiple ERP functional areas such as Finance, Supply Chain, Procurement, Inventory, Manufacturing, Planning, Warehouse Management, Project Operations, or related processes.
• Experience guiding or supporting Functional Leads, business analysts, consultants, or project team members without direct people management authority.
• Experience reviewing and governing solution designs produced by internal teams and external implementation partners.
• Experience supporting large-scale ERP implementations, rollouts, acquisitions, migrations, or transformation programs.
• Strong understanding of integration points between business processes, systems, data, controls, reporting, and operational support.
• Strong stakeholder management, facilitation, negotiation, and influencing skills.
• Ability to communicate complex solution concepts clearly to executive, business, functional, and technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Own the overall quality and integrity of ERP solution designs across assigned projects and initiatives.
• Provide architecture guidance to ERP Functional Leads, technical teams, business stakeholders, and implementation partners.
• Review and validate proposed solutions to ensure they are scalable, supportable, integrated, and aligned with CECO standards.
• Establish and maintain practical design principles, solution standards, and governance expectations for ERP projects.
• Evaluate solution options and recommend approaches that balance business value, operational fit, complexity, risk, cost, and long-term maintainability.
• Ensure project-level design decisions support CECO's broader ERP direction and do not create unnecessary debt or issues.
• Lead the ongoing development and refinement of CECO's D365 template, including standard processes, configuration principles, integration patterns, controls, reporting expectations, and reusable deliverables.
• Partner with Functional Leads to confirm project solutions align with the CECO template and deviations are justified and approved.
• Identify opportunities to simplify, standardize, and strengthen the template for future projects.
• Maintain alignment between the ERP template, business process design, data standards, testing approach, deployment practices, and long-term support model.
• Help define core template vs local variation vs approved exception or future roadmap.
• Collaborate with business leaders to understand needs, facilitate solution discussions, and communicate impacts to diverse stakeholders.

Skills

Solution Architect

ERP governance

Stakeholder management

Communication

Leadership without authority

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, Finance, Supply Chain, Business Administration, or related field

Tools

Microsoft Dynamics 365 F&O

Azure DevOps

Job description

CECO Environmental seeks an ERP Solution Architect to lead end-to-end ERP solution designs across projects, ensuring scalable, integrated, and CECO-standard implementations. You will guide Functional Leads, architects, and partners, and continuously refine CECO's D365 template to enable reusable, consistent deployments.

The role emphasizes governance, stakeholder management, and delivery quality across ERP programs, with a focus on Finance, Supply Chain, and Manufacturing processes.