Job Description

Principal Enterprise Architect – Commercial Applications

Purpose

Lead enterprise architecture for Commercial and customer-facing digital capabilities across Sales, Trade Promotion, Key Account Management, Customer Engagement, Commercial Analytics, EDI, and related enterprise integrations.

This role will define current-state, transition-state, and target-state architecture; guide platform modernization; support application rationalization; and ensure technology investments align with business capability needs across Commercial, Marketing, Product, Data, Supply Chain, Customer Service, Finance, and Enterprise Technology teams.

Key Responsibilities

Business Architecture

- Partner with Commercial, Marketing, Product, Data, Supply Chain, Finance, Customer Service, and Technology stakeholders to translate business strategy into enterprise technology capabilities.
- Define and maintain business capability maps, value streams, and capability-to-application alignment across Commercial and Digital platforms.
- Identify capability gaps, overlaps, duplication, and modernization opportunities across the Commercial technology landscape.
- Support capability-based planning and investment prioritization for Commercial, CRM, EDI, Trade Promotion, Forecasting, Analytics, and integration platforms.

Architecture Strategy

- Define current-state, transition-state, and target-state architecture for Commercial and Digital applications.
- Develop multiyear technology roadmaps aligned to business priorities, enterprise standards, and transformation programs.
- Establish architecture principles, reference architectures, and reusable patterns for Commercial platforms, EDI, data,



and integration capabilities.
- Support strategic planning, investment decisions, and portfolio prioritization.
- Provide architecture leadership for platform modernization, simplification, and transformation initiatives.

Portfolio Ownership

Own architecture direction for platforms and capabilities including:

- CRM and Account Management
- Salesforce ecosystem, including TPM, KAM, and CRM capabilities
- Trade Promotion Management
- Sales Forecasting and Planning platforms
- EDI platforms and B2B customer/vendor integration capabilities
- Customer Master and Commercial Data platforms
- Commercial Analytics and Reporting platforms
- ERP integration touchpoints
- Related SaaS, data, middleware, API, cloud, and enterprise integration platforms

Transformation & Modernization

- Drive application rationalization and simplification across the Commercial and Digital technology landscape.
- Define transition architectures and phased migration roadmaps for legacy modernization.
- Support ERP, Salesforce, EDI, analytics, and commercial platform transformation initiatives.
- Identify opportunities to reduce technology duplication, improve data quality, simplify integration complexity, and enhance business agility.
- Guide modernization of legacy integrations, including batch,



file-based, EDI, middleware, API, event-driven, and cloud-native integration patterns.

Data, EDI & Integration Architecture

- Define architecture for Customer Master, Commercial Data, Trade Promotion Data, Forecasting Data, Account Data, EDI transaction data, and Analytics Data.
- Guide enterprise integration strategy across APIs, events, batch, middleware, EDI, managed file transfer, data lake, SaaS, and cloud-native integration patterns.
- Define and govern B2B integration patterns for customers, distributors, retailers, brokers, and external partners.
- Provide architecture guidance for EDI transactions such as purchase orders, order acknowledgements, invoices, advance ship notices, remittance advice, product/catalog data, and related commercial documents.
- Ensure data and integration designs support scalability, reliability, security, compliance, monitoring, traceability, and operational resilience.
- Partner with Integration, Data, Security, Infrastructure, ERP, and Engineering teams to ensure end-to-end architecture quality.

Governance

- Lead architecture reviews, solution design reviews, and design governance forums.
- Review and approve solution architectures for alignment with enterprise standards.
- Create and maintain architecture decision records, standards, patterns, and technology assessments.
- Govern architecture decisions across Commercial platforms, Salesforce, ERP integrations, EDI, data platforms, and analytics solutions.
- Promote reusable, scalable, secure, and well-governed architecture patterns across the enterprise.

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