Enterprise Architect (Dallas, TX)

Paladin Consulting is currently hiring an Enterprise Architect to join our team working onsite at our client's office located in Dallas, TX.

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Job Title: Enterprise Architect
Work Location: Dallas, TX; 3 day onsite, 2 days remote
Duration: Long-term contract
Education/Experience Required: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems (IS), or another relevant academic discipline. A Master's degree is preferred.

Job Description:
Seeking an Enterprise/Solution/Infrastructure Architect. This position is not eligible for International Relocation Program benefits. Essentially this environment is a greenfield, so there is immense opportunity to implement broad enterprise architecture principles, processes, and strategies to mature the practice as an Organizational Capability. Candidate should understand the unique challenges of being a disruptive change agent and have an innate ability to develop trust with stakeholders, internal information technology teams, and leadership.

Responsibilities :

• Completed at least 1-2 SAP projects.
• Apply a customer experience lens to Enterprise Architect (EA) activities.
• Build the long-term strategic roadmap for all IT systems architecture.
• Circulate technical roadmaps to align IT priorities with business partner needs.
• Demonstrate digital opportunities and partner with internal innovation teams.
• Develop and maintain policies, standards, and guidelines to ensure that a consistent framework is applied across the company.
• Develop application and infrastructure rationalization framework to reduce technical debt.
• Remain intimate and knowledgeable on cloud technologies and cloud and hybrid cloud frameworks.
• Lead the design and modeling of tactical architectures for the delivery, development, and support of projects.
• Manage and facilitate a EA review board/council to evaluate project proposals for architectural fit.
• Monitor new technological advances in application development and information technologies.
• Participate in digital strategy decisions and provide digital business model consulting within IT Teams.
• Partner with business and technology subject matter experts to elicit and translate business requirements into technological solutions.
• Partner with Information Security to ensure architecture aligns with security strategy and policies.
• Partner with other Solution Architects to provide a consensus-based scalable and adaptable architectural solution.
• Remain active in external networks to proactively integrate new technologies as business needs change.
• Actively participate in the development of the functional area/digital global strategy.
• Perform additional responsibilities as requested to achieve business objectives.
• Not only able to articulate the value of product configuration to the senior product line leadership, but also be able to define measurable KPIs and metrics to demonstrate value overtime.
• Office based with travel up to 20% required by land or air. Subject to varying road and weather conditions. Occasional long hours, as well as nights and weekends as needed.

Skills & Qualifications :

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems (IS), or another relevant academic discipline. A Master's degree is preferred.
• SAP eco system experience including SCP.
• A comprehensive knowledge of hardware, software, application, and systems engineering.
• Demonstrated experience with business process and performance modeling, benchmarking, and financial analysis.
• The ability to "think big” and challenge conventional wisdom regarding technology refresh and hype.
• Strong leadership and negotiation skills with business and technical groups.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong project management and organization skills.
• A demonstrated ability to build consensus among many stakeholders.
• The ability to be comfortable with ambiguity and a willingness to take principled bets on new technology.
• The ability to establish, implement, and enforce appropriate IT standards to meet business requirements.
• The ability to build a comprehensive understanding of and strategically connect the needs of multiple business/functional areas.
• The ability to perform all essential job functions of the position with or without accommodations.

For more information or to view other opportunities, visit us at www.paladininc.com.

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