Remote Enterprise Label Architect - Global Standardization

Gilder Search Group; Cleveland (OH); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Wright Technical Services, on behalf of an Ohio-based global industrial technology and manufacturing company, seeks an experienced Enterprise Label Architect to lead the design, standardization, and governance of a global label printing platform.

You will define the Enterprise Label Architecture, establish template governance, and design integrations between SAP, MES, TekLynx, CodeSoft, RFID, printers, and shop-floor systems to ensure correct labels at the right time.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Computer Science, or related discipline.
• 8+ years of experience in manufacturing systems architecture, industrial automation, MES, SAP, or related manufacturing technology environments.
• 5+ years of experience designing and implementing enterprise label printing solutions.
• Hands-on experience with TekLynx, CodeSoft, Sentinel Manager.
• Experience integrating labeling solutions with ERP and MES systems.
• Strong understanding of manufacturing processes, packaging operations, traceability, and shop-floor automation.
• Experience designing highly available production systems across multiple manufacturing facilities.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the global label printing architecture across manufacturing facilities.
• Develop architectural standards for label generation, routing, printer management, template governance, and data integration.
• Establish long-term design principles supporting global scalability, supportability, and operational resilience.
• Create enterprise standards for label lifecycle management, version control, approvals, and deployment.
• Lead development of global label template standards within CodeSoft and TekLynx.
• Define reusable label components, naming conventions, data structures, and template governance processes.
• Ensure compliance with product identification, regulatory, quality, traceability, and customer labeling requirements.
• Govern change control processes associated with label modifications and new product introductions.
• Design and deliver integrations between SAP, MES platforms, TekLynx, CodeSoft, scanners, RFID devices, and printing infrastructure.
• Define master data requirements and data flow architecture supporting real-time label generation.
• Establish source-of-truth principles for all label content and manufacturing transactions.
• Ensure architecture supports automated validation, print controls, traceability, auditability, and future digital manufacturing initiatives.
• Partner with implementation teams during pilot and rollout activities.
• Conduct site assessments and identify local process variations requiring standardization.
• Create repeatable deployment frameworks supporting global expansion.
• Provide technical leadership during testing, commissioning, hypercare, and stabilization activities.
• Design solutions supporting end-to-end traceability across WIP, finished goods, containers, pallets, QA release, rework, and salvage processes.
• Ensure architecture supports barcode, RFID, vision validation, and audit trail requirements.
• Develop standards for controlled reprints, operator accountability, exception handling, and security governance.
• Support quality, warranty, regulatory, and customer compliance objectives.
• Serve as primary technical lead for TekLynx, CodeSoft, printer manufacturers, RFID technologies, and related solution providers.
• Evaluate hardware and software solutions to support standardization goals.
• Drive vendor design reviews and technical governance processes.

Skills

Communication

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Architecture design

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Systems / Engineering / Manufacturing Engineering / CS

Tools

TekLynx

CodeSoft

Sentinel Manager

Job description

Wright Technical Services, on behalf of an Ohio-based global industrial technology and manufacturing company, seeks an experienced Enterprise Label Architect to lead the design, standardization, and governance of a global label printing platform.

You will define the Enterprise Label Architecture, establish template governance, and design integrations between SAP, MES, TekLynx, CodeSoft, RFID, printers, and shop-floor systems to ensure correct labels at the right time.