Enterprise Architect – Supply Chain (Manufacturing & R&D) – Contractor

Enterprise Architect – Supply Chain (Manufacturing and R&D) – Contractor

Kaizen Analytix LLC, an analytics services company, is seeking an Enterprise Architect contractor with experience in Supply Chain. Responsibilities and job requirements are below. This role requires an estimated 40 hours/week commitment for approximately 6 months.

This role will create and promote Supply Chain strategies for enterprises including business architecture, application rationalization strategy, innovation, and growth opportunities, promote technical roadmaps to modernize, enhance, and support the application set of their business partners.

This role will strategize with business and technology stakeholders to define future-state business capabilities and requirements, and translate into transitional and target state architectures, and roadmaps. It also assumes helping, coaching, consulting, and mentoring delivery teams.

Duties And Responsibilities

• Drive EA activities with a ‘business outcome’ lens
• Build and evolve a business technology strategy in Supply Chain including the strategic roadmap for IT systems
• Lead development of IT strategies and roadmaps to drive investments in enterprise capabilities
• Establish application and technology portfolio management processes and tools to provide transparency and reduce technical debt
• Communicate technical roadmaps to align IT priorities with business partner needs
• Identify opportunities to digitize business processes and experience with internal innovation teams
• Lead architecture governance, technology standards processes and reference architecture development
• Evaluate business, information, application, and technology views of the solutions and identify risks
• Remain intimate and knowledgeable on cloud technologies and cloud and hybrid cloud frameworks
• Monitor new technological advances in application development and information technologies
• Partner with business and technology leaders to understand and translate business objectives into technological solutions
• Define and develop audit and review checklists ensuring compliance to enterprise standards
• Define and improve architecture processes and artifacts
• Contribute to peer reviews, technical audits, and technology standards
• Collaborate with and mentor other enterprise and solution architects
• Partner with product and service vendor partner
• Functional knowledge of Supply Chain including but not limited to IBP, Logistics, Warehousing.
• Hands on experience architecting solutions in Supply chain
• Collaborate with business and technology stakeholders to understand business needs, define future-state business capabilities, and establish a technical vision for the SC domain
• Develop and promote technical roadmaps to modernize, enhance, and support the application set of SC business domain
• Own and be responsible for a cohesive technology landscape for SC business domain, within the framework of our Enterprise Architecture
• Is engaged at all levels of the SDLC to oversee and guide technology processes and implementation of solutions
• Provide architectural leadership to the delivery teams, either formally or informally
• Provide architectural leadership on multiple complex projects and business technologies
• Research current and emerging technology, and engage with other architects to innovate in a risk appropriate manner to accelerate corporate growth
• Provide support to management on build vs buy analysis and decisions
• Serve as the architecture lead on large projects identifying gaps and designing ecosystem components
• Ensure solutions are fit for purpose and aligned with the organization’s reference architecture
• Support IT leadership in financial planning and timing of solution delivery
• Mentor and coach others and provide input on performance evaluations
• Contribute to maturing EA practice

Skills & Experience

• BA/BS in Computer Science or related field or an equivalent combination of education and/or experience
• 5-7 years of progressive experience as an Enterprise architect in Supply Chain
• 4-6 years of experience in other technical roles such as solution architect
• Demonstrated experience architecting solutions in Supply Chain
• Strong knowledge of modern data management concepts and architectures
• Working knowledge of IoT architecture patterns
• Working knowledge of security controls and basic security architecture patterns and practices
• Proven capabilities to understand the business drivers and risks, explain complex technical concepts