Senior Enterprise Application Architect

Job Description

Join a top-tier, globally scaled organization where enterprise technology plays a central role in how the business operates and evolves. This is a highly visible architecture position with meaningful influence over how business-critical applications are designed, integrated, governed, and modernized across a complex enterprise environment.

This is not an infrastructure-focused or purely strategic architecture role. We're seeking someone who combines enterprise-level thinking with hands-on solution architecture and can independently establish architectural direction, standards, and practical solutions.

What you'll do

• Shape enterprise application architecture, defining current-state, future-state, and transitional solutions across complex business systems.
• Establish architecture standards and governance, including reference architectures, reusable design patterns, and decision frameworks.
• Partner directly with engineering teams on logical application design, integrations, data flows, and scalable solutions.
• Guide enterprise technology decisions across SaaS, ERP, Microsoft, and integration-heavy environments.
• Embed security and compliance into application architecture, including identity, access controls, and data protection.
• Drive modernization and influence stakeholders, identifying capability gaps, defining roadmaps, and guiding cross-functional decisions.

What we're looking for

• 8+ years of application or enterprise architecture experience, ideally within large, complex organizations.
• Proven experience personally designing enterprise application solutions and establishing architecture standards, rather than simply working within existing frameworks.
• Broad exposure to enterprise business applications, including SaaS, ERP/HCM, CRM, ITSM, and integration platforms.
• Recent hands-on architecture experience involving application design, APIs, system integrations, data flows, and security controls.
• Ability to balance enterprise-wide strategy with practical engineering delivery and influence decisions across teams.

Relevant technologies: Azure, M365, SharePoint, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Workday, Oracle, NetSuite, MuleSoft, Dell Boomi, and related SaaS/PaaS platforms. Experience across multiple enterprise technologies is more important than expertise in every product.

Experience within large financial services, insurance, healthcare, professional services, or similarly complex environments is particularly attractive.

Not the right fit if your background is primarily:

• Cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or DevOps.
• Custom software development without broader enterprise business-application architecture.
• High-level enterprise architecture or governance without recent hands-on solution design.

Additional details

• Employment: Full-time, direct hire
• Location: Houston, TX
• Schedule: Hybrid, Tuesday-Thursday onsite (3 days/week)
• Compensation: $195,000-$220,000 base + performance bonus (8-15%+)