Senior Enterprise Architect

🕒 May 1

🌾 North Dakota – Remote

🌾 North Dakota – Remote

💵 $169k - $230k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

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Border States

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1952

🤝 B2B

B2B • Construction • Utilities

Border States is a company that supplies products and services to the construction, industrial, and utility markets. It has been recognized as the 6th largest independent electrical distributor in the United States and is known for its employee-owned culture, which emphasizes accountability, customer service, and responsiveness. With a network of branch offices serving 31 states, Border States is committed to solving business challenges and seizing new opportunities in the rapidly evolving electrical distribution industry.

📋 Description

• Partners with business and technology leaders to define enterprise architecture direction and ensure major initiatives reinforce business process performance, platform coherence, and long term scalability. • Defines and operates enterprise architecture standards, guardrails, and exception processes in coordination with the VP of Digital Transformation, CIO, Security, and domain leaders. • Provides thought leadership in modern architecture principles, technology modernization, and enterprise wide architectural coherence. • Evaluates SaaS platforms, vendors, and major solution designs for capability fit, integration complexity, identity and data implications, scalability, total cost of ownership, and long term portfolio alignment. • Develops and maintains architecture artifacts—including logical, business, integration, and functional diagrams—to support engineering, applications, and security teams. • Defines enterprise transition roadmaps for ERP, integration, data, analytics, and adjacent platforms, emphasizing clean core principles, technical debt reduction, and delivery sequencing. • Leads architecture reviews and recommendations for major initiatives, platform changes, new technologies, and cross domain designs, ensuring alignment with approved guardrails. • Advises senior leaders on tradeoffs involving reuse, scalability, complexity, risk, technical debt, and long term enterprise fit. • Translates current state capabilities into future state architecture and roadmap decisions in partnership with business, process, and domain leaders. • Establishes and governs ERP architecture guardrails for SAP modernization, including clean core principles, extensibility boundaries, and integration constraints. • Defines and governs enterprise integration standards, including API first patterns, event driven architecture, canonical data principles, observability, resilience, and lifecycle management. • Defines enterprise standards for master data ownership, stewardship models, domain boundaries, and governance mechanisms, and supports trustworthy analytics, certified KPIs, and semantic consistency. • Operates a fast, documented architecture decision and exception process and ensures governance remains lightweight, pragmatic, and delivery focused. • Defines architecture criteria for application portfolio rationalization, integration simplification, and technical debt visibility, and influences build/buy/reuse decisions through a business capability and enterprise value lens. • Leads a federated architecture operating model and Architecture CoE, raising architecture quality across domains through early engagement, coaching, and cross functional alignment.

🎯 Requirements

• 4 Year STEM Degree or equivalent work experience required. • 12+ years of progressive experience across enterprise architecture, solution architecture, or platform architecture, including significant cross-domain responsibility. • Demonstrated experience shaping enterprise architecture decisions across ERP, integration, applications, and data. • Proven success guiding ERP modernization or large enterprise platform transformation in a complex operating environment. • Strong experience with modern integration patterns, including APIs, event-driven architecture, service reuse, observability, and lifecycle management. • Strong fluency in data architecture, master data governance concepts, and analytics enablement. • Demonstrated ability to define architecture standards and decision processes that accelerate delivery rather than slow it down. • Strong business acumen and the ability to connect architecture decisions to operating model, risk, cost, and growth outcomes. • Experience in wholesale distribution, industrial distribution, manufacturing distribution, or another branch-heavy, inventory-intensive, multi-site business. • Experience with SAP S/4HANA environments and clean-core governance. • Experience working in a federated architecture model with domain architects or embedded architecture leadership. • Experience with post-merger integration patterns, portfolio rationalization, or enterprise platform simplification. • Familiarity with formal architecture frameworks and structured architecture description methods; practical outcomes matter more than certification alone.

🏖️ Benefits

• Health, Dental and Vision Benefits • Accident, Critical Illness, Hospital Indemnity • FSA & HSA • Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) • Disability Benefits • 401(k) Retirement Plan • Life Insurance • Employee Assistance Program • Paid Holidays • Paid Volunteer Time • Personal Leave time and more!