Principal Enterprise Architect, Strategic Initiatives - ERP Program

The Sherwin-Williams Company; Cleveland (OH); Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

The Sherwin-Williams Company seeks a Principal Enterprise Architect, Strategic Initiatives to own the architecture for its largest multi-year transformation programs, starting with cloud ERP. The role oversees end-to-end architecture, data flows, and integration patterns across ERP, warehouse, transportation, and finance systems.

The incumbent will maintain current-state architectures, define target-state roadmaps, and coordinate with enterprise platforms while guiding cross-workstream design

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or IT or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 15+ years in technology with leadership in architecture.
• 5+ years hands-on software or systems engineering.
• 8+ years in architecture or deep technical leadership roles.
• Lead architect on at least one full-lifecycle Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP or SCM program.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end architecture for ERP core, boundary apps and data flows.
• Maintain current-state architecture across releases and waves.
• Define target and transition architectures for remaining waves.
• Produce roadmaps with cost, risk, and dependencies for steering.
• Own integration and data-conversion architecture for ERP program.
• Review designs for conformance to enterprise standards.
• Own non-functional architecture: performance, resilience, operability.
• Connect initiative to enterprise platforms and retire legacy systems.
• Chair steering/design authority forums and resolve conflicts.
• Mentor Solution & Domain Architects to avoid single dependency.

Skills

Leadership

Architecture

Enterprise-scale

Stakeholder management

Cloud ERP understanding

Integration concepts

Roadmap governance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Information Technology

Tools

Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP

Oracle Integration Cloud

Informatica

Middleware concepts

Job description

The Principal Enterprise Architect, Strategic Initiatives is the architecture owner for the company's largest multi-year business transformation programs, starting with the cloud ERP program replacing legacy ERP and boundary systems region by region, in waves. The role owns the end-to-end architecture of the initiative: the target state, the integration and data architecture that connects the ERP core to warehouse, transportation, labeling, plant, master data and finance systems, and the current-state architecture of every release and wave. It is the architecture voice in the program's steering and design forums and the counterpart to the system integrators. The role is hands-on: it keeps the architecture current, reviews designs, settles cross-workstream conflicts and produces the roadmap options leadership decides on.

• Own the end-to-end architecture of the initiative: the ERP core, the boundary applications (warehouse, transportation, labeling, plant and quality, master data, tax, banking, EDI) and the integrations and data flows between them, across order-to-cash, source-to-pay, plan-to-produce and record-to-report
• Maintain the current-state architecture for every release and wave, version-controlled, so that the process, application and master-data changes from each deployment and retrofit are visible to the program, the business and the architecture community
• Own the target state and transition architecture for the remaining waves and regions: what moves when, what runs in parallel, what retires, and the global-template versus local-variant decisions
• Produce the roadmap options leadership decides on: sequence, pause, accelerate and consolidate scenarios with cost, risk, benefit and dependencies laid out for the steering committee
• Own integration and data-conversion architecture for the program: integration patterns between the cloud ERP and boundary systems, conversion and migration approach, master data flows and cut-over design, within enterprise integration and data standards
• Review solution designs from internal teams and system integrators for conformance to the program architecture and enterprise standards, and hold the integrators to it
• Own the non-functional architecture: performance, resilience, hypercare readiness and operability of the end-to-end flow, and the remediation plan when a release falls short
• Connect the initiative to the enterprise: align with the Principal Portfolio and Practice Architects so the program reuses enterprise platforms and retires legacy systems rather than adding to the landscape
• Serve as the architecture member of the program's steering and design authority forums, and the escalation point for cross-workstream architecture conflicts
• Build the bench: transfer program architecture knowledge to Solution & Domain Architects so the initiative never again depends on one person

This is a remote position.

This position is not eligible for sponsorship for work authorization now or in the future, including conversion to H1-B visa.

Job duties include contact with other employees and access confidential and proprietary information and/or other items of value, and such access may be supervised or unsupervised. The Company therefore has determined that a review of criminal history is necessary to protect the business and its operations and reputation and is necessary to protect the safety of the Company's staff, employees, and business relationships.

Must be eighteen years or older

Minimum Qualifications:

• Must be at least 18 years of age
• Must be legally authorized to work in the country of employmentwithout now or in the future requiring sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., OPT, CPT, H1B, EB-1, etc.)
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Information Technology, or in lieu of a degree, at least 18 years of experience in technology delivery
• 15+ years in technology, including 5+ years of hands-on software or systems engineering and 8+ years in architecture or deep technical leadership roles
• Lead architect on at least one full-lifecycle, multi-wave Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP or SCM program at enterprise scale (Financials, Procurement, Order Management, Supply Chain Planning, Manufacturing, Inventory), through go-live and hypercare. Advisory-only program experience does not qualify
• Deep knowledge of the boundary landscape around a cloud ERP: warehouse management, transportation management, labeling, plant and quality systems, master data management, tax and banking, and the integration patterns that connect them
• Hands-on experience with ERP integration and data conversion: Oracle Integration Cloud or equivalent middleware, Informatica or equivalent conversion tooling, master data flows and cut-over design
• Experience with multi-region rollouts: global template design, local variants, retrofits to earlier waves and version control of the architecture by release
• Track record of producing roadmap and scenario material for a steering committee and defending it, and of holding system integrators to an architecture

Preferred Qualifications:

• TOGAF Level 2, CISSP, CEAP, CSA, CSEA

Travel: 10-15%