Enterprise Architect

Hunter Fan Company is seeking a hands-on Enterprise Architect to help establish, document, and govern the technology standards that support our IT organization. This role will focus primarily on applications and data architecture, with additional responsibility for reliability, resiliency, integration patterns, automation opportunities, and alignment with security best practices.
This is not a people management role. The ideal candidate is a practical architect who can work directly with IT teams to understand the current state, document systems and integrations, define standards, identify gaps, and help guide future-state decisions. This person will play a key role in improving consistency, reducing technical debt, supporting change management discipline, and creating a more scalable architecture foundation across the enterprise.
This role will also support process improvement and automation efforts by leveraging process mining insights and robotic process automation opportunities to improve standardization, reduce manual work, and strengthen operational efficiency across IT-supported processes.
The Enterprise Architect will report into IT and will work closely across the IT organization, including application, infrastructure, data, service management, security, integration, and automation teams.

Key Responsibilities

Architecture Standards & Governance

Define, document, and maintain enterprise architecture standards across applications, data, integrations, automation, and supporting technology platforms.

Establish practical governance processes to ensure architecture standards are consistently applied across projects, enhancements, system changes, automation efforts, and technology decisions.

Partner with IT leadership to align architecture standards with ITIL-based processes, including change management, incident management, problem management, release management, and configuration management.

Review proposed system, integration, data, and automation changes for alignment with established standards.

Help create lightweight but effective architecture review processes that improve quality without slowing delivery unnecessarily.

Current-State Documentation

Lead the documentation of Hunter Fan's current-state application and data architecture.

Create and maintain architecture artifacts such as application inventories, system context diagrams, integration maps, data flow diagrams, interface documentation, process documentation, ownership models, and technology standards.

Identify undocumented systems, integrations, manual processes, automation dependencies, and technical risks.

Partner with IT teams to build a shared understanding of how systems, data, integrations, workflows, and automations interact across the environment.

Ensure documentation remains accurate, accessible, and useful for IT operations, support, planning, onboarding, automation governance, and change management.

Application & Data Architecture

Evaluate application architecture across enterprise systems and recommend improvements to standardization, maintainability, scalability, and supportability.

Support data architecture standards, including data ownership, system-of-record alignment, integration patterns, reporting dependencies, and data movement between systems.

Partner with data, application, and integration teams to reduce duplication, improve consistency, and strengthen data reliability.

Help define best practices for application lifecycle management, system documentation, data flows, interface design, and platform usage.

Process Improvement & Automation

Use process mining tools, methods, and insights to document current-state workflows, identify bottlenecks, analyze process performance, and uncover opportunities for standardization and improvement.

Partner with IT teams to identify opportunities for robotic process automation and other workflow automation solutions.

Help define standards and governance for automation design, documentation, ownership, support, monitoring, and change management.

Ensure automation opportunities align with enterprise architecture standards, data governance expectations, security requirements, and ITIL-based change management practices.

Support documentation of automation dependencies, data inputs and outputs, exception handling, business rules, and operational support models.

Evaluate automation opportunities for scalability, maintainability, risk, and long-term fit within the broader technology architecture.

Reliability, Resiliency & Risk Reduction

Assess critical applications, integrations, data flows, workflows, and automations for reliability, resiliency, supportability, and operational risk.

Help identify single points of failure, undocumented dependencies, manual workarounds, fragile integration patterns, and automation risks.

Recommend architecture improvements that reduce operational risk and improve system stability.

Partner with IT operations and support teams to improve readiness for incidents, changes, releases, automation failures, and business-critical events.

Roadmap & Future-State Planning

Support the development of technology roadmaps for applications, data, integrations, automation, and architecture standards.

Identify opportunities to rationalize applications, simplify integrations, reduce technical debt, improve automation maturity, and improve long-term scalability.

Provide practical architecture guidance for new projects, vendor evaluations, system upgrades, automation opportunities, and platform decisions.

Balance current-state realities with future-state architecture direction.

Collaboration

Work closely with IT teams across applications, infrastructure, data, security, service management, integration, support, and automation.

Facilitate architecture discussions and translate technical complexity into clear recommendations.

Serve as a trusted technical advisor to IT leadership and project teams.

Promote consistency, documentation discipline, architecture awareness, and governance across the IT organization.

Required Qualifications

7+ years of experience in enterprise architecture, solution architecture, application architecture, data architecture, or a related IT architecture role.

Strong hands-on experience documenting current-state technology environments, including applications, integrations, data flows, workflows, automations, and system dependencies.

Experience defining and implementing architecture standards, governance processes, or technical design review practices.

Strong understanding of enterprise application architecture, integration patterns, data movement, and system lifecycle management.

Experience working in environments with multiple enterprise systems, integrations, reporting platforms, automation tools, and operational dependencies.

Familiarity with ITIL concepts and IT service management processes, especially change management.

Experience with process mining tools, methods, or initiatives to analyze process performance, identify bottlenecks, document current-state workflows, and support process improvement.

Experience with robotic process automation, including identifying automation opportunities, documenting automation requirements, supporting bot design, or governing RPA solutions.

Ability to work across technical teams and influence standards without direct management authority.

Strong written and visual documentation skills, including the ability to create clear diagrams, standards, inventories, process flows, automation documentation, and architecture artifacts.

Practical, hands-on approach with the ability to move between strategy, documentation, analysis, governance, and execution.

Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to identify architecture gaps, risks, automation opportunities, and opportunities for simplification.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with Infor LN or similar ERP platforms.

Experience with Microsoft Azure.

Experience with Power BI or enterprise reporting platforms.

Experience with ServiceNow or other ITSM platforms.

Experience with Shopify or ecommerce platforms.

Experience with EDI, integration platforms, APIs, middleware, or file-based integration patterns.

Experience with process mining platforms such as Celonis, UiPath Process Mining, Microsoft Process Mining, SAP Signavio, or similar tools.

Experience with RPA platforms such as UiPath, Automation Anywhere, Microsoft Power Automate, Blue Prism, or similar tools.

Familiarity with SAML, identity management, access management, or authentication patterns.

Familiarity with common security frameworks and how they influence application, data, and automation architecture.

Experience in manufacturing, consumer products, distribution, retail, or supply chain-oriented environments.

Experience creating application inventories, architecture repositories, CMDB-related documentation, integration maps, process maps, automation inventories, or enterprise technology standards.

Ideal Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate is a hands-on architect who enjoys bringing structure to complex environments. They are comfortable digging into system details, asking questions, documenting what exists today, and helping teams agree on better standards going forward.

They should be practical rather than theoretical. This person should be able to create clear documentation, identify risk, recommend standards, and help IT teams improve consistency across applications, data, integrations, automation, and change processes.

This role is best suited for someone who can influence through credibility, collaboration, and clear communication rather than through formal authority. They should be comfortable working across IT teams and helping establish the standards, documentation, and governance needed to make technology more reliable, scalable, and supportable.

Success in This Role Looks Like

Within the first 6-12 months, this person will help Hunter Fan Company:

Build a clear and accurate current-state view of key applications, integrations, data flows, workflows, and automations.

Establish architecture standards for applications, data, integrations, automation, and documentation.

Improve alignment between architecture decisions and ITIL processes such as change management.

Identify high-risk systems, integrations, manual processes, automation dependencies, and undocumented workflows that need better documentation or resiliency planning.

Create repeatable architecture review practices for IT projects, system changes, integration changes, and automation initiatives.

Improve consistency, transparency, and decision-making across the IT organization.

Support the identification of process mining and RPA opportunities that reduce manual work, strengthen controls, and improve operational efficiency